Senegal: released, opponent Sonko makes his first public appearance in months. Oumane Sonko, actor in a deadly standoff of more than two years with power, was welcomed by hundreds of supporters on his arrival near a hotel in the capital where the conference was to be held.
Supreme Court, for its part, spared the country a new drama by rejecting on Friday the requests of disqualified presidential candidates, including Karim Wade, who requested the suspension of the decrees setting the date of the election and the duration of the campaign.