In Senegal, the standoff after the postponement of the presidential election continues. Demonstrations were dispersed by the police on Friday February 9 in several cities.
A second death was announced this Saturday morning in Dakar, after that of Alpha Yero Tounkara, a geography student at Gaston Berger University in Saint-Louis. The Red Cross indicated that it was compiling data from its committees in the different regions to take stock of Friday's clashes. In an interview given to the American press agency AP, President Macky Sall defends his decision to postpone the election.