Pre-election tensions reached the Senegalese capital Dakar on Wednesday, where two fierce opponents of power, Ousmane Sonko and Barthélémy Dias, were arrested during clashes reviving the specter of the riots in March.
They were then released.
Details from our correspondent Sarah Sakho.
"Right to a dignified life, right to clean air".
Thousands of Tunisians demonstrated and participated in a general strike on Wednesday in the Sfax region, the day after the death of a protester during a rally against the reopening of a garbage dump.
ECOWAS has received an objection from the head of the Guinean junta.
Mamady Doumbouya rejected outright the West African body's mediation proposal.
ECOWAS had appointed Mohamed Ibn Chambas as special envoy to Guinea.
Malick Diakité's correspondence in Conakry.
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