After Cameroon and Benin, Emmanuel Macron is in Guinea Bissau.
Last stage of the African tour of the French president.
This is a first for this small Portuguese-speaking country which had never hosted a tricolor head of state.
On the menu of discussions, security in the Sahel, one of the main concerns of ECOWAS, of which Guinea Bissau has just taken over the presidency.
Legislative elections in Senegal will take place this Sunday and in recent weeks, the campaign has been particularly tense between power and the opposition.
The list of the great opposition Yewi Askan Wi in which Ousmane Sonko appears had been dismissed by the Constitutional Council due to an error.
Many voices have been raised to denounce a turn of the screw of power and a democratic decline in the country.
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