Senegal: M2D suspends its call for the peaceful demonstration scheduled for Saturday, March 13

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The Movement for the Defense of Democracy has decided to suspend its call to demonstrate peacefully after an exchange with the envoy of the Caliph General of the Murid brotherhood. In a press release, the M2D indicates having "accepted the request for postponement" formulated by the influential religious leader Serigne Mountakha Mbacké. "In return", the M2D indicates having transmitted to the Caliph a memorandum of 10 demands, in particular "the immediate and unconditional release of political prisoners" the "end of the persecution of opponents, including through telephone tapping and espionage ”, or“ publicly recognize the constitutional and moral impossibility ”for the Head of State to run for a third term in the presidential election of 2024.