Highlights: 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.

The opponent Ousmane Sonko made his first public appearance in months in Dakar this Friday, March 15, the day after his release from prison, before speaking to the press with his second,…

Senegal: released, opponent Sonko makes his first public appearance in months

The opponent Ousmane Sonko made his first public appearance in months in Dakar this Friday, March 15, the day after his release from prison, before speaking to the press with his second, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, presidential candidate of the March 24, also released.

The opponent Ousmane Sonko made his first public appearance this Friday in Dakar the day after his release from prison, before speaking to the press with his deputy, Bassirou Diomaye Faye.

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By: RFI with AFP

In a white boubou, 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 Press.

The 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 .

The Court declared these requests “

inadmissible

”.

A difficult to quantify crowd of at least

several thousand jubilant Dakar

residents gathered until late at night, amid songs and dances to celebrate the release of Ousmane Sonko and Bassirou Diomaye Faye, in front of the Cape Manuel prison, along their procession and in front of the home of the first.

The influence of Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Ousmane Sonko

Bassirou Diomaye Faye is a presidential candidate in place of Ousmane Sonko.

Both benefited from an amnesty law adopted last week at the instigation of President Macky Sall to, said the latter, calm minds after three years of tensions, rekindled by a last minute postponement of the presidential election.

After days of conjecture, the law was promulgated and “

it is because it is promulgated that they are out

,” said Yoro Dia, presidential spokesperson.

The spontaneous gathering around them is the largest to have accompanied the candidates, 19 in total, since the launch of the campaign.

It confirms the influence of Bassirou Diomaye Faye and much more of Ousmane Sonko, whose name was on everyone's lips even though he was not a candidate.

Read alsoSenegal: “The fact that Bassirou Diomaye Faye was held in prison amplified the campaign of his supporters”

Senegal: released, opponent Sonko makes his first public appearance in months

Senegal: released, opponent Sonko makes his first public appearance in months

The influence of Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Ousmane Sonko

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