Police use tear gas to disperse protesters in Dakar, Senegalese deputies clash inside parliament



Police use tear gas to disperse protesters in Dakar, Senegalese deputies clash inside parliament

Fresh clashes in Deca between demonstrators and police with officers using tear gas to try and quell the protests on Monday the latest scuffles took place in front of the National Assembly where deputies were debating a controversial constitutional bill they were discussing the six-month postponement of the presidential election which was announced on Saturday

By President macki sell news which protesters say that they will not take lying down at the National Assembly is illegal they are traitors they have betrayed theales people we elected them to the National Assembly to represent us theales people I don’t think that the decisions that come out of the assembly are

Suitable for discussion they are not deputies of the people but deputies of the president the prospect of postponed elections triggered a wave of protests across the capital on Sunday with clashes between demonstrators and the police who made several arrests the government has since restricted mobile internet access in an attempt to temper The

Descent this is the first time since 1963 that a presidential election has been postponed in Sagal a country that has never experienced audat

Police used tear gas on Monday to disperse protesters in Dakar before Senegalese deputies later clashed inside parliament during a debate over a postponement of the country’s presidential election.

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