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Senegals' anti-establishment candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye votes in the presidential election at the Ecole Ndiandiaye polling station in Ndiaganiao. IMAGES
Senegalese vote at a polling station in Dakar to elect a new president in an unpredictable race following three years of turmoil and political crisis. IMAGES TO COMPLETE VIDI34M84EL_EN
Senegalese opposition figure Ousmane Sonko and his second-in-command, presidential candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye, are released from prison ten days before the country's election. Their released sparked an outburst of celebration among thousands of Dakar residents who spontaneously took to the streets of the Senegalese capital. IMAGES
Images of barricades burning in the streets of Dakar. Initial clashes broke out in Dakar, where Senegalese gendarmes used tear gas to disperse hundreds of people who had come to demonstrate against the postponement of the presidential election, before being pelted with stones. IMAGES
Images of damage in the streets of Dakar as supporters of Ousmane Sonko protest his conviction. A court in Senegal sentenced opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, a candidate in the 2024 presidential election, to two years in prison on charges of "corrupting youth" but acquitted him of rape and issuing death threats. IMAGES
Images outside of the Palais de Justice in Dakar, as the appeals trial of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko is due to begin. Sonko, who was accused of defamation, was handed a two-month suspended sentence in the court case at the end of March after a trial his lawyers said would not rule him out of the 2024 presidential election. Sonko's fate is also wrapped up in another case in which he is accused of rape, which he contests. IMAGES
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