Senegal

Incumbent Senegalese President and presidential candidate Abdoulaye Wade greeted supporters during a campaign rally at the Guediawaye stadium in a suburb of the capital, Dakar.

Violent demonstrations against incumbent President Abdoulaye Wade's re-election bid continue in the capital Dakar ahead of presidential elections. Police used teargas to disperse o...

A demonstration took place near to Independence Place called for by leaders of the opposition movement known as M23 demanding the departure of Abdoulaye Wade, the third and current Pres...

Unrest took place between police and those in opposition to the candidacy of outgoing President Wade, and also due to the death of a young man in the neighborhood of Rufisque, with demo...

A third day of clashes erupted outside a mosque in Dakar, after demonstrators said it had been 'profaned' when it was hit by teargas grenades thrown by a police officer a numb...

Riots take a violent turn in Dakar and around the country calling for the departure of President Abdoulaye Wade.

Senegal riot police clashed with rock-throwing protesters, firing teargas and water cannon for the fourth day running as fresh violence hit the capital a week before highly divisive pol...

Demonstrators are defying a government ban on protests to call for the departure of 85-year-old President Abdoulaye Wade, who is running for a third term in the upcoming election.

Citizens face off with police near the site of a recent attack on a mosque. The clashes occurred during a rally called for by two presidential candidates in response to claims of police...

A confrontation took place between demonstrators and police at the gates of Radio Television Senegal as supporters of the M23 movement were prevented from rallying to denounce the candi...

A rally by the movement Marre A Yen demand President Abdoulaye Wade step down from office, and end his bid to run for re-election in the next vote. Dakar, Senegal. 11th February 2012

A march took place of opposition leaders and civil society from the opposition grouping known as the June 23 movement (M23), demanding President Wade leave office and denouncing his can...

The M23 movement organized a rally uniting presidential candidates. Dakar, Senegal. 5th February 2012

The Senegalese Constitutional Court rejects music icon Youssou N'dour's appeal, invalidating his presidential candidacy, declaring 4,000 out of 12,000 signatures invalid, with...

Senegal's opposition group M23 organized a peaceful protest calling for Senegalese to join in prayer in downtown Dakar. The group prays for peace and the ones who died during the v...

Senegal has been a leading example when it comes to Democracies in Africa, Abdoulaye Wade the acting president has allegedly changed the Constitution three times to his advantage in ord...

Protests by students of the Cheikh Anta Diop University take place after the death of student Mamadou Diop. The student was killed by a police car during the M23 demonstrations, after c...

Protesters opposed to President Abdoulaye Wade running for a third term, light street fires in Dakar. Police opened fire with tear gas on demonstrators and left at least one person dead...

Opposition and civil society joined forces against Senegalese leader Abdoulaye Wade pending a decision by the Constitutional Council on the appeal against the validation of his candidac...

Opposition and civil society join forces against Senegalese leader Abdoulaye Wade of the state pending a decision of the Constitutional Council on the appeal against the validation of h...