Dakar mayor and opposition coalition leader Barthelemy Dias casts his vote in Senegal’s parliamentary elections. The Senegalese people are electing their deputies as the country’s leaders aim for a resounding majority to see through the promise of ambitious reform that swept them to power eight months ago. IMAGES
Supporters gather to celebrate outside the Dakar home of opposition candidate Ousmane Sonko, as anti-establishment candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye appears ahead of the governing coalition’s former prime minister, Amadou Ba, according to provisional results from individual polling stations broadcast by local media and on social networks. IMAGES
Supporters of opposition candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye celebrate in Dakar as their candidate begins to take a comfortable lead in the first round of Senegal’s presidential election. With vote counting still underway, anti-establishment candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye appearS ahead of the governing coalition’s former prime minister, Amadou Ba, according to provisional results from individual polling
Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko makes his first public appearance in months, greeting and waving at hundreds of supporters in the capital Dakar, a day after his release from prison. Sonko is welcomed by the crowd ahead of a press conference he was due to hold with his deputy, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, who was also
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
Senegalese security forces use tear gas against youths trying to gather in the centre of the capital Dakar to protest a delay of presidential polls. IMAGES
Protesters build barricades in the Senegalese capital Dakar as opposition party supporters and police clashed after President Macky Sall’s announced the indefinite postponement of a presidential election set for February 25. Saturday’s postponement, which came just a day before official campaigning was due to begin, set off a wave of international concern. 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
Rallye-Rekordweltmeister Sebastien Loeb musste bei der Rallye_Dakar einen herben Rückschlag im Kampf um den Gesamtsieg hinnehmen. Beim Franzosen entstand ein Schaden an der Aufhängung, weswegen der 49-Jährige die Wüstenrundfahrt stundenlang pausieren musste. Loeb war anschließend enttäuscht.
