Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by PRICE Susan
Opposition figure Bassirou Diomaye Faye, a former tax inspector from the Patriots of Senegal party (PASTEF), was sworn into office as Senegal’s new president on April 2 after his historic election on March 24. Following his confirmation, he appointed the party’s high profile leader Ousmane Sonko (…)
, by HAQUE Nicolas
As the 44-year-old is sworn in after a crucial election, we chart the road to victory for Africa’s newest and youngest leader.
Dakar, Senegal – “Finally, we can breathe,” the cashier at the American Food Store supermarket in Dakar said while swiping a pot of Greek yoghurt through checkout. (…)
, by BOBIN Florian, ZEILIG Léo
ROAPE’s Leo Zeilig interviews researcher, writer and activist Florian Bobin on the deepening crisis in Senegal. Bobin describes the repression and bloodshed of the last few years, and the efforts to unseat the president. He analyses the potential for a radical left alternative emerging in the (…)
, by MARTIAL Paul
Unable to win the next elections, the incumbent president of Senegal is attempting yet another manoeuvre to ensure that the radical opposition does not win the presidential election.
True to the motto of African potentates: “You don’t organize an election in order to lose it”, President Macky (…)
, by European Left (EL)
The Party of the European Left (EL) is deeply concerned by the arrest and detention of Coline Fay, a 26-year-old French citizen and environmental and anti-imperialist activist.
Coline Fay was arrested on Friday November 24 for taking part in a peaceful rally on November 17 with 6 other people (…)
, by AW Eugénie Rokhaya, BOBIN Florian, SYLLA Maky Madiba
Eugénie Rokhaya Aw, imprisoned under the regime of Léopold Sédar Senghor, was an active Senegalese left-wing activist who fought clandestinely for the country’s democratisation in the 1970s. More than a year after her passing in July 2022, her testimony sheds light on the struggles of several (…)
, by DIOUF Gnima, GARRIDO María Gómez
The rise of a radical, pan-African left and repression by the liberal powers that be
Senegal has experienced the strongest political crisis in its history.
In fact, since 2021, the political leader of the Pastef party, Oumane Sonko, had been falsely accused of rape. The entire (…)
, par Ouestaf
Sur les chantiers de rénovation et de construction tentaculaires qui se multiplient à Dakar, des Sénégalaises récupèrent les résidus de béton et les graviers, qu’elles trient et revendent. Le site sénégalais “Ouestaf” décrit une ingénieuse économie de subsistance qui fait vivre de nombreuses (…)
, by POPOVICIU Andrei
The European Union is militarizing Africa’s internal borders to curb migration, with little regard for human rights.
When Cornelia Ernst and her delegation arrived at the Rosso border station on a scorching February day, it wasn’t the bustling artisanal marketplace, the thick smog from trucks (…)
Popular protests continue unabated against President Macky Sall’s bid to stay in power by eliminating his rival Ousmane Sonko. They are facing violent repression, but are an opportunity for the Senegalese left.
Ousmane Sonko, Macky Sall’s main opponent, has just been sentenced to two years in (…)
, by SYLLA Ndongo Samba, ZEILIG Léo
Since the start of the month, Senegal has seen major demonstrations, rioting, and violence. In an interview with ROAPE’s Leo Zeilig, Ndongo Sylla explains what is happening. Supporters of opposition leader, Ousmane Sonko, are furious at the regime’s attempt to frustrate next year’s elections by (…)
, by MARTIAL Paul
While Senegal’s opposition won the municipal elections in January 2022, taking control of several major cities, including the capital Dakar, incumbent president Macky Sall is now trying to prevent the opposition repeating its electoral success in the parliamentary elections. A showdown being (…)
, by ABSA Moussa Sene, DIOP Boubacar Boris
As large protests have rocked Senegal, the government has used live fire and militias to crush the movement. A collective of Senegalese artists and academics calls for President Macky Sall to be held accountable for his crimes.
Since the arrest of leading opposition politician Ousmane Sonko (…)
, by BOBIN Florian
The mythification of ‘poet-president’ Léopold Sédar Senghor has blurred our understanding of his real legacy. Recalling that he was both a poet and a president is a fact, but associating both, while refusing to recognize the authoritarianism he displayed, Florian Bobin argues, creates a (…)
, by BOBIN Florian
For nearly fifty years, one figure has embodied revolutionary politics in Senegal: Omar Blondin Diop, a young activist and artist who died in 1973 while imprisoned at Gorée. Our understanding of liberation movements in Africa tends to focus on struggles in colonial settings, yet Florian Bobin (…)
, by FASANO Stefano
On 24 February Macky Sall won a resounding victory in the Senegalese presidential elections. He was re-elected for a second term in office with 58 per cent of the vote thanks to an electoral campaign that shone a spotlight on the massive infrastructure projects completed during his first term : (…)
, by MAMPILLY Zachariah
American musicians were once integral to political activism. The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom is recognised as a seminal moment in American history and a triumph for nonviolent resistance. Harry Belafonte, then a 36-year-old superstar of music, television and film, was at the (…)
, by BRENNER Mark
IN JANUARY, 1999 the Senegalese parliament joined several other African nations imposing a ban on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). At the time of the ban over 700,000 women — approximately twenty percent of the female population — were estimated to have undergone some form of FGM in Senegal. (…)
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