High tensions in Dakar after the announcement of the postponement of the presidential election, the mobile Internet access network is cut.
The capital of Senegal is shaken by strong tensions.
Groups of opponents faced the police, particularly outside the Assembly where the gendarmes used tear gas to disperse the crowd.
The authorities cut off the mobile Internet access network on the grounds of limiting “hateful and subversive messages”.
Protesters accuse President Macky Sall of being “a dictator”.
Macky Sall’s decision to postpone the February 25 presidential election has pushed Senegal into the unknown.
ECOWAS, the African Union, the United States and the European Union have expressed their concern.
The Senegalese opposition denounces an authoritarian drift and a maneuver by Macky Sall to avoid an electoral defeat and keep his camp in power.
The current president had indicated his intention not to run again, highlighting a conflict between the Constitutional Council and the Assembly to justify the postponement of the vote.