Senegal remains under tension on Saturday in the aftermath of clashes which left six new dead, bringing to 15 the number of deaths since Thursday and the two-year prison sentence for opponent Ousmane Sonko.
“On June 2, six deaths were recorded, four of them in the Dakar region and two in the Ziguinchor region,” the spokesman for the Minister of the Interior told AFP.
Clashes opposed Friday evening small groups of very mobile young demonstrators to the police in Dakar, in the suburbs of the capital and in the south of the country. No incident had been reported by the Interior Ministry on Saturday afternoon.
Many public and private properties were ransacked, including banks and Auchan stores in the suburbs of Dakar. Burned tires and stones littered the roadway of several streets on Saturday morning.
Several social networks, such as Facebook, WhatsApp or Twitter, are cut, a government measure to stop, according to him, “the dissemination of hateful and subversive messages”.
The army deployed, as the day before, around strategic points. Police and gendarmes are also present in large numbers in the capital.