20120221 AFP Africa's top envoy arrived in Senegal amid fresh clashes on Tuesday, with the opposition hoping he can talk 85-year-old President Abdoulaye Wade out of seeking a controversial third term in weekend polls.
20120221 AP DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal's government said Monday that one of the candidates vying to unseat the nation's elderly leader in this week's election has recruited a militia in a bid to install chaos and make the country ungovernable.
20120221 AFP Senegal police turned away small groups of opposition protesters Monday after days of riots against President Abdoulaye Wade's bid for a third term.
20120220 AP DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Protesters demanding the departure of Senegal's aging president on Sunday seized control of a three-block stretch in the heart of the capital, erecting barricades and lobbing rocks at police as demonstrations intensified just days before a contentious presidential poll.
20120220 AP DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal's state-owned news agency has reported two more people have been killed in protests including a demonstrator in the regional capital of Kaolack and a young man hit by a rock in a suburb of the capital.
20120220 AFP Senegalese riot police fired volleys of tear gas and rubber bullets at stone-throwing demonstrators after prayers at a mosque in Dakar Sunday, in fresh violence a week ahead of presidential elections.
20120220 AP DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Protesters demanding the departure of Senegal's aging president on Sunday seized control of a three-block stretch in the heart of the capital, erecting barricades and lobbing rocks at police just days before a contentious presidential poll.
20120218 AFP Senegal riot police clashed with rock-throwing protesters Saturday, firing teargas and water cannon for the fourth day running as fresh violence hit the capital a week before highly divisive polls.
20120218 AP DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Riot police fired tear gas on anti-government protesters in the capital as Senegal's security forces wrapped up early voting in a contentious presidential race.
20120218 AFP Violence broke out late Friday in Tivaouane, seat of Senegal's largest Islamic brotherhood the Tidiane, where the mayor's office was burned down after police hurled teargas into a Dakar mosque, the APS news agency reported.
20120218 AP DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegalese riot police fired tear gas Friday at protesters on a main commercial boulevard in the capital, after the country's opposition went ahead with a protest in defiance of a government ban.
20120218 AFP Senegalese police engaged in running battles with protesters firing tear gas and rubber bullets in central Dakar Friday to head off a planned protest against President Abdoulaye Wade's third-term bid.
20120218 AFP Police briefly detained Senegalese opposition presidential candidate Cheikh Bamba Dieye on Friday as he tried to join a protest that had been banned by the authorities, an AFP journalist witnessed.
20120215 AFP Senegal's government has banned an opposition march planned for the centre of Dakar to protest against President Abdoulaye Wade's bid to run for a third term in February polls.
20120215 AFP Senegal's police on Tuesday blocked youths from settling in a square in Dakar where they planned a permanent sit-in to protest President Abdoulaye Wade's bid to run for a third term in February polls.
20120214 AFP Senegal's rapper-led youth movement "Fed Up" said Monday it has called for a permanent sit-in at Obelisk Square in Dakar against President Abdoulaye Wade's highly disputed third term candidacy.
20120213 AFP Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade on Saturday wooed voters in the troubled Casamance with a new peace plan as mobilisation against his disputed third term appeared to run out of steam.
