Senegal
1 Jun 2023
A court in Senegal on Thursday sentenced opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, a candidate in the 2024 presidential election, to two years in prison on charges of "corrupting youth" but acquitted him of rape and issuing death threats. It also sentenced Sonko's co-accused, Ndeye Khady Ndiaye, the owner of the beauty salon where Sonko was accused…
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The trial of Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko on rape charges adjourned early Wednesday, with the prosecution calling for a 10-year jail term in a case that has sparked tensions in the West African country. A popular figure among Senegal's huge population of young people, Sonko has branded the trial a political plot aimed at…
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