A Lisbon court ordered Portugal's most high-profile anti-racism activist, Mamadou Ba, on Friday to pay a 2,400 euro ($2,540) fine after finding him guilty of defaming a prominent neo-Nazi. Ba wrote on social media in 2020 that Mario Machado, founder of several extreme-right movements in Portugal, was "one of the main figures in the murder of Alcindo Monteiro", a Black man who was beaten to death in 1995 by skinheads in a wider, violent racist attack. Eleven people were convicted in 1997 over the
, Former Prime Minister Idrissa Seck has beefed up his international lobbying and campaign team by hiring Bruce Fryer, a US advisor for the non-profit Vanguard Africa and Future Pact, a Washington DC lobby outfit, ahead of standing for the presidency in February.
, After President Macky Sall announced in July that he would not seek a third term, 11 contenders for the presidential nomination of his Alliance Pour la République (APR) and the wider ruling Benno Bokk Yakaar (BBY) alliance came forward, before the uncharismatic but competent Amadou Ba, a former finance and foreign minister, was chosen by Sall on 9 September.
, Justice minister Sidiki Kaba – a former head of the International Human Rights Federation – has dismissed critics of the tough crackdown on the protests that followed the conviction of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko.