On late Thursday (Feb. 15), the Constitutional Council urged authorities to hold "the presidential election in the shortest possible time", acknowledging the initial date of February 25th couldn t be kept. In the streets of Dakar, many welcomed the move.
The chairman of the African Union, Senegal's President Macy Sall, told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday that the fighting in Ukraine and Western sanctions had worsened food shortages, and appealed to other countries to ensure grain and.
Some 1.7 billion people worldwide face increased poverty due to a grain blockade caused by the war in Ukraine, amid mass displacement of the country's population.
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