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Senegal's hunger-striking opposition leader Ousmane Sonko was admitted to intensive care at a Dakar hospital after falling ill on Wednesday night, his party said on Thursday. ....
The violence that erupted following the sentencing of opposition politician Ousmane Sonko to two years in prison left 16 people dead and 500 arrested. This reveals deep fractures in Senegalese democracy that has traces to France's colonial past. ....
The outcome of the firebrand oppositionist s trial could transform the face of politics, and may open the way to other contenders, More than two years after he was first charged with raping the masseuse Adji Sarr and then making death threats, Ousmane Sonko, the charismatic leader of the Pastef Les Patriotes party and one of President Macky Sall s most determined opponents, this week finally faced trial after an incendiary build-up to the proceedings. ....