Issue 333 - 28 Oct 2016
An uneasy calm has returned to Dakar after an opposition
demonstration against the presidential family’s alleged oil
industry dealings ended in violent clashes with police on
14 October. Organised by the Front for the Defence of Senegal
(Mankoo Wattu Sénégal) coalition, demonstrators carrying “No
to nepotism over natural resources” placards sought to denounce
what they called “the seizure of oil resources by the family of
President Macky Sall”. The president has come under increasing
pressure over the local dealings of controversial
Romanian/Australian entrepreneur Frank Timis, who employs
presidential brother Aliou Sall.
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