Senegal Presidential Election: US urges Senegalese President Sall to restore Senegal’s electoral calendar
The U.S. State Department raised serious concern about Senegal's current political situation.
This decision by President Macky Sall to push back the country’s February 25 election has plunged Senegal into a crisis which has seen three dead amid clashes between protesters and police. As part of the crack down against protests, the mobile internet coverage was also restricted, just as it had been on the day of the parliamentary vote.
Further more to the crackdown of dissemination on social networks of several subversive hate messages that have already provoked violent demonstrations, the mobile data is suspended this Tuesday 13 February, the Ministry of Communication, Telecommunications and Digital Energy said in a statement.
On this regard, The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) which has called on the government to restore the original election timetable, sent a delegation to Dakar to mediate in the crisis.
Also The chairman of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, has urged Senegal to resolve its “political dispute through consultation, understanding and dialogue”.
