Senegalese President Macky Sall announced Friday that he would comply with a court order to conduct the country’s presidential election as soon as possible, after he attempted to delay the polls until December. The controversy is just the latest close call for Senegal’s democracy, which has significantly eroded under Sall.
An explosive new court order alleges that former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro oversaw a plot to undermine the public’s faith in the 2022 presidential election, which he lost, and set the stage for a potential coup.
Senegalese President Macky Sall announced on Saturday that he had indefinitely postponed the country’s presidential election, a move the opposition has denounced as an attack on West Africa’s most stable democracy.
The coup that rocked Myanmar three years ago showed just how fragile the country’s democratic transition was, even as its aftermath has shown how resilient the country’s pro-democracy movement remains.