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Senegal capital tense ahead of opposition leader's trial
Sonko's supporters say President Macky Sall is using the judiciary as a means to sideline him for the vote, a charge Sall denies.
Members of the security team of Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko surrounds the vehicle he is travelling in to go to a court appearance in Dakar on March 16, 2023. /AFP
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision
Security forces were deployed in the Senegalese capital Dakar on Thursday ahead of a politically-charged trial of an opposition leader.
Ousmane Sonko is being tried for allegedly defaming a minister, a