Senegal blocks TikTok in widening clampdown on dissent

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A power struggle between Pastef party leader Ousmane Sonko and President Macky Sall has led to violent demonstrations. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A power struggle between Pastef party leader Ousmane Sonko and President Macky Sall has led to violent demonstrations at times, most recently on Monday, and damaged Senegal’s reputation as the most stable democracy in West Africa.Niger a week ago.

“The TikTok application is the social network favoured by people with bad intentions to spread hateful and subversive messages,” Mr Moussa Bocar Thiam said in a statement on Wednesday. Another Dakar resident, Mr Makhtar Ndiaga Sarr, said he failed to buy shoes on Tuesday because the Internet was not working and his brother could not send him the money for the purchase.Mr Sonko was charged on Saturday with plotting an insurrection and other offences, and taken into custody.

 

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