Macky Sall's non-candidacy opens up the political game as never before. No one in his party has revealed his ambitions, and he has not endorsed any dauphin.
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Tunisians take part in the funeral of a man stabbed to death during a scuffle between residents and migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, in Tunisia's coastal city of Sfax.
Tuesday newspapers in Dakar paid lavish tribute to Sall and many local residents said they believed the country had dodged a bullet.
"I'm so happy that I'm at a loss for words, because all the Senegalese people were waiting for him. He's done something that will always be engraved in our minds. It's a pleasure and an example that Senegal is still setting".
The new investigation sheds light on militias in the Northwest Region that are drawn from the Mbororo community -- Fulani herders with a long history of conflict with sedentary farmers.
"When you don’t have a bank account, your old bills aren’t replaced. It’s impossible. They force us to open accounts at the bank when we have no means to add to an account." Chantal Mugisha, merchant at the COTEBU market
"We saw pilots parachuting as the plane dived towards the ground ," said a witness in northern Khartoum. A source within the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (FSR) told AFP that the FSR had shot down the army plane.
In Tunisia's coastal city of Sfax, three African migrants have been arrested as suspects following the fatal stabbing of a local man.
"Philippe Manier is convinced that the trial will, after a fair process, establish his innocence," said Mes Emmanuel Altit and Alexis Guedj, his lawyers in a press release.
Egypt and Turkey announced on Tuesday that they had appointed ambassadors to each other's countries for the first time in a decade, the latest sign of a warming of diplomatic relations.
