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Sunday, March 12, 2023

SENEGAL: Macky Sall accused of funding racist French politician


From The Continent - 11 MARCH 2023  ISSUE 119


A former prime minister of Senegal, Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré, spent Thursday night in jail over an open letter he wrote to the current president, Macky Sall, asking him if he donated $12-million to a French politician whose party is best known for “hatred and rejection of others.” 

Although unnamed in the letter, the French politician was largely understood to be Marie Le Pen, who visited Sall in January and whose far-right French political party rode on anti-immigration sentiments to become a serious power contender in that country

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