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it's been a beacon of stability for more than a decade but senegal has seen days of unrest and violence it was sparked by the arrest of a popular opposition leader so how will the government contain this growing anger this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm peter davi senegal is one of the most stable and democratic countries in west africa but days of violent protests in the capital dhaka are causing concern about a possible escalation at least 10 people have been killed in what's been described

as the worst on rest in nearly a decade the anger began after the detention of a prominent opposition leader on rape charges it soon spread to broader grievances including high unemployment and government corruption was months song co has denied the rape accusation and says the charge is politically motivated the opposition leader is widely seen as president macky cells main challenger in the 2024 elections he was released on bail on monday and called on his supporters to continue peaceful protests well we'll hear from you in a moment 1st president mikey cell addressed the nation on monday here's some of what he had to say. we have to show our differences in a way other than destructive violence because whatever. political choices we are a single family and none of us can have a separate destiny from that of the senegalese nation that is an. individual and

collective work orders us to work together consolidating the fundamentals and not destroying their love and. nothing is more important than the preservation of keeping the soul of the senegalese nation in what it is this mobilization must be maintained it must even be much larger but it must above all be peaceful it must be peaceful today the people have regained the rights that macky sall confiscated 9 years ago at the demonstration the people have taken it back by force we must not lose this right so who is known song cope well formally he's a tax inspector who found it is own political party in 2014 he rose to prominence after releasing documents he said exposed political corruption and market sells governing alliance sankoh has drawn support from young voters and finished 3rd in the print 19 presidential election with a little more than 15 percent and he's criticized senegal's relationship with his

former colonial rule of france and he's hinted he wants to examine the tax benefits given to foreign companies al-jazeera nicholas hart has been following this story all week he has us this update from dhaka. despite calls for calm and unity by president mikey solve the movement for the protection of democracy a coalition of actors from civil rights groups civil society activists and the opposition are calling for more protests and it seems that one week after we've done some coke was detained those demonstrations are spiraling out of control beyond the capital the car in several cities throughout the country many young disenfranchised people taking to the streets looting specifically french supermarkets and gas stations because they accuse president mike you sell of protecting big business interest in big corporations playing in the hands of friends of former colonial power instead of protecting the young and the poor

present like you sound says he's heard this call he's appealing to try to resolve those deep grievances he says those argue cue the coronavirus pandemic and the fallout the economic fallout of the current of ours and never could actually called for debt relief in order to tackle the economic crisis meanwhile we spend some go says this is the beginning of a movement of what he calls a revolution and ahead of the presidential election of 2024 but we suspect more protests to come in the days to come nicholas hark. inside story. ok let's get going let's bring in our guests today joining us all from the senegalese capital dhaka we have a minotaur a formally a prime minister of senegal yaseen fallen economist and founding member of the movement for the defense of democracy and. francophone west africa research at

amnesty in senegal used to be the high water mark of stable democracy in west africa what changed and why change is a. factor. in the. we are at the crossroads because we have right now a president who. is trying to set the stage for her. 3rd presidency and this is for 20 elections i'm probably $24.00 but the president has repeatedly said that he will reduce a position its minimum level of existence the president has had also a practice of regularly and this is the 3rd time and the mining is a parliament using the courts to the point where the opponent is not able to run

for elections the 3rd thing is we have seen a situation of really you know political. hacks want of civil society populist activist and. a political leaders we have also seen but have had liberties because before you know we have no way i live you know demonstrate peacefully. in the streets this president was able to be elected because there was a big social movement against iran. do and that's what i was given the enabling conditions to demonstrate to your group do you really i mean if i were a little invent the parliament when a bank was granted what. can ok i mean a tory no yes no foul just let me put those points to

a minister to read the former prime minister mystery as a journal of wreck or what yaseen file is saying there is factually correct the 3 significant opposition leaders who have stood against the incumbent recently have all been in effect airbrushed out of the process by a use by somebody or some people of the legal system. well let me just maybe speak today to the situation right now and you know my great thick you know answer to the yes in with an activist so no great settlement great defender and rights defender ringback. i do think back to the situation as we speak i mean is it is is concerning that's for sure if you see what happened they got as you said is known as you know

a great example in africa of stable democracy so how did we get how did we get here so i think it's a it's a it's a bit it's a very important question to us me and i have to have said that when i was there in position government position the issue after time is way behind us i mean this is something that we don't expect anybody to to discuss about for me it didn't betty very clear and i said it 7 times. and the president himself said it in the past so i expect that in 2024 you know he didn't have a it's an election that was on the kind of president that's and that's my hope but what happened is that to have a yes or a could be impacted yeah. you know economy the country you know took a terrible a hit and as you know we do have

a economy that is 80 percent in samarra and that's where you are the young people you know get some earnings being in shops in small training and for a year of how do you feel of course they got terribly impacted ok some of them tried to do in europe you know a 100 people died so decided to the frustration of not being sure about democratic . future that's for sure ok we will return to covert i'm sure in the next 30 minutes or so what's been the yellow from a human rights point of view amnesty is saying it is troubled by what's going on in senegal that's an understatement surely because it's not just happening in dhaka it is happening in other locations as well. it is happening in the ocean white indeed and that as of today we have. seen that 12 people lost their lives in the context

of the protest since last wednesday when the the opposition leader it was months on call with arrest but this is not the only. human rights violations that after 2 months have documented parts. at the act against press freedom such as a suspension for 72 hours of 2 t.v. stations that were commenting lines proposed on wednesday and serious going an hour or so or different terms to into the access and to to social mission ops on friday that was that you meant that by. internet activity such as networks consortia and so those are all very concerning and said i got it specially in the quran and texts when i was rightly pointed out by my jewel cooper that is the question of. terror candidates and that has been an idjit to be a project by the incumbent presidents have been hovering over. the scene in the for

it's going to arena and they're actually were calling for the government investigations into the circumstances in which people lost their rights we have seen that there many of them lost their lives when their security forces used level of force why policing the protest which is also very concerning and now we are quoting nationally or parties to the restaurant in the current context of could be $1000.00 but the same by the foreign minister i mean it's quite a shame because it could be 1000 that has been has taken a very big shit on the interim sector and the diseases of progress are not only due to the i rest of the opposition but that there has been a lingering. on the line discussion in senegal in front of. it could be 1000 bards innocent city of some of the measurements that were taken by the government ok well that's ok you're going to go just let me go to gesine fell for the

opposition again mr song co has a reputation of being able to galvanize the young given that the president is showing no sign of backing down is it wise of him to carry on trying to do that particularly seeing as how the elections are in theory a relatively long way away 2024 well right now i think that mr some poor we have a platform of our your what we are demanding the government to do. really i mean yes it is of course i think that the big 19 is is over one of the factors being worked at 19 there was a very high priest poverty incident that increase economic discrimination into its magnetization well this is the fact. because we have seen. if you know let us into some huge slabs from the government the great and long

as usually it has been a long several several days for me when you visit families who have lost everything . and we recently saw also the hundreds of young people who have been. you know who died in there in the ocean or in the desert trying to get out who look for another you know i mean what and then i go back to the government the president was silent on that he did give me you know i mean people who when they offered you know for the for the best and you know what he did a pragmatic that in place. so i think at this point there has been a series of factors that have been greatly increased validation of economic and social rights being access to work being the length of grabbing that hit. which people in what people you know related to the government but also i think

that what really young people saying is that young people. may see a lack of hope in the political agenda in the economic proposals that mr sample proposing to them no one can deny that no one can just say that this is simply about poverty because we have had similar to this and in and out the way real of you have seen really increased poverty increase actual magnetization understood at once media you've already touched on this point or sman it's not just about covert 98 it is it it's also about the coded curfew that they put in place telling people they had to be off the streets by 9 pm it's about the tax breaks to french companies like to and it's about tax breaks to the chinese the chinese government is in a hole to senegal worth $1600000000.00 and yet people are still living in poverty so the economy is doing well on the one hand but people aren't seeing the benefits

of that on the other hand. yes that that is exactly as a point because many of your urbanized have population are in senegal do not see the benefits of their economy grow out of the last few years yesterday one of the protesters gave a very in account and insightful speech about his reasons to protest he say basically that he's a graduate of the university but the promises of social mobility that it is that some tickets the kids and i go when people wanted through the education system and get. a higher university bromance do not exist anymore and so he said he wants the most incentives that after i get my high school degree i tried to get into. a training school but i did not have any means in order to bring my shoes and that's why i'm demonstrating and i think that is close is very. relevant to it for

rings a bell in many quarters in senegal we see many people have that sees the economic growth and the growing disparity between the haves and the have nots and so they go out and try to that they have master's degree. load agrees that in their very. important academic disciplines but they cannot have. jobs that could give them a different living somewhere and that is a very concerning issue and i think yesterday the president in his speech in which he say that he was going to work. through the timing of the curfew which would not start anymore at 90 m. but at midnight and at 5 yeah but a lot of emphasis on the social programs that he had over the 1st few years so to have the full force going to does now which have been very much criticised for not

reaching is all right congress is and they are but i have just let me move the conversation. let's go back to your sinful mr song co is undoubtedly a populist his movement is populist but he has to go beyond that surely he has to come up with policies so what are his actual policies to get the country turned around economically and i do not agree with you know this name of populous populous i think mr sample has has written 'd 2 books one of the books is called solutions in greece he's laying out. a progressive economic agenda can't really it you know develops in a god but also in the in a in the development of his that has growth but distributed growth that would enable. really you know a social infrastructure to be built but i mean annabelle

a domestic back affected to thrive that will also enable back machine weaver you know countries and development agencies and international private sector that is really respect respect spectacle of the rights of the senegalese but then you put the interests of senegalese citizens 1st so i think he has another book about do you really natural resources in particular all of the natural resources and the rest and how you know it's natural this was in senegal is in doubt with great help as good as in the past really in. so so so yes maybe because he's english but if you could share with you we have developed a program a program that is really thorough during the election that was quite good for the 1st time here was a development program but

a candidate that has completely explain how it's going. to come. that. it's feet but you know not beyond that you know in a development ok and not to tolerate as far as mackey sal is concerned can he continue to underpin his existence as the incumbent by this idea that he may want to reheat the idea of going for a 3rd term he he went there in 2016 it wasn't received very well and we don't have any guarantees that he won't try it again well let me tell you that i'm not speaking on his behalf to begin with i said that my hope is that if he's not going to run he doesn't have to run he has to go and i mean it is one in peace and make sure that it take into consideration the demand from the us

because i think that the challenge that we are facing and they sound economic an economic plan is used to that will generate doubts because one of the the desperation of young people taking to see or taking the streets is that they don't have even though some of them might be better educated that's that's the bottom line that's what he has to the sun by making sure that he can support and from all its national production as sun i got to say you're dependent in many ways and that we have to make sure that industry like the country that you can generate jobs who add value to natural resources especially agriculture i think this are you know that challenge is that you face and he has to find sound solution with good expert is because another another talent that he faces and has to make

sure that in the coming days in the coming weeks that come with a team that's able to show. a sun program that will address the needs of young people not globally not an easy lots but with concrete programs a defeat 11th you're going to ask me where he got to find the money i think he has to continue its budget and couple ordinary and you know expenditures and reallocate them to program that sound and backed out of your creating. programs for young people so it is time for him for that 3 years left for him to sort of even a clear answer to the young people ok in just let me just let me as he had towards the end of the program i mean it's a story just let me go back to us men diablo when it comes to people stepping back from where we are at the moment there are voices in dakar saying that the entire country is on the precipice of something much more dangerous than we've seen so far

few voices are saying let's take the temperature out of that one of the voices is the muslim brotherhood but nobody's listening yet in the opinion of amnesty why is that. no i understand because i think this is beyond the monday of amnesty international but just to add to give you a few points i think you're absolutely right as the number of casualties. that we have seen over the past few days if almost equal there's a number of casualties we have witnessed during these out on face or down protest of 2011 in 2012 so in about in a span of 5 days we have seen as much casualties and as much people dying during the process as people die between june 2011 and strip you're a tough act and that has care a lot of people and now we have seen a lot of mediations i see bits of slate yeah members but also by members of the

religious brotherhood stu seneca will have mediated between that i really if for the arabs it was months on one man state yes but our source and then since this weekend and i think it is due to be special that. parties as much as those months on who i think it might be some made public speeches that they are calling for restraint and then the thing i'm going to push you there for so i apologize in the last 30 seconds of the program to you yes in full super briefly the military are on the streets as we're having this conversation on the streets up to and a round the presidential palace is that the reality the president still thinks what we're seeing right now in real time may go either way. we are going to consent because we think that you know. senegal should not be egg cannot be ruled by i am forced by you know forces and the brain that is saying something in 111 way

after last night but by what b.s. seeing in them but really they will ring in that and question that we are at war while young people at requesting what they like to believe isn't live in have employment and be some improvement there is a big is going to be so we are concerned to be and the united nation and go ask a broke one of the government allow people to build them a space and peacefully and to cry over the whole of iraq ok. conversation on that thought provoking point thank you to our guests they were and i story was mondello and yaseen fallon thank you too for your company you can see the show again via the web site al-jazeera dot com and for more discussion go to our facebook page facebook dot com forward slash a.j. and side story can also join the conversation of course on twitter handle is a change inside story for me peter told me and everyone on the team here in doha thanks for watching i will see you very soon for the moment of.

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