Senegal: “Future trials will be trials of this culture of police violence”

This is one of the major announcements of Ousmane Sonko’s general policy declaration: last week, the Senegalese Prime Minister committed to soon putting on the table of deputies, a project to repeal the amnesty law . The text, adopted in March 2024 by the former majority, covers the facts relating to the three years of political violence that the country experienced between 2021 and 2024, and which left dozens of dead. The government also announced that five billion CFA francs (7.6 million euros) are intended to compensate victims. During this period, Senegalese civil society organized itself to record deaths in the demonstrations. In particular the associative media La Maison des Reporters, which did not wait for the government to collect and publish dozens of victims’ stories on its social networks. Moussa Ngom is the founder of the Maison des Reporters. He is the guest of Sidy Yansané.