Senegal: Government and students enter "time of dialogue" following death during campus protests
On 09/02/2026, Abdoulaye Ba, a student of dental medicine at the Cheikh Anta Dip university (UCAD) in Dakar, Senegal, died falling from a window, to avoid a fire that broke out during a police intervention on the student dormitories of his university. His death has emboldened the student protest movement throughout the country, which has added...