Senegal’s 2024 Election Could Threaten One of West Africa's Most Stable Democracies

In Senegal, mobilization of the opposition and the outcomes of ongoing legal battles could trigger massive unrest and -- in an extreme scenario -- a constitutional crisis that could plunge the historically stable country into violence. More than one hundred political and civil society groups in Senegal formed a coalition on April 16 to oppose a third term for President Macky Sall. The coalition is called the F24 Movement of Vital Forces and is coordinated by Mamadou Mbodj, a long-standing member of the Senegalese opposition. Ousmane Sonko, the leading opposition candidate for the February 2024 presidential election and the subject of two ongoing criminal trials, was among those who attended the coalition's launch....