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Newsday: 16/02/2024 05:06 GMT : Senegal election delay ruled unlawful

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16/02/2024 05:06 GMT : Senegal election delay ruled unlawful

Senegal election delay ruled unlawful

BBC World Service - Newsday, Senegal election delay ruled unlawful

Opposition figures said it amounted to an "institutional coup".

The Constitutional Court annulled President Macky Sall's decree and a contentious bill passed by parliament moving the vote to December.

Senegal’s Constitutional Council has ruled the president acted unlawfully by postponing elections due this month.

Israel says it has arrested dozens of Hamas gunmen inside a hospital it raided in southern Gaza.

And the Australian city of Sydney will test several schools for asbestos, after suspecting that hundreds of sites could be contaminated with fibres that cause diseases such as cancer.

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