Other MoA event in Senegal on Wed 30th October 2024

Sonko was unharmed in Wednesday’s attack, but a former minister and head of a party allied to Sonko’s Pastef party suffered a broken arm, according to local media reports.

His party published a photo purporting to show his arm in a sling with a bloodied sleeve.

Sonko’s convoy was pelted with stones in the central town of Koungheul on Wednesday evening, Vieux Aidara, a member of his campaign team, told AFP.

“The rapid intervention of the police dispersed the attackers,” he added.

“Violence has no place in an election. In Koungheul, they tried and they only tried because frankly, attacking… Pastef is suicide,” Sonko said on social media, without identifying the attackers.

Media reports quoted local opposition leader and MP Fanta Sall as saying that opposition activists had themselves been targeted by armed “strongmen” acting on behalf of Pastef.

She said that several people had been injured.

An attack by unknown assailants targeted the headquarters of an opposition party in the capital Dakar on Monday, the day after the campaign period began, local media reported.

The attackers targeted vehicles, smashed windows and started a fire, the reports said.