Civil Rights Organizations are Against Macky Sall and President Diomaye Meeting

As part of his bid to lead the UN, former President Macky Sall’s visit to Dakar on Friday to meet with the Senegalese head of state has drawn criticism from a group denouncing the repression in Senegal.

The authorities, who have been in charge since April 2024, accuse the former president of violently suppressing opposition demonstrations between 2021 and 2024, which resulted in scores of deaths nationwide. “This visit is a third assassination, a third act of torture, a third imprisonment for all the victims between 2021 and 2024,” according to Guy Marius Sagna, a member of the majority in parliament.

A UN spokeswoman announced on Monday that Burundi had proposed Macky Sall, the former president of Senegal, for the top position at the UN. From 2012 to 2024, Sall served as the leader of the West African country whose current government accused him of hiding negative economic data. The present government of Senegal accuses Sall’s previous administration of hiding the full scope of the nation’s financial issues.

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