Senegal government suspends mobile internet access amid days of deadly clashes

Senegal government suspends mobile internet access amid days of deadly clashes
Demonstrators run after police fire tear gas during a protest at a neighbourhood in Dakar, Senegal (Leo Correa/AP/PA)

Senegal’s government temporarily suspended mobile phone data on Sunday as the country reels from days of deadly clashes between police and supporters of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko.

The ministry of communication, telecommunications and digital economy said that because of the diffusion of “subversive messages in a context of public disorder in certain localities”, cellphone internet data would be suspended during certain time periods.

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