A Delayed Election and a Stained Legacy: Next Africa
Protesters outside Senegal’s General Assembly in Dakar on Feb. 5.
Photographer: John Weseels/AFP/ Getty Images
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Senegal has long been hailed as a role model of stability and democracy in a troubled region — a country never ruled by the military in coup-prone West Africa.