One-Fifth of Senegal Police Force Fired
One in five of Senegal’s policemen, including a quarter of the senior officers, have been fired after going on strike.
The government suspended the entire police force after disturbances in April, but the Interior Ministry said Friday night that 4,822 of the 6,265 policemen involved would be reinstated.
The government fired Interior Minister Ibrahima Wone and called in paramilitary gendarmes to maintain law and order when the police defied a ban on striking after seven members of the force were sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for beating a robbery suspect to death.
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