With our correspondent in Dakar, Charlotte Idrac

Clashes notably took place at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar between students and law enforcement, the BIP, the police's multipurpose intervention brigade, arrived as reinforcement.

Tear gas grenades were fired throughout the afternoon, as well as live ammunition. In response, the young people – some positioned on a roof – fired back with volleys of stones, bricks, sticks, and one was even seen throwing a sink. At one point, the gate in front of the university fell. A standoff, then, on either side of the statue of Cheikh Anta Diop erected very recently. Obviously, traffic was blocked, the avenue was strewn with stones, all shops closed, no reliable count available for injuries on either side.

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Scuffles and clashes also reported in the suburbs of Dakar, in the Parcelles assainies neighborhood, Pikine or Guédiawaye.

And in Casamance as well clashes took place, in the south of the country, the stronghold of the opposition figure, notably in Bignona where at least one death was recorded on Thursday, that of a young protester. This was confirmed to RFI by the prefect of the locality who indicates that an investigation is underway to determine the exact causes of this death.

Where do matters stand regarding the proceedings targeting the opposition figure?

According to one of Ousmane Sonko's lawyers reached in the evening, the opposition figure remains at the investigation unit, in police custody. A custody that can last 48 hours, thus until Friday afternoon.

But he received, according to his defense, a summons to appear, this late afternoon, in the first proceeding, thus concerning the complaint for rape with threats. "He can only appear if free," assured Maître Massokhna Kane, of the collective of lawyers, in other words only if the police custody is lifted.

In this context, the signals of private television channels senTV and Walfadjiri were cut on terrestrial television on Wednesday during the clashes following Ousmane Sonko's arrest, the audiovisual regulatory council had warned certain media, evoking "calls for popular uprising, by broadcasting calls for insurrection on loop."