http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/police-use-tear-gas-to-disperse-senegalese-protesting-change-to-electoral-law/2011/06/22/AG8NsCgH_story.html

By Associated Press, Updated: Wednesday, June 22, 2:53 PM

DAKAR, Senegal — Senegalese police used tear gas to disperse people
demonstrating against a proposed change to the electoral code which
would make it easier for the country’s aging president to be
re-elected.

Private radio station RFM said police intervened to break up crowds in
Place de l’Independance, a large square in the capital, in a suburb of
Dakar where angry mobs burned tires, and in Kaolack, a city in the
center of the country.

Senegal’s National Assembly is to vote Thursday on a law proposed by
the ruling party that would lower the percentage of votes a winning
candidate needs to avoid a runoff, a change that would favor Senegal’s
85-year-old incumbent President Abdoulaye Wade. The law also would
create a new post of vice president, one that people believe Wade’s
oldest child would seek.

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