Senegal: APR calls for a fair trial for the five former ministers tried in the Covid-19 fund case

In Senegal, five former ministers of the Macky Sall regime are now being prosecuted before the High Court of Justice for suspicions of misappropriation related to the anti-Covid fund. The Alliance for the Republic (APR), party of the former President, is demanding a fair trial. Master Sidiki Kaba, former Prime Minister and executive of the APR, said calmly in the face of the ongoing procedure at a press conference of the party held on Friday, 9 …

Promised by the new power, the time for accountability began: the former president and several of his ministers found themselves in the sights of justice.

Present in the National Assembly at the plenary session of Thursday, May 8, 2025, Mamadou Lamine Diallo did not mingle his words on the case of the five ministers suspected of malfeasance. In an incisive statement, the MP recalls the full powers granted to Macky Sall during the crisis of the Covid-19 and the inaction that followed the overwhelming revelations of the Court of Auditors. He evokes a possible "high treason" if the justice would cond…