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SENEGAL: In Senegal, the coronavirus reduces the celebration of independence to the brink of grief.

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The 60th anniversary of the country’s independence, this April 4, is organized in the context of the fight against the coronavirus: the planned festivities have been canceled and the celebration will be reduced to the strict minimum.

No traditional military parade … This year, the national holiday will be reduced to an “arms takeover”, scheduled for this Saturday morning, at 10 am, in the main courtyard of the presidential palace in Dakar. It will be followed by the national anthem. Sober ceremony, in the presence of the Minister of the Armed Forces, and the military authorities.

The theme chosen for this year, before the start of the coronavirus crisis, was premonitory: “The role of the defense and security forces in the management of pandemics and other disasters”. The head of state asked the Minister of Communication to ensure “the transmission in the media of the missions, actions and achievements” of the various army corps throughout this day.

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From his speech on March 14, and the first measures against the Covid-19 (including the ban on rallies), Macky Sall had announced the cancellation of the festivities. Otherwise, the presidency called on Twitter the Senegalese to “film themselves”, and to send their “messages of good wishes to celebrate the national holiday”.

Source Kewoulo / By Alassane Dramane

       

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