DAKAR, Senegal — As the street cleaner swept away charred rubble, she thought of the woman at the center of the biggest protests to shake Senegal in years: a masseuse who accused a popular opposition leader of rape and then went into hiding.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
As protests shake Senegal, women fear that sexual assault victims will be silenced
By Borso Tall
and March 7, 2021 at 6:47 a.m. EST