Former Senegalese Prime Minister Cheikh Hadjibou Soumare has spent his first night in police custody after asking President Macky Sall if he had financed a French politician. Soumare’s lawyer told local media that the former PM had been summoned by police over his letter to the president about the alleged donation. In the letter, Soumare had asked the president whether he had donated $12.7m to a “French political figure” whose party is distinguished “by hatred and rejection of others.” The Senegalese government has already denied making any financial donation to the leader of France’s National Rally Marine Le Pen, who visited Sall on January 18.
