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Melissa Chemam with RFI

Senegal's Ousmane Sonko ends hunger strike, remains ineligible to stand for election

Opposition leader Ousmane Sonko speaks during a news conference in Dakar, Senegal 8 March 2021. REUTERS - COOPER INVEEN

Jailed Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, an aspiring presidential candidate and head of state Macky Sall's fiercest critic, ended a hunger strike Monday.

"Ousmane Sonko has just suspended his hunger strike," the spokesman for his Pastef party, El Hadji Malick Ndiaye, announced on Facebook and Twitter.

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