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Senegal suspends TikTok amid clampdown on dissent

Police are deployed to calm protests after opposition leader Ousmane Sonko was detained, in Dakar, Senegal [Ngouda Dione/Reuters]

Senegalese authorities have blocked access to social media app TikTok, widening a clampdown on dissent days after they dissolved the main opposition party and detained its leader.

“The TikTok application is the social network of choice for ill-intentioned people to spread hateful and subversive messages threatening the stability of the country,” the minister of communications and the digital economy, Moussa Bocar Thiam, said in a statement on Wednesday.

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