Concessions fail to end riots over ban on Dakar's street hawkers
A boy wearing a balaclava takes parts in riots in Dakar sparked
by a push to clear hawkers and beggars from the centre of the
Senegalese capital A boy wearing a balaclava takes parts in
riots in Dakar sparked by a push to clear hawkers and beggars
from the centre of the Senegalese capital. Photograph: Rebecca
Blackwell/AP Senegal's worst riots for almost two decades
persisted into a second day yesterday, despite government
efforts to defuse a crisis triggered by a decision to ban
hawkers from the streets of the capital, Dakar.  Market stalls
remained shuttered while police fired tear gas at stone-throwing
protesters, witnesses said. The unrest was nonetheless less
destructive than the violence which convulsed the city the
previous day after President Abdoulaye Wade's government ordered
police to evict thousands of street vendors whose stalls line
the city centre's pot-holed streets.  "Enough's enough," said
the red-banner headline of Le Populai