All’s well that ends well. After several hours of questioning at the Gendarmerie National’s research unit, Mohamed Guèye and Pape Moussa Traoré, publication directors of Le Quotidien and La Tribune, have returned home. The two journalists were able to return to their homes. Summoned yesterday to the Diamniadio gendarmerie, Mohamed Guèye joined the Colobane research unit for questioning. His colleague from La Tribune was interviewed from the previous day. Authorized to return home, he was due to report yesterday morning for further questioning by the Pandoras of Colobane.

The General Kandé Affair : The State on a minefield

The hearings follow articles in both dailies about the posting of Army Chief of Staff General Souleymane Kandé as Military Attaché to the Senegalese Embassy in New Delhi, India.

In its article, Le Quotidien reported that General Kandé, the architect of the heavy defeat of the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (Mfdc) in its strongholds in the south of the country, intended to challenge this decision at Supreme Court level.