Senegal: Moustapha Diop and Mansour Faye in the viewfinder of the High Court of Justice

In Senegal, former ministers of the Macky Sall regime could be prosecuted before the High Court of Justice for misappropriation of public funds in the management of the covid-19 fund. At a press conference last Thursday, the Attorney General of the Dakar Court of Appeal announced that he had forwarded the files of five of them to the National Assembly without revealing their name. A first indictment procedure should first concern two ministers.

The Bureau of the National Assembly and the Conference of Presidents are convened this Wednesday for an important meeting. On the agenda is the issue of accountability, including the transmission of cases to the High Court of Justice. "The Bureau of the National Assembly and the Conference of Presidents convened tomorrow Wednesday. Accountability to the High Court of Justice to try ministers cited in cases of misappropriation of public funds and…