Last Minute: Arona Niang Sentenced for Broadcasting False News

The Senegalese columnist Arona Niang has recently been at the heart of a major controversy related to his statements about the Covid-19 pandemic. In an intervention on the Web TV "Senegal 7", he accused Senegalese medical personnel of deliberately transmitting the virus to the population through the distribution of masks, nasopharyngeal tests and Covid vaccines. These statements, considered "defamatory, unfounded and contrary to ethical principl…