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Riot in Dakar after Senegalese cardinal rebukes president
December 31, 2009
Rioting broke out in Dakar, Senegal on December 30, after Cardinal Theodore Sarr rebuked the country’s President Abdoulaye Wade for insulting the Christian faith. Wade had said that Christians “pray to someone who is not God.” When Cardinal Sarr protested those “damaging remarks,” a crowd surrounded the city’s cathedral, provoking confrontations with worshippers and forcing police to fire tear gas to disperse the crowd.
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