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Hundreds of protesters in the Senegalese capital Dakar have called for elections to be held before the end of President Macky Sall's term on 2 April. Reports from Cameroon say 17 people will stand trial for the kidnap and murder last year of the popular radio journalist, Martinez Zogo.
Mr Sall sparked huge protests when he postponed last month's elections and failed to announce a new date. Court papers seen by several media outlets are said to name suspects including a former head of the secret service and Jean-Pierre Amougou Belinga - an influential businessman arrested two weeks after the killing.
On Saturday, protesters from opposition parties and campaigning groups called the president a dictator and demanded the release from prison of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko. Martinez Zogo was an outspoken critic of corruption. He had accused Mr Belinga of graft.
Delegates taking part in political crisis talks last week, which were organised by the president but boycotted by the opposition, recommended holding elections in June. The journalist was abducted in front of a police station outside the capital, Yaoundé.
More from Senegal: His badly mutilated corpse was found days later.
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