Senegalese opposition leader Sonko is in intensive care, attorney says

Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko addresses journalists in Dakar, March 8, 2021. [AP photo]

Detained Senegalese opposition figure Ousmane Sonko, who eight days ago resumed a hunger strike, is "very weak" and in an intensive care unit, one of his attorneys told AFP on Wednesday.

Sonko briefly fell into a coma on October 23, Cire Cledor Ly said, adding that he had been able to speak with the politician a day earlier.