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Angry residents\u00a0of the Senegalese capital\u00a0have torched several government buildings including offices of the state electricity firm, Senelec,\u00a0to protest against long power cuts, the AFP news agency\u00a0has reported.<\/p>\n

A policeman said the protesters on Monday “took everything with them, including the safe” and added, “The whole of Dakar is burning.”<\/p>\n

Four offices of Senelec were ablaze and four company vehicles torched. Broken bottles and scattered debris littered the streets of the seaside city along with tyres burnt by the protesters. A tax office was also ransacked and burnt in a Dakar suburb.<\/p>\n

The public anger against mounting power cuts first erupted in the coastal town of Mbour, about 80km from Dakar, where police fired tear gas to disperse the demonstrators.<\/p>\n

“Hundreds of young people ransacked the Senelec office and burned it,” Ismail Diop, a resident of the Dakar suburb of Ouakam, told Reuters.<\/p>\n

Power cuts have steadily worsened in Senegal over the past months and can last up to two days in some areas, hitting economic activity.<\/p>\n

The latest protests come after Abdoulaye Wade, the president,\u00a0dropped controversial efforts<\/a>last week,\u00a0to run for a third term in February 2012 elections as nationwide protests turned to riots in Dakar that left more than 100 people injured – the largest demonstrations since he took power in 2000.<\/p>\n

The shelved election law changes would have added a vice president to the presidential ticket for next year’s polls, and dropped the winning threshold for a first-round victory to 25 per cent of votes from the current 50 per cent.<\/p>\n

Wade’s critics saw the measures as a scheme by the president to avoid a second round of voting and line up his 42-year-old son Karim Wade, already a government minister, for succession.<\/p>\n

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