Deux manifestants mettent le feu à des barricades dans le centre de Dakar. Les pierres qui jonchent le sol témoignent de la violence des affrontements avec la police utilisant des gaz lacrymogènes.

Un journaliste et un photographe se félicitent pour leur couverture pendent les manifestations.

Cheikh Bamba Dièye, l’un des candidats à l’élection présidentielle, est arrêté par la police en se rendant à la Place de L’Indépendance pour participer à une manifestation.

Deux jeunes journalistes couvrent les révoltes pendant la campagne électorale au Sénégal. Les partis d’opposition ont organisé des manifestations violentes à Dakar et les villes provinciales, protestant contre la candidature d’Abdoulaye Wade pour un troisième mandat.

As ICFJ and SYNPICS came to an agreement with security forces that journalists wearing press jackets would not be beaten or harassed, journalists did not suffer deliberate violence during these riots, as has happened in the past. Photo by Mamadou Gomis.

Journalists were trained on the principles and rules that must be followed in order to produce fair and balanced election coverage. Photo by Mamadou Gomis.

Journalists clamor to be where the action is happening despite the risks. Here, covering a candidate's meeting. Photo by Mamadou Gomis.

These journalists take to heart one powerful recommendation from ICFJ and SYNPCIS on covering elections amid violence: don't go out into the field alone. Photo by Mamadou Gomis.

Demonstrators build a fire in Dakar's city center amid hundreds of stones that protestors had thrown at police using teargas. Photo by Mamadou Gomis.

Journalists' coverage of the elections was greatly enhanced this year due to media monitoring, an alert system and press ID jackets, initiatives of the ICFJ/SYNPICS project. Photo by Mamadou Gomis.