It hurts too much to lie on his back, so the 7-year-old has spent the past month stretched out on his stomach. His two grandmothers sit on the hospital bed beside him, fanning the pink flesh left exposed by his teacher's whip.
A group of sports journalists were travelling in convoy towards the southern city of Ziguinchor to cover a wrestling tournament on the night of 25 April when they are held up by about 10 gunmen who had barricaded the road at Keur Marie, about 30 km from the central town of Kaolack. The...