By A demonstrator throws a rock at police during a protest at a neighborhood in Dakar, Senegal, on Saturday. LEARN MORE --> The clashes first broke out on Thursday, after Sonko was convicted of corrupting youth but acquitted on charges of raping a woman who worked at a massage parlor and making death threats against her. Government spokesman Abdou Karim Fofana said the damage caused by months of demonstrations had cost the country millions of dollars