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Senegal is gearing up for elections – something that was far from certain just a month ago.
More than seven million people in the West African nation are registered to vote on Sunday to pick a successor to President Macky Sall, who has been in power for 12 years.
Vying for the country’s top job, 19 candidates have been campaigning for the last two weeks in a tight electoral race. For the first time since Senegal gained independence in the 1960s, none of the candidates is a sitting president.
While no clear frontrunner has emerged, analysts have said that the very fact that elections…
