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| Africa Live: Court hands ex-Liberian rebel leader 30-year sentence - BBC News | |
| (about 13 hours later) | |
| Thomas Naadi | |
| BBC News, Dakar | |
| Senegal's opposition candidate | |
| Bassirou Diomaye Faye has emerged as the winner of Sunday’s election with 54.28% of the total votes, according to official provisional results released by the electoral commission on Wednesday. | |
| Presidential candidates have until the end of Thursday to file appeals challenging Mr Faye's win, failure to which the Constitutional Council will confirm him as the president-elect. | |
| Mr Faye's main challenger, former Prime Minister Amadou Ba of the ruling | |
| coalition, secured 35.79% of total votes. | |
| The election recorded a voter | |
| turnout of 61%. | |
| Mr Ba, along with several of the other 15 presidential contestants, have already conceded and congratulated Mr Faye. It is considered unlikely that they will appeal against the results. | |
| Outgoing President Macky Sall had attempted to delay the polls | |
| initially scheduled for February, which sparked violent protests and resulted | |
| in three deaths. | |
| Mr Faye has said he will rule Senegal with humility and fight | |
| corruption. | |
| He has also promised to put measures in place to address youth unemployment | |
| and the high cost of living. | |
| Expectations remain high for Africa's youngest democratically elected president. | |
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| Senegal election result: Bassirou Diomaye Faye to become Africa's youngest elected president | |
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