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UNCOVERED: Senegal president calls off february 25 election | History Defined

Sall said he had signed the decree of an ongoing investigation into the integrity of the election process (Credit: AFP)

SenegalesePresident Macky Sall on Saturday announced the indefinite postponement of a presidential election scheduled for February 25, just hours before official campaigning was due to start.

The move, which comes following a dispute between the National Assembly and the Constitutional Court over the rejection of candidates, has been decried by opposition leaders and the Secretary General of the government Abdou Latif Coulibaly resigned shortly after.

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