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Mar 2024
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Senegal won back its election, but who w...

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Senegal’s democracy was teetering after the presidential election was postponed. Now, it’s back on track and slated for this Sunday, but what will the country’s voters choose for their future?

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This episode was produced by Fahrinisa Campana, David Enders and Amy Walters with our host Malika Bilal. David Enders and Khaled Soltan fact-checked this episode.

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.

Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.

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