Senegal today elected its fifth president after a stormy political crisis. He will decide between continuity or perhaps radical change after 3 years of turmoil and political crises.
About 7.3 million voters were invited to choose between the power candidate, Amadou Ba, and 16 competitors, including a woman and the anti-regime Basserou Diomaye Faye. The elections may mark the end of a regime that has maintained pro-investment policies in the country that will soon become an oil and gas producer.