(25 Mar 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dakar, Senegal - 25 March 2024
1. Man sorting through newspapers with coverage of presidential election results
2. Newspaper front page reading (French) "Favorable trends to Diamoye" (Bassirou Diomaye Faye) written on the front
3. Newspaper front page reading (English) “Happy Birthday Mister President” written on the front, showing Faye (who’s birthday was Sunday)
4. Various of Dakar resident Salif Sarr reading paper announcing that candidate Amadou Ba lost in his polling area
5. SOUNDBITE (French) Salif Sarr, Dakar resident:
"As Senegalese people, we're proud of our compatriots, because they've really shown greatness. It's not in the streets that we settle this [change of governance]. What they [the Senegalese] did was to go and vote, they made a choice.”

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dakar, Senegal - 24 March 2024
++NIGHT SHOTS++
6. Faye supporters celebrating at Faye campaign headquarters
7. Various of man with Senegalese flag in front of Faye campaign headquarters
8. Various of crowd of supporters in front of Faye campaign headquarters

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dakar, Senegal - 25 March 2024
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Mohamed Mbaye, Dakar resident:
“I'm satisfied because we can see that democracy is advancing in our country. We really hope that the new president, who is elected by the majority, will manage the country well.”

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Zuiguinchor, Senegal - 24 March 2024
++NIGHT SHOTS++
10.Various of Faye supporters celebrating on street
STORYLINE:
After a relatively calm election day in Senegal on Sunday that saw two frontrunners facing each other in a field of 19 candidates, opposition party supporters began celebrating on the streets around the country, despite results not expected until later this week.

More than 7 million people were registered to vote in a country of roughly 17 million.

To win in the first round, a candidate must gain more than 50% or it goes to a runoff.

Analysts say a second round is likely, between opposition candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye and former Prime Minister Amadou Ba, the candidate for the governing party.

But supporters of candidate Faye, 44, are adamant that their candidate has already won.

Faye was up against candidate Amadou Ba, from the same political party as outgoing President Macky Sall.

This is Senegal’s fourth democratic transfer of power since gaining independence from France more than six decades ago.

It took place one month later than initially scheduled after President Macky Sall tried to delay it until the end of the year.

Sall is constitutionally barred from seeking a third term and is expected to step down on April 2 when his mandate ends.

After the polls closed on Sunday, voters praised the peaceful outcome amid concerns after months of deadly protests ignited last summer by the jailing of the popular opposition leader Ousmane Sonko and concerns that the president wanted to stay in power.

Rights groups said dozens were killed, while hundreds more were jailed.

In a move that defused tensions just ahead of the election, Sonko was released after months in prison along with Faye, to jubilant celebrations on the streets of Dakar.

Sonko was barred from the race in January due to a prior conviction and Faye ran in his place.

But the atmosphere remained tense in some parts of the country as votes were counted.

Locals pelted a visiting government delegation with jeers and stones in the northern fishing town of Saint Louis after they entered a closed polling station.

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