By AFPMore by this AuthorDAKAR,Senegal's President Macky Sall won in the first round of the election Sunday, his prime minister said, although his two main challengers look set to contest the outcome. "The results allow us to say that we should congratulate President Macky Sall on his re-election," Prime Minister Mahammed Boun Abdallah Dionne said at midnight, predicting the incumbent would receive "at least 57 percent" of the vote. If no one wins more than 50 percent a second-round runoff will be held on March 24. And the president chosen will equally have to be president of all Senegalese," Sall said after voting Sunday. "Victory in the first round is indisputable," Sall told a recent Dakar campaign rally.

Source: Daily Nation February 25, 2019 05:26 UTC