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Fifteen of the 20 candidates approved to stand in Senegal's delayed presidential elections have called for the new vote to be held no later than 2 April - the date when current President Macky Sall is due to end his term. A Senegalese man who piloted a boat in the English Channel has been found guilty of the manslaughter of four migrants who drowned when it ran into difficulty.
The 15 candidates also insist the list should not be altered. Ibrahima Bah, a migrant himself, had offered to steer the dinghy in December 2022 in exchange for a free crossing.
The document was signed by some of the leading contenders, including Bassirou Diomaye Faye, who has been detained on incitement charges, and former Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall, who is no relation to the president. He had claimed that he was forced by violent smugglers to make the journey with at least 43 other migrants.
President Sall wanted to postpone the elections for several months so that disputes over the eligibility of other candidates could be resolved. A jury at the UK's Canterbury Crown Court also found Bah guilty of facilitating a breach of immigration law.
But the country's top court said the delay was unconstitutional and Mr Sall says the vote will now be held "as soon as possible". Read more about the case here: Dinghy pilot guilty over Channel migrant deaths
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