{"id":127948,"date":"2024-03-26T07:59:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T11:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=127948"},"modified":"2024-03-26T17:30:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T21:30:26","slug":"bbc-senegal-election-voters-choose-new-president-after-political-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=127948","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Senegal election: Voters choose new president after political crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People in Senegal have been voting for a new president in a delayed election after weeks of political unrest.<\/p>\n<p>Long queues of voters were witnessed across the country as they flocked to choose from 17 presidential candidates.<\/p>\n<p>After he voted, outgoing President Macky Sall warned candidates against making premature claims of victory.<\/p>\n<p>The election had been due to take place last month but Mr Sall postponed it, triggering deadly opposition protests and a democratic crisis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-68636327\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Senegal election: Voters choose new president after political crisis <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Sv73kCCfbn\">https:\/\/t.co\/Sv73kCCfbn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCWorld\/status\/1771690662171201997?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People in Senegal have been voting for a new president in a delayed election after weeks of political unrest. Long queues of voters were witnessed across the country as they flocked to choose from 17 presidential candidates. After he voted,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=127948\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,552],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-in-general","category-senegal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127948"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127951,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127948\/revisions\/127951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}