Economics
Booming Economy Sets Up Senegal's Sall for New Term in Vote
- Infrastructure projects, oil finds drive high economic growth
- Exclusion of two opposition candidates has sparked criticism
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Senegalese President Macky Sall looks to be shoo-in for re-election on Sunday, touting one of the highest economic growth rates in West Africa and the completion of gleaming new infrastructure.
Since assuming office in 2012, Sall, 57, has managed to attract billions of dollars in investment, including from China, for his Emerging Senegal Plan and overseen average annual growth of about 6 percent. Projects such as highways, an express train for commuters and a new international airport in a city that’s being built from scratch to ease congestion in the capital, Dakar, feature prominently in his re-election campaign.