{"id":5952,"date":"2019-02-19T00:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T23:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2019\/02\/19\/senegal-election-has-macky-salls-economic-boom-trickled-down\/"},"modified":"2019-02-19T00:00:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T23:00:31","slug":"senegal-election-has-macky-salls-economic-boom-trickled-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2019\/02\/19\/senegal-election-has-macky-salls-economic-boom-trickled-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal election: Has Macky Sall\u2019s economic boom trickled down?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Senegal is gearing up for a presidential election next weekend, with incumbent President Macky Sall expected to secure a second term in office after his main challengers were barred from running. The West African country\u2019s economic growth rate sits at just over six percent, up threefold since Macky Sall was first elected seven years ago. Senegal\u2019s landscape has also changed in that time with a number of large infrastructure projects inaugurated on the eve of the election campaign. If re-elected, Sall plans to launch phase two of Senegal&rsquo;s development plan \u2013 a plan that promises an \u201cemerging Senegal\u201d by 2035. But not everyone agrees with the president\u2019s economic record. His detractors claim the Senegalese people are not his priority and his electoral programme won&rsquo;t benefit them. Our correspondents in Senegal, Sarah Sakho and William de Lesseux, report.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senegal is gearing up for a presidential election next weekend, with incumbent President Macky Sall expected to secure a second term in office after his main challengers were barred from running. The West African country\u2019s economic growth rate sits at just over six percent, up threefold since Macky Sall was first elected seven years ago. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-5952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}