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Senegal changes course to back ex-leader Macky Sall as UN chief
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The Senegalese government on Monday made a U-turn, announcing it would back former president Macky Sall’s candidacy to replace UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres when his term expires. The government had previously declined to throw its weight behind Sall, whom it accuses of deadly political repression while in office, but reversed course after he paid the sitting president a visit in Dakar this weekend.
