2019 Senegal's Presidential Election Sunday Feb 24,2019

Senegal's Presidential Candidates are wrapping up their election campaigns on Friday, as rights groups call on authorities to make sure the vote is held in a climate free of violence and intimidation.

More than six million Senegalese citizens have registered to take part in Sunday's poll, the first since the West African country cut the presidential term from seven years to five in 2016.

Five candidates are in the running for the country's top office with incumbent President Macky Sall seeking a second and final term in office.

Incumbent Macky  is favourite to win the poll after two of the country's most well-known opposition leaders were barred from contesting the election.

Senegal,a country of more than 15 million people, is one of the most stable democracies in Africa and has had three largely peaceful transfers of power since independence from France in 1960.