Election workers count votes by the light of candles and a kerosene lamp at a polling station without electricity in the Yoff neighborhood of Dakar, Senegal. Wade sought to win five more years in office, facing off against 14 challengers in an election to decide who will lead one of Africa's most stable democracies.

First published in the February 26, 2007, 4:06 p.m. edition

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