Election campaigns are ongoing in Senegal for the forthcoming presidential election slated for February 24.

The five candidates contesting include incumbent President Macky Sall .

The contenders are seriously crisscrossing the country since Sunday in order to persuade voters in their favour.

The other four candidates are opposition MP Ousmane Sonko; former prime minister Idrissa Seck; Madicke Niang, an associate of former president Abdoulaye Wade; and El Hadji Sall of the Unity and Assembly Party.

Senegal is another African country that has fixed its election in February