Former mayor of Dakar Khalifa Sall urged a calmer more considered approach to accountability...

Ba and Khalifa Sall joined in the national dialogue but the talks were boycotted by Thierno Alassane Sall and Aissata Tall Sall the former foreign and justice minister who now leads Macky Sall's allies in parliament...

And then he reached out to Ba Diaz and Diaz's political patron Khalifa Sall...

Former Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall one of the main creators of Yewwi now appears largely marginalised...

There were so many candidates including major names such as Aliou Mamadou Dia of the Islamist Parti de l'unité et du rassemblement (PUR) former Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall and Rewmi party chief Idrissa Seck – who had been runner-up in 2019 with 20...

That was exemplified by Sonko's highly questionable jail term for defaming a minister and previously by the six-year sentence imposed on Khalifa Sall for political misuse of municipal funds to prevent him challenging Macky in the 2019 presidential contest...

He played a key role in knitting the Yewwi Askan Wi alliance with Khalifa Sall the former Dakar mayor which captured most of Senegal's main cities and towns in the January 2022 municipal polls and won 56 seats in the July parliamentary elections of the same year...

Among other contenders are the former Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall and the former premier and Rewmi (nation in Wolof) party chief Idrissa Seck and erstwhile members of the administration who have fallen out with the president or have been sacked: such as Aly Ngouille Ndiaye and Mahammed Boun Abdallah Dionne...

Politicians such as Thierno Alassane Sall Déthié Fall and Khalifa Sall also feature strongly in the media landscape...

Khalifa Sall has also tried to appeal to Mouride electors praising the role of the Khalife of the brotherhood...

Many have concentrated on community canvassing and touring their strongholds: such as Thiès for Idrissa Seck and Dakar for Khalifa Sall...

Last June a deal at the national dialogue talks allowed Wade and former Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall to run for the presidency despite convictions for financial offences...

Former mayor of Dakar and now leading oppositionist Khalifa Sall dismisses it as 'serving no purpose'...

First round support for Faye could be eroded by the presence of three other Sonko acolytes Cheikh Tidiane Dieye Habib Sy and Déthié Fall while former Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall onetime oil minister Thierno Alassane Sall and political perennial Idrissa Seck – runner up in 2019 – all hope to make an impression...

Besides Sonko the strongest opposition challenger is former Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall who has been on the campaign trail for months...