we were expecting 5 million people to vote here in dakar, senegal. and, i mean, you have hinted at it before and also in your report you mentioned this could be a huge result not just for senegal but for africa itself. so what do you think the outcome could mean for the country and its neighbors? >> reporter: it's an important vote not for just senegal but others in the region. five countries are voting today. niger and others and congo as well. and many of the african leaders have tried to stay on, to cling onto power. we know that other countries are thinking of doing the exact sale thing as senegal for instance, in burkina faso, a neighboring country, they are also thinking about trying to change their constitution, but here in senegal, people are always a bit wary when heads of states try to tweak around the sacred text which is the constitution. there is a longstanding democracy here. and people really believe in the institutions of democracy here. but senegal has always led the way in terms of reformat least in west africa and french-speaking w

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narrator: protests like these in dakar and senegal spread to many other cities.ere were similar riots in egypt and in india. in haiti the president was overthrown. the reason? high food prices. one of the major causes: climate change. villagers are leaving their homes simply to survive.

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university of akron.asn they believe they know what kind of car hitel is because they have parts from dakar, this is video, from a business on collier avenuefr shows a feature that figure that could be 44 -year-old ron hubbard along that roadur sending the police were called by a short partsts that belong they say to a 2011 -- 2013 corolla or they say is believed to have-- hit turned and left from his father believes that he was walking to his house and had. >> with the evidence gathered were going to check the area forhe surveillance video . we would like to individual to come forward. >> he said his father was a the icu on sunday at akron general, if you can identify the black toyota corolla with front end damage the highway patrol highway patrol would like you to call themeol. eight members while a memory foam lake driven family was safe after they they were alerted to their house that their house was on fire this morning rajesh joins us. >> everybody's okay okay because they have a working smoke alarm and the actions of a family member and two police officers. t >> a people including po

every week he drives to the outskirts of dakar searching for the cheapest petrol he can find.ills the tank completely but buys just enough for what he needs. senegal's government says with global prices falling and its recent offshore oil and gas discoveries, it can afford to drop prices at the pump to 1.15 a liter. but it's still expensive for a country where almost half of the population lives on less than $2 a day. >> translator: sure it's cheaper, but mark my words, having oil leads to complications. we might be better off paying more at the pump rather than having people fight over our natural resources. >> reporter: u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa. a record 5 trillion cubic meters of it straddled between the coasts of senegal and mauritania. they have also found vast quantities of oil near guinea's border. the exploration hasn't been complete bud what to do with these untapped natural resource is his already a source of heated debate in parliament. the senegal ease government has yet to negotiate ownership wit

narrator: protests like these in dakar and senegal spread to many other cities.e were similar riots in egypt and in india. in haiti the president was overthrown. the reason? high food prices. one of the major causes: climate change. villagers are leaving their homes simply to survive.

india are playing bangladesh in a final of the asia cup in dakar. they play the side who are currently unbeaten in the tourp meant. >> just treat it as another game. why think it's a final. you have to approach every game like you approach in this tournament. every game is a knock out and we approach it in that fashion. we approach tomorrow's game in no different manner. >> this was the end of the match. obviously it is a final. the flavour is different but we take it as a different pa match. we just want to play our best cricket. hopefully we will keep it going >>> that gets underway at 1330 >>> thank you very much indeed. we will, of course, see you later. that's it for this news hour on al jazeera, but do stay with me for i've got plenty more world news coming up your way, including the situation at the greece macedonia border where thousands refugees waiting to cross into macedonia are stranded. stranded. >> that harmony, that politeness and that equilibrium that japanese people call "wa". at the other side of history, fukushima's heroes were no

india to play bangladesh in dakar. an indian team were unbeaten in the tournament. >> just treat it as another game. why think it's a final? you have to approach every game like you've approached in tournament. every game is a knock-out and we've approached it in that fashion and we will approach tomorrow's game in no different manner. >> this is the end of the match. obviously, it is final. the flavour is different, but we take it as a different match, like, you know, we just want to play our best cricket. hopefully we will keep it going. >> reporter: the best overall skier in the world for a fifth straight season retained his world cup title. he leads the slalom standing and could will clinch a title in that discipline on sunday. meanwhile the women's giant slalom had to be postponed. the compete fors could barely see the course which was eventually deemed unraceable. it has been rescheduled for monday. that's all >>> thank you. finally, in this bulletin to the democratic republic of congo where music is a lifeline f

al jazeera's nicholas hack is in dakar for us, what was the turn out like?: well, the polling stations have just closed half an hour arc they have closed the door and they are counting the ballots and this is happening across 1200 polling stations across the country. the official tally won't come until tomorrow morning. we already know the turn out was low. midday today the director of the electorate commission said 10 to 15% only came out to vote. supervisor at this polling station told us one of the reasons perhaps for the low turn out is because there are 15 clauses in this referendum. it's not just about reducing the term in office for the president. and, of course, many people here support reducing powers to the president, but there is also this feeling that tweaking around the constitution is something that the senegalese feel uncomfortable about. lauren. >> why are they so concerned about the potential changes to the constitution? >> reporter: well, because as you know, across many afghan countries, presidents have tried to extend their stay in power.

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