i'm christine want to welcome to news africa i'm glad you're shootin maki sol has been reelected president in senegal taking fifty eight percent off the vote figures released by the national vote counting commission show sells nearest rival that's former prime minister sick took twenty percent. of the salwar out celebrating he's election win at sal's party headquarters in the capital. so he's really action campaign on a record of building roads and creating jobs a lot of infrastructure projects in the country going on because i'm solve the builder of a modern cynical but sick and the opposition candidates maintained that the country's economic and fond says have not reached many city going to people especially young men often risk everything to my great teacher. i want to bring in our correspondent well that's africa's jaime sunday at mali and he's going to be giving us more analysis at to this election really i just want to point out that we've had another big election result of a continent and that was nigeria we had a lot of people call a fall day but let's start off by establishing a m

senegal's president maki saul is seeking re-election today as the country heads to the polls sol is running against four other candidates for the vote have been marred by allegations that two key opposition figures were barred from running results are expected on friday. in the egyptian seaside resorts the leaders from the european union and the arab league are holding a summit together for the first time egyptian president. is hosting the gathering where leaders are also expected to discuss security and migration the two day meeting seeks to strengthen ties between the e.u. and arab nations other priorities on the agenda include middle east peace process as well as the conflicts in yemen and syria for more on this i'm now joined by our correspondent gail mathis in shake the georg this is the first meeting of these two very significant institutions what are we expecting out of this and why is this happening now. it is indeed and leaders have set themselves a rather relaxed schedule and a very broad agenda of topics here we're looking at all sorts of topics everything from environment climat