Karim Wade, who has been in detention since April 2013, was chosen by the main opposition party, the Senegalese Democratic Party (SDP), as its presidential candidate on Saturday, raising the stakes ahead of the verdict.
President Macky Sall, who ended former president Wade’s 12-year rule at hotly contested elections in 2012, warned last week that his government will not tolerate any attempt to destabilise the West African country in the wake of the court ruling. ($1 = 604.1800
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CFA francs) (Reporting by Diadie Ba; Writing by Daniel Flynn; Editing by Emma Farge)
