Even before Mr Wade's concession, thousands of Sall supporters began celebrating on the streets of Dakar.
Mr Sall, Senegal's new president, knew first-hand how vulnerable Mr Wade was at the polls.
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But most of the other 12 candidates backed Mr Sall in the second round.
At exactly the same moment, Sall came through, her eyes bleary, an odd, faraway look on her face.
Sunday night, Sall's supporters gathered at the candidate's headquarters in Dakar, cheering and dancing to hip-hop songs in the streets.
Sall garnered support from several of the failed candidates, who vowed solidarity against Wade as he sought a third term.
For many years, Senegal resisted putting Mr Habre on trial but it has changed its position under new President Macky Sall.
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It followed the defeat of Abdoulaye Wade in the March 2012 presidential election by Macky Sall, who pledged to fight corruption.
"We want change because Senegal is poor and Abdoulaye Wade has done nothing, " said Alpha Ba, 18, who voted for Sall.
Some voters worry that Mr Sall could, like his predecessor, grow greedy after riding a wave of popular support into office.
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The kettle was whistling now, and I thought to leave it, so that Sall would have to get up and turn off the gas.
The two survived a field of 14 candidates during the February 27 election, with Wade receiving 32% of the vote and Sall getting 25%.
Mr Sall has promised that, if elected, he will shorten the presidential term to five years from the current seven, and enforce the two-term limit.
Mr Sall owes his political career to Mr Wade, and had held several ministry portfolios before becoming prime minister, the BBC's Thomas Fessy reports from Dakar.
President Macky Sall meanwhile visited the scene of the fire along with senior government officials on Monday and promised to tackle the long-standing issue of Koranic schools.
Dakar's mayor, Khalifa Sall, told RFM radio that the ramshackle development of densely-populated residential areas in the city made it impossible for the emergency services to operate effectively.
That was how it had always been, even at home: my real life was separate from the day-to-day business that Sall knew or cared enough about to make decisions.
With regards to the situation in Mali, President Sall and the Director-General condemned the destruction of ancient monuments and cultural heritage, which beyond Mali, is a great loss for humanity as a whole.
It had become more frequent of late, this coming home and knowing that Sall was asleep somewhere, the magazine she had been reading slipped to the floor, a mug of tea cooling on a side table.
Last year, Senegal's voters ousted President Abdoulaye Wade, a French-educated democrat, married to a French woman, in favor of Macky Sall, a 51-year old oil geologist who owns a house in Houston and speaks English with a Texas drawl.
While Sall made herself busy in the kitchen, I would sit in the dining room with the paper spread out on the table, or I would listen to the radio, staring out at the garden and fiddling with the dials to get a better signal.
The suspense of the film's last 20 minutes, created by the many angles at the director's disposal and the expert editing by Gregers Sall and Chris King, is such that when Senna's car flies off the track into a wall at 190 mph, fracturing his skull, it's almost a relief.
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