DAKAR: Former president of Senegal Macky Sall on Saturday withdrew from the seven-person race to be the next UN secretary general, a day after an informal UN Security Council poll produced no clear favorite. In a statement released on social media, Sall said he had noted the result of the poll and “hoped to contribute now the emergence of a consensus candidate within the Security Council.” He added that “the results of different test votes indicate a choice favoring a candidate — perhaps fema
