Seven million people are casting their vote in Senegal as they choose their new president.

The election was due last month but the outgoing president postponed it, triggering deadly protests.

Record levels of crime are driving more and more people to buy firearms to protect themselves.

Their rivalry underpins a big divide in the nation, regarded as a beacon of West African democracy.

Those who died were believed to be being smuggled through the desert to reach the Mediterranean coast.