Senegal

In Senegal, an important security device was placed near the National Assembly on Friday, June 25, where draft amendments to the Criminal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code must be reviewed by deputies. The majority assures that it is about "strengthening the fight against terrorism". The opposition condemns "liberticidal" texts against the right to demonstrate.…

The project to promote integrated management and the economy for solid waste (Promoged) was officially launched on Thursday 24 June in Mbeubeuss, a giant landfill in the city of Malika, on the outskirts of Dakar. as reported from Dakar,Charlotte idracIt is an open dump at the gate to Dakar: the Mbeubeuss website, which opened in…

In Tambacounda, a city 500 kilometers east of the Senegalese capital, the Dakar-Bamako train has not run since 2018. In April last year, the Minister of Transport announced that traffic would resume in December 2021 to Tambacounda, failing to rehabilitate rails to Mali. A promise that the people were waiting for while the train brought life to the whole region which was more isolated.…

This Wednesday, Senegal recalled the June 23, 2011 movement. This popular protest movement that had led then-President Abdoulaye Wade to abandon its constitutional reform project. It is a crucial moment in the country's political history. This anniversary is celebrated in the division with two separate events in Dakar. as…

This Wednesday marks the 10th anniversary of the M23 or June 23 movement in Senegal. This coalition of political parties and civil society organizations created in 2011 was mobilized against President Abdoulaye Wade's candidacy for a third term in 2012. Ten years later, the movement's legacy is disputed. as reported from Dakar,…

In Senegal, a state data center was inaugurated in Diamniadio on Tuesday, June 22, near Dakar. The infrastructure, presented as a "tool for digital sovereignty", will make it possible to store data from the administration and the private sector. A "revolution" according to the authorities, in particular to facilitate the dematerialisation of administrative procedures. A project included in the emerging…

In Senegal, the Institut Pasteur in Dakar notes a strong circulation of variants of Covid-19. Four have been identified among departing travelers in April and May. The alpha variant (known as "British") had already been discovered in the territory. From now on, Delta (known as "Indian"), Beta (known as "South African") and Nigerian variants are also circulating. The health service is asking for an…

"Against a global downward trend since the beginning of May, the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated in Africa for the fifth week in a row. Africa Pointabove all. The trajectory of Covid cases in Africa is "very, very worrying", the WHO estimated on Friday, with the spread of more infectious variants and a dangerously low level of vaccination. According to data collected by the WHO, there were 116,500 new infections in Africa…

In northern Senegal, the Diamond Dam in the Saint-Louis region marks the border with Mauritania. It is the work of the Senegal River Development Organization (OMVS), which has four Member States: Senegal, Mauritania, Mali and Guinea. In operation since 1986, this "anti-salt" dam has made it possible to develop agriculture in the river valley. And 35 years later, it is a successful example of…

The beaches are taken by storm with the hot weather. President Macky Sall described the "unacceptable" death of a dozen young people last weekend in Malika, on the outskirts of the capital. as reported from Dakar, Charlotte idrac The head of state asks the government and communities to take "urgent action". The Association of Lifeguards and Lifeguards has registered 36 deaths by drowning in less than a month. At a press conference on Wednesday, June 16, she demanded more resources to secure the beaches. At the end…