Ihe calls for calm and an end to the violence followed one another on Friday in Senegal and abroad after an outburst which prompted the authorities to deploy the army in Dakar, the capital and which raised fears of a conflagration in the event of arrest of opponent Ousmane Sonko, presidential candidate of 2024 sentenced…
Students in front of the gate of the social campus of Cheikh-Anta-Diop University, in Dakar, on June 2, 2023. MOUSSA NGOM In the alleys of the University of Dakar, desolation replaces the usual hubbub and tingling. “From university cars to some buildings, everything burned down”says Sahite Gaye, director of communication at Cheikh-Anta-Diop University (UCAD). “The…
Opposition leader Ousmane Sonko greets his supporters during a rally in Ziguinchor on May 24, 2023. MUHAMADOU BITTAYE / AFP He promised it, he did it. After having spent several weeks entrenched in Ziguinchor, in the south of Senegal, the opponent Ousmane Sonko left his stronghold, Friday May 26 in the middle of the afternoon,…
The selection in competition at Cannes of “Banel & Adama”, the first film by Ramata-Toulaye Sy, confirms the awakening of the country’s film industry, where several multiplexes have opened. But state support remains insufficient.source site-19
The great mosque of the brotherhood of Mourides in Dakar, in March 2020. JOHN WESSELS / AFP Cheikh Ahmed Tidiane Sy does not hide his concern. Since the events of March 2021 which killed fourteen people, this religious dignitary at the head of the Unitary Framework of Islam in Senegal – an organization which represents…
Ousmane Sonko during an opposition meeting in Dakar, March 14, 2023. JOHN WESSELS / AFP Clashes opposed the Senegalese security forces and supporters of Ousmane Sonko Monday, May 15 in Ziguinchor (south) on the eve of the scheduled appearance of the opponent in court for rape, a plot of power for the rule out the…
Read also (CercleFinance.com) – Capgemini announces that it has worked in close collaboration with the mining and metallurgical company Eramet in order to transform, thanks to artificial intelligence, the mining operations of the subsidiary ‘Grande Côte Opérations’ (GCO) in Senegal. Eramet operates in this country through its local subsidiary GCO, which produces mineral sands. To…
Read also (CercleFinance.com) – Capgemini announces that it has worked in close collaboration with the mining and metallurgical company Eramet in order to transform, thanks to artificial intelligence, the mining operations of the subsidiary ‘Grande Côte Opérations’ (GCO) in Senegal. Eramet operates in this country through its local subsidiary GCO, which produces mineral sands. To…
Stylist Khadija Aisha Ba in her Le Sandaga boutique, in Dakar, in March 2023. DR It is “the girl with the headscarf” as it has been called since childhood. Khadija Aisha Ba never shows up without a turban that seems to wrap over her head to the ceiling. This piece of fabric, often in sparkling…
Senegalese designer Marie Madeleine Diouf in her boutique on the Plateau, in downtown Dakar. ALICE OBOE Pink, yellow, mauve and orange. In the small shop of Marie Madeleine Diouf, in an alley of the Plateau, in downtown Dakar, the clothes on the large rack come in all the colors of the rainbow. However, as soon…
Energy paradise Senegal? Gas from West Africa could be Germany’s joker By Andrea Sellmann and Mary Abdelaziz-Ditzow 4/6/2023, 7:13 p.m Senegal is rich in oil and gas – and democratic. Germany is looking for precisely such partners. Chancellor Scholz was there quickly. But Senegal is more self-confident than before and now chooses their partners. Does…
Senegalese President Macky Sall and Emmanuel Macron at UN headquarters on September 21, 2022 in New York. LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP A meeting of” opportunity “. An exchange ” without taboo “. Thursday, March 23, Nadège Chouat, number two of the Africa cell of the Elysée, took advantage of a mission to Dakar to meet…
