Twelve years after being among the first African countries to enact data protection legislation, Senegal has published a bill to replace the 2008 Personal Data Protection Law. The Personal Data ...

Telecommunications specialist Millicom is set to build a data center in Senegal to support the African expansion of its subsidiary Tigo. The upcoming facility will be located in Diamniadio, in the ...

When a United States senator from Chicago decided to run for president, one of his first volunteers was a student from Senegal. They met at a campaign event. “Pleased to meet you, Oumar Ba,” said the ...

A new Tier III data center has opened in Diamniadio, Senegal, in the same region as the country’s capital, Dakar. The facility was built by SenConnect for the country’s biggest telco, Tigo, both of ...

Senegal will move all government data and digital platforms from foreign servers to a new national data centre in an effort to strengthen its digital sovereignty. The move risks making the African ...

Senegal’s economy is almost a third bigger than previously estimated after the West African nation’s statistical agency changed its base for measuring gross domestic product. The country’s GDP at ...

In Senegal, more than seven out of ten people are considered poor. This estimate is based on data collected through household income and consumption surveys, coupled with the population census. The ...

DAKAR, Aug 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundreds of thousands of people in Senegal and Mauritania are at risk of going hungry in the coming year because not enough grass has grown to feed the ...