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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DAKAR (Reuters) -Senegal's Court of Auditors released a long-awaited review of the country's finances on Wednesday that confirmed the previous government misreported key economic data including debt ...

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 ...

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 ...

“I’m instructing the government from henceforth to migrate all state data and platforms to the data centre. We have to rapidly repatriate all national data hosted out of the country,” Senegal's ...

Financed with a Chinese loan and built with equipment and technical support from China's Huawei, the data centre will tap into global networks through an undersea cable as well as the country's own ...