Browsing: Senegal
A French troop pull-out from Mali is on the cards, says Sciences Po Paris Professor and Advisor at the Brussels International Center, Kader A. Abderrahim who decrypts for APA the implications of expelling France’s ambassador, Joël Meyer from Bamako.
Though separated by 100 km, Aitta Kébé and Maimouna Tamba are fighting for the same cause. They are both Bajenu Gox, striving to ensure that Senegalese women and girls enjoy a life free from gender-based violence.
Small and medium enterprises based in West Africa are poised to benefit from an injection of capital and technical assistance from a USAID-funded scheme through the African Guarantee Fund valued at over $20 million.
The presidential coalition called Benno Bokk Yaakaar (BBY) has lost the regions of Dakar and Ziguinchor in Senegal’s municipal elections, but managed to retain its strongholds in the northern and central regions.
A return to pre-pandemic employment levels is not expected before 2023, according to the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
The region’s economic vitality should pick up slightly to 3.6 percent in 2022 and 3.8 percent in 2023, the Washington-based Bretton Woods institution has announced.
The decision to suspend Senegal’s groundnut export tax was made by President Macky Sall, during the last cabinet meeting.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) benchmark index of world food prices showed a significantly higher average in 2021 than in 2020.
The infrastructure intended to decongest the port of Dakar will cost 3,000 billion CFA francs and is funded by the Emirati company Dubai Port World (DPW).
The World Health Organization (WHO) is sounding an alarm over the state of the Covid-19 pandemic worldwide, warning that there could be an “infection tsunami” by the turn of the new year.