When Senegal’s parliament approved one of Africa’s most punitive anti-LGBT laws in March 2026, advocates for people living with HIV feared the worst. Their concerns are now being confirmed. New data suggests that access to testing, treatment, and prevention services for vulnerable populations has collapsed, threatening to unravel one of sub-Saharan Africa’s most celebrated HIV […]
While the Sahel burns and West African democracies wobble, Senegal is quietly building something different — a gold sector that has grown from a minor footnote to a major driver of national export revenue in less than a decade. Production in 2025 reached 10.4 tonnes, cementing gold as the country’s primary mineral resource and attracting
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Senegal has formally signed into law a bill that doubles the maximum prison sentence for same-sex relations from five to ten years, in a move that human rights organisations have condemned as a catastrophic retreat from the principles of individual liberty and human dignity. The law, passed by the National Assembly in March with an
A Golden Decade: How Senegal Became West Africa’s New Mining Powerhouse For years, Senegal was overshadowed in the gold sector by its wealthier neighbours — Mali, Mauritania and Guinea. But the country is now experiencing a remarkable surge in gold production and investment, recording more than 10.4 tonnes of gold output in 2025, as mining
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Senegal has announced sweeping reforms to its gold mining sector, raising royalties from 3% to 5% and introducing binding local content rules in the most significant overhaul of its extractive industry since 2016.
Senegal is facing a debt crisis after revelations of hidden borrowing. Learn what’s behind the €650 million scandal rocking Dakar and its people.
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