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Senegal

Police acquire Croatian assault rifles

The Senegalese national police has taken delivery of hundreds of VHS-2 assault rifles from the Croatian company HS Produkt to equip its officers.

Subscribers only Defence 23.04.2025

Unpaid bill lands Air Sénégal in fresh trouble with Carlyle Aviation

An Air Sénégal plane arrives at Marseille Airport, in France, August 2024. © Gerard Bottino/SOPA via Reuters

Subscribers only Business 21.04.2025

Aerial view of Russia's Novorossiysk port, August 2023. © Planet Labs PBC via AFP

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Theia Trading takes over Russian oil products market in Africa as sanctions hit Demex

Russian trading companies are competing with each other to circumvent international sanctions in order to continue selling their products in Africa.

Subscribers only Energy, Commodity traders 15.04.2025

The ECOWAS summit in Abuja, Nigeria, on 15 December 2024. © Marvellous Durowaiye/Reuters

ECOWAS plans its contentious 50th anniversary amid existential crisis

West African foreign affairs ministers will gather on 22 April in Accra to kick off the birthday celebrations. Yet the thorny questions surrounding the Alliance of Sahel States and the future presidency of the organisation will also be on the agenda.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 14.04.2025

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Russians, Chinese, Israelis eye Senegal's defence and security market

Senegal's Chief of General Staff Mbaye Cissé (far left) and President Bassirou Diomaye Faye (second right) on Independence Day in Dakar, 4 April 2025. © Seyllou/AFP

Subscribers only Defence 09.04.2025

New pair of generals at Accra Initiative helm

A duo of Ghanaian generals recently took charge of the West African regional security organisation and have been tasked with revitalising it under the aegis of President Mahama.

Subscribers only Defence 08.04.2025

The New Guard
Senegal, Nigeria, Namibia

Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence spotlights a new generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.

SenegalFrançois Mendy, ex-journalist turns to regional politics

NigeriaPreston Ideh, continental finance analyst

NamibiaEsperance Luvindao, from telemedecine to health minister

Free access Politics, Business, Diplomacy 09.04.2025

From Sall to Faye, French construction giant Eiffage consolidates position in Dakar

While construction and public works company Eiffage is still at loggerheads with the Senegalese government over the regional express train project, it has managed to make progress on other projects through constructive dialogue with the country's highest authorities.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 08.04.2025

At Diamniadio station, the Senegalese Regional Express Train from Dakar, 11 January 2022.

PM Ousmane Sonko mulls trip to Abidjan

The visit may take place in the first fortnight of April, and it would be Sonko's first to Ivory Coast since coming to office.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 04.04.2025

Air Sénégal's Czech plane woes

The order for five aircraft from Czech company Aircraft Industries is turning into a headache for Senegal's national carrier. While two of the aircraft remain grounded for maintenance, delivery of the other three is still pending.

Free access Infrastructure 03.04.2025

Customers wait outside an Air Senegal ticket office in Dakar on 21 July 2020.

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Dakar's secret €300m arms contract

In the midst of a budget shortfall and IMF scrutiny of the state's accounts, the Senegalese authorities signed a €317m contract with a Turkish company to equip the army for three years.

Subscribers only Defence 28.03.2025

Mbaye Cissé, Senegal's chief of staff, in Ankara, 19 December 2024.

Eramet goes on offensive against critics of its Grande Côte mineral sands mine

The French mining group has opened the doors of its controversial mobile mine to members of parliament and representatives of Senegalese civil society. Eramet is also suing a French entrepreneur for libel over his social media attacks on the firm.

Subscribers only Mining 27.03.2025

A man stands next to a sign that reads 'Grande Cote Operations (the former name of Eramet Grande Cote) Leave' in Lompoul, 11 February 2025.

Faced with attempted coup d'état accusations, General Kandé seeks to clear his name

Nine months after being brutally sacked by President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, the former head of the army has gone to court to denounce comments made by a former corporal suggesting that he was planning a coup.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics 26.03.2025

The challenges facing Yuval Waks, Israel's new ambassador to Dakar

Newly arrived in Dakar, Israeli diplomat Yuval Waks will be trying to iron out the wrinkles in a bilateral relationship that has been strained since President Bassirou Diomaye Faye's election.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 25.03.2025

Apix Energy, Lukoil's new vehicle in Africa

Several Litasco employees have joined forces to form a new Dubai-based trading company, Apix Energy, which has set its sights on the African continent. However, management denies any link between the two structures.

Subscribers only Energy, Commodity traders 24.03.2025

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Sahelian juntas turn to Qatar to end their international exiles

Nigeria and Mali's leaders were not shy in asking for help to mend diplomatic fences when the Qatari Minister of State for Foreign Affairs came to visit their countries.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 24.03.2025

Qatari Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Mohammed bin Abdulaziz Al Khulaifi, in Beirut, on 3 April 2023.

Behind Dakar and Bamako's military rapprochement

Widely publicised by their governments, increased cooperation between the Senegalese and Malian armies follows confidential guidelines given by President Faye earlier this year.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy 19.03.2025

President Bassirou Diomaye Faye during the Gambia's 60th Independence Day in Banjul, 18 February 2025.

France's Ellipse eyes new construction contracts in Dakar

Ellipse Group, a company specialising in building infrastructure in emerging countries, wants to take advantage of its foothold in Senegal to land further contracts.

Subscribers only Infrastructure 18.03.2025

Former PM Amadou Ba to set up advisory firm for governments

The former premier plans to open his own company specialising in financial support for African countries, which could bring him into close contact with President Faye.

Subscribers only Finance, Politics, Business 17.03.2025

Amadou Ba, former Senegalese PM, in Dakar, 25 March 2024.

Lufthansa Consulting offers help to Senegal's struggling aviation sector

Lufthansa Consulting, a subsidiary of the German airline which provides aviation sector consultancy services, has been prospecting in Senegal in recent months. The firm's Africa director, Catrin Drawer, travelled to Dakar in February to meet with the director of Blaise Diagne international airport (AIBD), Cheikh Bamba Dièye.

Subscribers only Infrastructure 13.03.2025

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Police acquire Croatian assault rifles

Unpaid bill lands Air Sénégal in fresh trouble with Carlyle Aviation

Spotlight Theia Trading takes over Russian oil products market in Africa as sanctions hit Demex

ECOWAS plans its contentious 50th anniversary amid existential crisis

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Air Sénégal's Czech plane woes

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Eramet goes on offensive against critics of its Grande Côte mineral sands mine

Faced with attempted coup d'état accusations, General Kandé seeks to clear his name

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Sicilian operator on the cusp of winning GTA-Gandon gas pipeline project

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