Senegal’s Cryptocurrency City Has Evaporated
October 26th, 2024
Via Foreign Policy, an article on a failed cryptocurrency city project in Senegal: American R&B singer Aliaune Thiam, professionally known as Akon, has long wanted to help Senegal, the country he grew up in. He started Akon Lighting Africa in 2014 to install cheap Chinese solar-powered lighting systems across the continent. He hoped to do […]
Read more »Senegal Unveils 25-Year Development Plan Aiming For Economic Sovereignty
October 17th, 2024
Via RFI, a report on Senegal’s 25-year development plan, which pledges to build the foundation for economic sovereignty by focusing on competitiveness, sustainable resource management, and good governance: Titled “Senegal 2050”, the plan’s objective is to increase per capita income by 50 percent in five years and to extend life expectancy by three years, while reducing […]
Read more »Who Benefits From Senegal’s Offshore Oil Drilling?
October 10th, 2024
Via Dialogue Earth, a report on tensions between energy access, fighting climate change, and a desire for economic prosperity in Senegal: Senegal hopes a move into offshore oil will transform its struggling economy but questions remain about who will actually see the economic benefits. Oil drilling can provide vital income for poor countries but it […]
Read more »As Shell and ExxonMobil Sell Onshore Assets, Are Africa’s Indigenous Producers Ready?
September 5th, 2024
Via The Africa Report, a look at whether – as Shell and ExxonMobil sell onshore assets – Africa’s indigenous producers are ready? As oil majors shift focus to deep offshore exploration in Africa, local producers face rising costs and complex challenges in a rapidly evolving industry landscape. A long-term shift by oil majors towards deep […]
Read more »YouTube in Africa: Offering a New Kind of News
August 24th, 2024
Courtesy of The Economist, a report on the rise of video news via YouTube in Africa: Salam madior fall has been a pioneer more than once. In 1999, while studying in America, he and a friend founded Seneweb, one of the first websites devoted to news from Senegal, his home. By 2002 Seneweb was the most […]
Read more »Africa’s New Railway Age
July 23rd, 2024
Courtesy of The Economist, a look at how Sino-American tensions in Africa are playing out on the tracks: “Every inhabitant of Thiès”, wrote a Senegalese novelist, Ousmane Sembène, in 1960, “depended on the railway.” Like many African cities, Thiès was a product of the continent’s first, colonial-era rail revolution. The French-built railway that ran through it […]
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