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Senegal: Debt fuels authoritarian drift

Paul Martial — 2026-03-18T14:53:37Z

Senegal has entered a zone of strong turbulence. Audits of the west African country's economic situation show that the figures published by the former government led by Macky Sall were false.

- IVP614 - March 2026 / Senegal

Africa: The Club of Five and the Sociopath

Paul Martial — 2025-07-29T08:54:00Z

The return of the United States to the African scene is aimed at taking advantage of the continent's riches, a clearly stated objective of the Trump administration.

- IVP606 - July 2025 / Africa, Senegal, Liberia, Guinea-Bissau, Gabon, Mauritania

Overfishing is plundering waters in Africa

Paul Martial — 2025-06-28T06:44:17Z

“In Senegal, in just five years, the number of sardinella has fallen by 80%. This small, very inexpensive pelagic fish is at the heart of the popular diet and is used in the composition of the national dish: thieboudien.”

- IVP605 - June 2025 / Ecology and the Environment, Africa, Senegal

Desire for change in Senegal

Paul Martial — 2024-04-09T10:51:49Z

The victory of Bassirou Diomaye Faye, the fruit of popular mobilization, has created a new political situation enabling the radical left to push for a real break with the past.

- IV591 - April 2024 / Senegal

Macky Sall is the gravedigger of democracy in Senegal

Paul Martial — 2024-02-17T17:08:39Z

Unable to win the next elections, the incumbent president of Senegal is attempting yet another manoeuvre to ensure that the radical opposition does not win the presidential election.

- IV589 - February 2024 / Senegal

Discredited government cracks down in Senegal

Paul Martial — 2023-06-16T20:21:44Z

“The left obviously has a role to play in mobilising against Macky Sall's affairist government, but it must also make its voice heard, the voice of workers and peasants.”

- IV581 - June 2023 / Senegal

The challenges of feminism in Senegal

Fatou Sow — 2023-03-16T21:26:19Z

“No cultural revolution, no return to the sources or ethnic, religious or national authenticity, claimed by the groups that demand them, can legitimize the persistence, imbued with idealization, of so-called traditional or ancestral values, which involve serious discrimination and inequality.”

- Feminism / Women, Senegal

Tension in Senegal as regime faces elections

Paul Martial — 2022-07-18T10:29:01Z

While Senegal's opposition won the municipal elections in January 2022, taking control of several major cities, including the capital Dakar, incumbent president Macky Sall is now trying to prevent the opposition repeating its electoral success in the parliamentary elections. A showdown being played out against a backdrop of social crisis.

- IV570 - July 2022 / Senegal

Stop the social and liberticidal regression in Senegal

Paul Martial — 2021-11-18T06:12:10Z

“The country is seeing a multitude of social mobilizations […].
These struggles must find a political expression, and this is in any case the will of fourteen organizations, some of which come from the radical left.”

- IV562 - November 2021 / Senegal

The authoritarian liberalism of President Macky Sall

Paul Martial — 2021-03-30T10:19:02Z

“This exceptional mobilization shows the frustration of a youth without a future, victim of a deterioration of its living conditions. The answer lies in a deep social transformation of the country, which is absent from Ousmane Sonko's agenda when we see his party's programme.”

- IV554 - March 2021 / Senegal