The Gambia recorded 1,729 ransomware threat detections in 2024, placing it among the ten most targeted countries in Africa for cyberattacks, according to INTERPOL’s newly released 2025 Africa Cyberthreat Assessment Report. In the report, the international police organisation warned that cyber-enabled crime is expanding rapidly across the continent, driven by[Read More…]
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Senegal’s Mane Living The Dream Of Millions Of Africans
Sadio Mane is the embodiment of the dreams of millions of young Africans, emerging from a small village in Senegal to play at the highest level in Europe and become an international icon. The diminutive attacker defied his family, who did not want him to play soccer, to sneak away[Read More…]
Senegal Carry Africa’s Best Hopes In Qatar
African champions Senegal carry the continent’s best prospect of breaking barriers at the World Cup finals and hope to atone for a miserable last tournament in Russia where they were eliminated on disciplinary points. Senegal are one of three African nations who have reached the quarter-finals of the World Cup,[Read More…]
The Stakes In Senegal’s 2022 Legislative Polls
Six months after the local elections, the Senegalese voters are once again called to the polls for a new composition of the National Assembly. In principle, the July 31, 2022 legislative elections are the beginning of a sprint down the stretch that leads directly to the February 2024 Presidential elections.[Read More…]
Guinea Bissau: Church Of Santa Isabel De Gabú Vandalised
A group of unidentified individuals recently vandalised the parish church of Santa Isabel de Gabú in the eastern part of Guinea-Bissau. Religious leaders are worried about growing religious extremism. Casimiro Jorge Cajucam – Guiné-Bissau. The vandals broke the Church’s altar, destroyed holy images and went away with a symbol of[Read More…]
Senegal Sees Growing Support For African Gas Amid Ukraine War
Senegalese President Macky Sall said on Thursday there is growing international support for developing gas resources in Africa as part of the continent’s energy transition. African leaders have bristled at pledges by Western countries to eliminate or reduce development financing in Africa for gas projects in the name of fighting[Read More…]
Senegal: Protesters Demand Tougher Laws Against Same-Sex Activity
Thousands of people demonstrated Sunday in Dakar to demand a strengthening of the repression of homosexuality in Senegal after the recent rejection by the Parliament of a text hardening the laws on the matter, noted journalists of the AFP. “No to homosexuality,” chanted the demonstrators on the Place de la[Read More…]
AU Chair Macky Sall Lists Ambitions For Africa
During a visit to Egypt late last week, President Macky Sall of Senegal, who takes over the chairmanship of the African Union this February, detailed his ambitions for Africa in an interview with the most influential daily newspaper in the North African country and the Arab world. President Sall said[Read More…]
Football: Afcon Kicking Up A Fuss Outside Africa
The Africa Cup of Nations tournament which starts in Cameroon on January 9th, 2022 may be the biggest football showpiece the continent has to offer but there is a raging debate over why the media outside Africa does not give it the coverage it so richly deserves. From passive, nonchalant[Read More…]
The Last Warrior Of Africa’s ‘Forgotten Army’: Gambia And WWII
Ebou Janha, 102, is the only surviving veteran of 1 Gambia Regiment, which fought for the British fight against Japanese troops in then-Burma during the Second World War. On an early November morning, 102-year-old Ebou Janha rests a pair of pliers next to his jeweller’s anvil and collects his breath[Read More…]
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