Senegal’s national tax authority, the Direction Générale des Impôts et des Domaines (DGID), has confirmed a cyberattack involving the unauthorized access and publication of sensitive government data. The breach is attributed to a transnational extortion group known as Black Shrantac, which has begun leaking DGID files on a dark web site and demanding ransom payments. […]

When several Senegalese women’s basketball players were denied U.S. visas, Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko took action—swift, symbolic, and headline-grabbing. He canceled the team’s training camp in the U.S., relocating it to Dakar and framing the decision as an act of sovereignty and national dignity. And maybe he was right to stand firm. But was this […]