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The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and Africa investor (Ai) are joining forces to launch a digitally empowered eTrade initiative to enable the digitisation of five million micro-, s... Read more
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The Corona virus has re-written the rules of life as we know it, both in our personal spaces and in business. It has also given us a chance to re-set at a scale never before imaginable at th... Read more
President: Macky Sall
President of the National Assembly: Moustapha Niasse
Capital city: Dakar
Languages: French (official), Wolof, Pulaar, Jola, Mandinka
Population, persons: 15,854,360 (2018)
Area, sq km: 192,530
GDP per capita, US$: 1,522 (2018)
GDP, billion current US$: 24.1 (2018)
GINI index: 40.3 (2011)
Ease of Doing Business rank: 123
