Senegal: 81.06 billion CFA francs for digital in 2026
The budget of the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy devotes nearly 60% of its funds to investment: sovereign cloud, digital identity, network coverage and online public services.
- 81.06 billion CFA francs for the digital ministry in 2026.
- Nearly 60% for investment: sovereign cloud, digital identity, network, public services.
- The Technology New Deal’s goal: Senegal as a digital power by 2034.
The National Assembly has approved a 2026 budget of 81.06 billion CFA francs for the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy. Nearly 60% of this sum, about 48.6 billion, is to finance investment in digital transformation.
What the budget is to finance
- Rolling out a sovereign cloud
- Biometric digital identity
- Extending network coverage across the whole country
- Digitising public services
- Free connectivity for a million vulnerable citizens from 2026
These projects are part of the “Technology New Deal” led by President Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, which aims to make Senegal a sovereign digital power and an African tech hub by 2034.
The budget as voted does not yet say how these amounts are split between projects. That is what will need to be followed over the year, project by project.
- Sénégal : un budget numérique record pour propulser la transformation digitale en 2026, Afrique IT News.
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