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Owning an electronic wallet is not enough to join the financial system. A white paper relayed by CIO Mag puts a number on the gap between accounts opened and accounts in use, and proposes four workstreams to make mobile money an everyday tool.
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Opening the 42nd General Assembly of the Council of Bureaux in Dakar on Tuesday, the scheme’s permanent secretary general said digital certificates would be rolled out across the region from January 2027. The aim: retire a paper document that is hard to check and speed up payouts to accident victims who are left waiting.
Approved by the cabinet in February 2025, the Digital Governance Committee was formally installed late last week by Prime Minister Ahmadou Al Aminou Mohamed Lô. It is meant to vet ministries’ projects, weed out duplication and keep the costs of the New Technological Deal in check.
The Ivorian fintech is preparing a $40 million Series C, the largest in its history if it closes. Its founders want to lock in profitability in Abidjan first, then push across Francophone West Africa, where Wave is waiting. No investors have been named yet.
The Senegalese Association for Economic Intelligence, chaired by Amadou Cissé, set out its 2026 programme on October 18: training, conferences and a push to get organisations to protect their data. So far the plan comes with no timetable, no public partner and no figures.
Presented in Dakar on Friday, a report by the Cheikh Hamidou Kane Digital University, based on 5,037 students and 159 lecturers, is the first national snapshot of generative AI in Senegalese higher education. It finds the tools firmly embedded among those who know them, and a third of students left out.
To mark fifty years of its signals corps, Senegal’s military on Friday co-hosted the first Africa Cyber Network conference with a private company. Vice Admiral Oumar Wade urged government agencies, businesses, universities and citizens to take a share in defending the country’s cyberspace.
GuideSenegal’s police are warning about fake streaming apps, spread over WhatsApp, that steal mobile money PINs and then empty accounts from the victims’ own phones. How these programs work, the warning signs, and the Android settings worth checking tonight.
Shareholders in the Senegalese telecoms operator approved a 1-for-10 split on October 8. Each share becomes ten, the par value falls from 500 to 50 CFA francs and the price of roughly 45,000 CFA francs will be divided accordingly. What investors own is worth exactly the same.