2019 in Senegal

Events in the year 2019 in Senegal.

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See also:	Other events of 2019 Timeline of Senegalese history

Incumbents

• President: Macky Sall
• Prime Minister: Mahammed Dionne

Events

• February 24 – President Macky Sall wins a second term with 58% of the vote in the 2019 Senegalese presidential election.^[1]
• July 29 — Journalist Adama Gaye (Kapital Afrik, Jeune Afrique, France 24, TV5Monde, and Al Jazeera) is arrested and charged with acting to compromise public security and offending the president.^[2]
• September 27 — The opening of Massalikoul Djinane Mosque.^[3]
• September 29 — President Macky Sall pardons his rival, the former mayor of Dakar, Khalifa Sall, who was jailed in 2018 for corruption.^[4]
• November 19 – West Africa's largest mosque opens in Touba at a cost of US $50 million.^[5]
• December 11 – Music legend Baaba Maal, who was born in Podor promises to fight to stop the desertification in the Sahel by planting trees.^[6]
• December 24 – Midnight mass is celebrated as the first event leading to the reopening of the Cathedral of Saint Louis, the first Christian Church in West Africa, in the city of Saint-Louis, Senegal.^[7]

Deaths

 

Colette Senghor

• 18 February – Kor Sarr, footballer (b. 1975).^[8]
• 1 March – Maïmouna Kane, politician (b. 1937).^[9]
• 18 November – Colette Senghor, 93, wife of Léopold Sédar Senghor, died in Verson, Normandy, France.^[10]

References

1. "Senegal election: President Macky Sall wins second term", BBC News, February 28, 2019, retrieved August 10, 2019
2. "Senegalese authorities arrest critical journalist Adama Gaye", Committee to Protect Journalists, August 9, 2019, retrieved August 10, 2019
3. Laplace, Manon (3 October 2019). "West Africa's largest and grandest mosque opens in Dakar". The Africa Report. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
4. Diadie Ba; Edward McAllister (Sep 29, 2019), "Senegal president pardons political rival Khalifa Sall", Yahoo! News: Reuters, retrieved Sep 29, 2019
5. Senegal inaugurates largest mosque in West Africa by Nicolas Haque, Al Jazeera, 19 Nov 2020
6. The music legend fighting to stop desertification in the Sahel BBC News, Retrieved 21 Jan 2020
7. El renacimiento del primer templo cristiano en África Occidental El Pais (Madrid), 26 Dec 2020
8. "L'ancien joueur du Stade Malherbe Caen, Korr Sarr, est décédé". tendanceouest.com (in French). Retrieved 19 February 2019.
9. Nécrologie : Maimouna Kane, première femme ministre tire sa révérence (in French)
10. Colette Senghor, wife of Senegal's poet-president, dies in France Al Jazeera, 19 Nov 2019