Senegal: the last country standing

Amidst the violence and misery that plague the rest of the Sahel, Senegal is a beacon of hope: very poor, to be sure, and with an exploding population (the median age is 19), but it is peaceful and democratic.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with former Senegalese president Macky Sall. What West Africa needs is a virtuous cycle of growth. What it has is the biggest vicious circle in the world, writes Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of the U.S. State Department/Freddie Everett

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

April 3, 2024

LONDON, U.K.—The crisis in Senegal, the one country in West Africa that has never had a military coup, has passed. Few people outside Africa were paying close attention to it, but I’m sure you will be pleased to know that democracy has survived.

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