November 2025 | BAOBIZEZ

South Korea and Senegal: two fates, one departure, and two worlds apart

10 November 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

How a country ruined by war has become a world power while another, promised a bright future, still struggles to transform its independence into prosperity. In the early 1960s, South Korea and Senegal had almost similar starting points: rural poverty, dependence on foreign aid, weakness ...

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Senegal: The truth about hidden debt: Anatomy of a manipulation of public accounts

9 November 20259 November 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

In recent months, a wide-ranging debate has shaken the Senegalese economic sphere: that of hidden debt, revealed by the Court of Auditors and confirmed by the IMF. Between hidden figures, makeup budgets and undeclared commitments, this case exposes the fragility of the country's financial governance under the former regime. This article proposes ...

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Virtual Masters: How African online scams trap the world

8 November 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

From Lagos to Abidjan, through Accra or Cotonou, a new parallel economy has been built in the shadow of screens. It does not produce goods or services, but manipulates human emotions, dreams and flaws. The online scams, once marginal, have become a real social and economic phenomenon, revealing both genius, ...

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Thiaroye 1944: The massacre of forgotten heroes

7 November 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

There are pages of history that one would never want to turn, as they tell pain, injustice and ingratitude. The massacre of Thiaroye, which occurred in Senegal on 1 December 1944, is one of them. In the aftermath of the Second World War, as France barely recovered from the ruins of the occupation, soldiers ...

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Is a financial bubble forming around artificial intelligence?

6 November 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

Between the promise of technological revolution and the sudden speculation, the border becomes thinner and thinner. While the announcement of investments is in tens of billions of dollars and every technology giant claims its "revolution IA", a question arises: are we not witnessing the formation of a new bubble ...

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Dakar, the city in tension: poverty, despair and social divide, understanding the roots of urban crime

5 November 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

The Senegalese capital under pressure: a youth trapped between survival and disillusionment Dakar, once a showcase of Senegalese dynamism, has now become a laboratory of social tensions. As the city expands, it accumulates its contradictions: wealth and insecurity coexist, hope and despair clash. In the peripheral districts (Keur Massar, Yeumbeul, Malika, Guédiawaye, Rufisque) ...

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The German colonial empire in Africa: territories and major crimes

4 November 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

A late and brutal empire When the Berlin Conference opened in 1884, Germany, united for just thirteen years, arrived in the colonial race with a delay which it intended to fill by force and method. Under the leadership of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, fourteen European powers come together to share the African continent, ...

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Sheikh Anta Diop: The Prophet of African Rebirth

3 November 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

A Premonitory Thought on the Sovereignty, Science and Unity of the Continent Portrait of an out-of-standard scholar Sheikh Anta Diop (1923-1986) was one of the greatest African intellectuals of the twentieth century. Historian, anthropologist, linguist, physicist and Senegalese politician, he embodied the thought of African dignity and the conquest of intellectual sovereignty. Trained at the Sorbonne, ...

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When Europe was the continent of migrants: The historical reminder needed in the face of the contemporary hatred of immigrants

2 November 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

As hate speech against immigrants rises in Europe and in the United States, it becomes essential to recall a historical truth that many prefer to forget: Europe has long been the main source of emigration from the world. Millions of Europeans have once left their lands, driven out by poverty, hunger and war, to go ...

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Europe in the face of Trumpian temptation: the peril of anti-immigrant populist drift

1 November 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

Since Donald Trump's re-election for a second term in the White House and the revival of his aggressive migration policies: raids on the streets, mass evictions, and uncomplicated identity rhetoric, a chilling wind blows over Western democracies. From Rome to Paris, from Madrid to Berlin, the extreme European straight feel comforted ...

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