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 29 — President Macky Sall pardons his rival, the former mayor of Dakar, Khalifa Sall, who was jailed in 2018 for corruption.[3]
November 19 – West Africa's largest mosque opens in Touba at a cost of US $50 million.[4]
December 24 – Midnight mass is celebrated as the first event leading to the reopening of the the Cathedral of Saint Louis, the first Christian Church in West Africa, in the city of Saint-Louis, Senegal.[5]
