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 11 – Music legend Baaba Maal, who was born in Podor promises to fight to stop the desertification in the Sahel by planting trees.[5]
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.[6]
