January 7 – Diary Sow, 20, a student at Paris's
Lycée Louis-le-Grand and known as "Senegal's best pupil," is reported missing.[2] She apologized for her disappearance on January 22.[3]
January 8 – An outbreak of
H5N1 (bird flu) is reported on a farm in
Thiès. 58,000 of the 100,000 flock have been killed and the others
culled.[4]
January 9 – COVID-19 pandemic: Health Minister
Ousseynou Badiane says Senegal does not have sufficient cold storage facilities for either the
Pfizer–BioNTech or
Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, and the country is awaiting vaccines through the World Health Organization-backed global
COVAX scheme.[5]
January 13 – Police used
tear gas to break up a demonstration in Ngor,
Dakar after President
Macky Sall declared a 9 p.m.–5 a.m. curfew in Dakar and
Thiès Region. Other demonstrations took place in Medina and Yoff areas and suburban
Pikine,
Guédiawaye, and
Thiaroye.[6]
January 27 – Three teenagers are arrested in a 2020 arson in
Denver that killed five Senegalese immigrants to the United States.[8]
February 8 – Supporters of opposition leader
Ousmane Sonko clash with police in
Dakar on Monday after is accused of rape.[9]
February 11 – The
army seizes several hectares of marijuana cultivation and a rebel base in
Casamance.[10]
February 25 – Senegal is one of four countries added to the
Financial Action Task Force (FATF) list of places that are only partially in compliance with international efforts against financing terrorism and money laundering.[11]
March and April
March 3 –
Ousmane Sonko, opposition leader, is arrested on charges of disturbing the public order. He has also been accused of rape.[12]
March 4
Supporters of Ousmane Sonko clash with police in Dakar and one person is killed in
Bignona, Ziguinchor Region. Services of two private television stations are suspended.[13]
Senegalese in New York protest Sonko's arrest in front of the
United Nations.[14]
March 5 – The death toll in the pro-Sonko demonstrations reaches four.[15]
March 6 – A 17-year-old boy is shot during a demonstration in
Vélingara Department. ECOWAS calls for calm and freedom to demonstrate.[16]
March 8 – Ousmane Sonko is released from custody, but two more people are killed when police fire
tear gas and
rubber bullets at crowds in Dakar.[17]