SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

8 domains mapped · Code: SN

These are jurisdiction-specific research-progress records. They expose first moves, likely actors, and institutional infrastructure where mapped; they are not a claim that every country has a finished statutory memo for all 61 domains.

Canonical domain beta-W from Fisheries. Local route severity is a country-route triage value and is not used in the aggregate portfolio.

PRIMARY ROUTE:Senegal's fisheries face severe overfishing by foreign industrial fleets (EU, China) competing with artisanal pirogues. When per-vessel catch data is published alongside stock assessments, W becomes computable.

4 actor-lane actions mapped

Canonical domain beta-W from Oil & Gas Extraction. Local route severity is a country-route triage value and is not used in the aggregate portfolio.

PRIMARY ROUTE:Senegal became an oil producer in 2024 with Woodside's Sangomar field and a gas producer through the cross-border Grand Tortue Ahmeyim project with Mauritania, and the public welfare risk is that contract terms and revenue capture leave most value with operators while coastal fisheries and the climate bear the cost. Senegal has the legal tools to address the trap because its 2019 Petroleum Code and the COS-Petrogaz oversight body already exist to renegotiate fiscal terms and ringfence revenue.

4 actor-lane actions mapped

Canonical domain beta-W from Mining & Rare Earth Extraction. Local route severity is a country-route triage value and is not used in the aggregate portfolio.

PRIMARY ROUTE:Senegal's phosphate industry around ICS at Taiba and the Sabodala-Massawa gold operations in the east generate export revenue while leaving acid drainage, mercury contamination from artisanal gold, and depleted land near host communities. The route is viable because the 2016 Mining Code mandates a local development fund and rehabilitation bonds that the state can enforce rather than waive.

4 actor-lane actions mapped

Canonical domain beta-W from Groundwater / Ogallala Aquifer. Local route severity is a country-route triage value and is not used in the aggregate portfolio.

PRIMARY ROUTE:Dakar and the Niayes market-gardening belt draw heavily on aquifers that are over-pumped and contaminated by salt intrusion and fluoride, threatening the water supply for both the capital and the horticulture that feeds it. The route is viable because Senegal manages water under a public-domain legal regime and the OFOR rural water reform already gives the state authority to meter, price, and cap abstraction.

4 actor-lane actions mapped

Canonical domain beta-W from Plastics and Petrochemical Waste. Local route severity is a country-route triage value and is not used in the aggregate portfolio.

PRIMARY ROUTE:Senegal's coastline, the Dakar peninsula, and waterways like Hann Bay are choked with single-use plastic that clogs drainage, fouls fishing grounds, and burns in open dumps. The route is viable because Senegal already passed a 2020 law banning many single-use plastics and the state controls the import and waste-management chain that determines whether the ban bites.

4 actor-lane actions mapped

Canonical domain beta-W from Deforestation & Industrial Logging. Local route severity is a country-route triage value and is not used in the aggregate portfolio.

PRIMARY ROUTE:Senegal loses forest cover in the south to illegal rosewood logging trafficked through The Gambia to China, stripping the Casamance of mature timber and accelerating soil loss and conflict-economy financing. The route is viable because rosewood is a CITES-listed species, giving Senegal and its neighbours a legal hook to seize shipments and prosecute the trafficking networks.

4 actor-lane actions mapped

Canonical domain beta-W from Gig Economy Platforms. Local route severity is a country-route triage value and is not used in the aggregate portfolio.

PRIMARY ROUTE:Most of Senegal's urban workforce earns through informal and platform-mediated work, from Yango and Heetch drivers in Dakar to delivery riders, with no social protection, opaque pay, and no recourse when a platform changes its terms. The route is viable because Senegal already operates a formal social-security and health-coverage framework through IPRES and the CMU that informal and platform workers can be brought into.

4 actor-lane actions mapped

Canonical domain beta-W from Sovereign Debt & Intergenerational Extraction. Local route severity is a country-route triage value and is not used in the aggregate portfolio.

PRIMARY ROUTE:Senegal's debt burden was revised sharply upward in 2024 when undisclosed liabilities surfaced, pushing the country into an IMF programme suspension and crowding out spending on health, education, and water. The route is viable because the misreporting was institutional rather than physical, and debt transparency rules under the IMF and WAEMU convergence framework can be enforced.

4 actor-lane actions mapped

© 2026 Erik Postnieks · Independent Researcher · Salt Lake City