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About Dakar

Timezone: Africa/Dakar

Dakar is the capital and largest city of Senegal. The department of Dakar has a population of 1,278,469, and the population of the Dakar metropolitan area was at 4.0 million in 2023.

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Dakar
Dakar (/dɑːˈkɑːr, dæ-/ UK also: /ˈdækɑːr/; French: [dakaʁ]; Wolof: Ndakaaru) is the capital and largest city of Senegal. The department of Dakar has a
Dakar Rally
The Dakar Rally (French: Le Rallye Dakar) or simply "The Dakar" (Le Dakar), formerly known as the Paris–Dakar Rally (Le Rallye Paris-Dakar), is an annual
Dakar (disambiguation)
Look up Dakar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dakar is the capital and largest city of Senegal. Dakar may also refer to: Dakar Region, one of the 14

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📰 From the news 12 Oct 2026

Medical certificates on a hospital's letterhead, a 'doctor' the hospital had never heard of, seized medical equipment: the two foreign nationals arrested in Ouakam, Dakar, in February 2026

Senegal regulates its doctors through the Ordre des médecins, and the rule Thieysenegal restated when it reported this case is simple: only practitioners who h…

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📰 From the news 12 Oct 2026

A thesis-defence attestation dated February 2024, a 200,000 FCFA internship and six years of study without a seventh: the Dakar student tried for forging her way into Clinique Océan

Dakar's private medical universities take students from neighbouring countries as well as from Senegal itself, and the training is long. As the Senegalese pres…

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📰 From the news 12 Oct 2026

Three men aged 47 to 49, several years in Dakar operating theatres and 400,000 FCFA for a goitre operation never performed: the Abass Ndao arrests of September 2025

Dakar is the centre of Senegal's medical training and hospital system, and Abass Ndao is one of the capital's public hospitals. An operating theatre is meant t…

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📰 From the news 1 Oct 2026

A nursing diploma bought from a contact in Morocco for a promotion at a Dakar health centre, a forged-documents network in Pikine, and the medical certificates of Ouakam: Senegal's paper problem

Senegal's health system runs on certificates, for employment, for promotion, for leave, and the cases of 2025 and 2026 show forgeries at each level. According …

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Medical certificates on a hospital's letterhead, a 'doctor' the hospital had never heard of, seized medical equipment: the two foreign nationals arrested in Ouakam, Dakar, in February 2026

A thesis-defence attestation dated February 2024, a 200,000 FCFA internship and six years of study without a seventh: the Dakar student tried for forging her way into Clinique Océan

Three men aged 47 to 49, several years in Dakar operating theatres and 400,000 FCFA for a goitre operation never performed: the Abass Ndao arrests of September 2025

A nursing diploma bought from a contact in Morocco for a promotion at a Dakar health centre, a forged-documents network in Pikine, and the medical certificates of Ouakam: Senegal's paper problem

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