Seneweb.com
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Type of site | Generalist |
|---|---|
| Available in | French |
| Owner | Abdoulaye Salam Madior Fall[1] |
| URL | Seneweb.com |
| Launched | 2000 |
| Current status | Active |
Seneweb.com is a web portal with content mainly geared to the Senegalese community in both Senegal and around the world.
History[edit]
Seneweb was founded in 1999 by Abdoulaye Salam Madior Fall. In 2000 Daouda Mbaye became the Co-owner of Seneweb.
Within a few months, the site knows resounding success especially among the Senegalese diaspora. The number of Internet-connected in Senegal did not exceed 40,000 in 2000. It was one of the few web sites to cover the presidential election campaign.[2] As well as news, it hosts streaming video and audio and political forums.
A few years after its inception, the portal has become the most visited and popular in Francophone West Africa. Every day there are hundreds of thousands of Internet users who log on Seneweb, which is unquestionably the Senegalese Web giant. Today Seneweb is ranked first among Senegalese sites only content.
Seneweb is also classified as the 2,176th site of the most visited websites on the internet from 234 million worldwide, according to Alexa. Seneweb receives on average per month more than 4,000,000 (four million) of visitors and over thirty million page views per month.[3]
The majority of visitors come respectively from Senegal, France, the United States and other African countries.
In July 2015 Seneweb launches mobile application available on Appstore and Playstore.
| Member | Position |
|---|---|
| Abdou Salam Madior Fall | CEO & Founder |
| Daouda Mbaye | Co-owner |
| Demba Makalou | Manager |
| Daouda Mine | Chief Editor |
| Moustapha Ndiaye | Content Coordinator |
| Demba Gueye | Editor |
| Raphael Senghor | Project chief/Programmer |
| Basile Niane | Blogger |
| Mamadou Mansour Diop | Editor/Community Manager |
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Osiris zoom salam Archived 2014-08-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Les sites internet et la campagne electorale". Observatoire sur les Systèmes d’Information, les Réseaux et les Inforoutes au Sénégal. 4 May 2007. Retrieved 27 October 2009.
- ^ "Alexa Stats". Archived from the original on 2016-04-09. Retrieved 2015-08-12.