2022 in Senegal

Events in the year 2022 in Senegal.

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Decades:	2000s 2010s 2020s
See also:	Other events of 2022 Timeline of Senegalese history

Incumbents

• President: Macky Sall (since 2012)^[1]

Events

Ongoing – COVID-19 pandemic in Senegal

May

• 26 May: A hospital fire kills 11 babies in a neonatal ward. As a result, Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr is sacked as Minister of Health.^[2]

July

• 31 July: 2022 Senegalese parliamentary election^[3]

December

• 1 December: In the National Assembly pregnant MP Amy Ndiaye is attacked by fellow MPs Mamadou Niang and Massata Samb.^[4]

Deaths

• 17 January: Karim Ouellet, 37, Senegalese-born Canadian singer-songwriter.^[5]
• 18 June: Mamadou Sarr, 83, Olympic sprinter (1968).^[6]
• 18 November: Youssou Diagne, 84, politician, president of the National Assembly (2001–2002).^[7]