Practical guides, market trends and stratégies to develop your digital présence in Sénégal and West Africa.
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A paper waybill loses ~12% of carrier time. Digitalization (eCMR, mobile-signed ePOD) accelerates billing + cuts disputes 70%.
Glovo and Yango dominate but charge 22-28% commission. A profitable local last-mile startup exists from 200 orders/day. 2026 architecture.
A Dakar-Abidjan truck = 4 borders + 18-36h customs. Digital track-and-trace + ECOWAS ALISA = -50% border time.
Connecting shippers (SMEs, manufacturers) to carriers (8,000 SMEs in West Africa) via digital marketplace = 25-40% savings + 60% speed.
Dakar Autonomous Port: 28M tonnes/year. Abidjan: 30M. ORBUS/GAINDE digitalization enables pre-declaration + payment = -60% time. 2026 state.
Full 2026 comparison of web hosting options for Senegal SMEs and e-commerce: Hostinger, OVH, Cloudways, SiteGround, PRO TIC, Arc Informatique. FCFA/year pricing, Africa performance, support, recommendations per site type.
Everything you need to buy and manage a domain name in 2026: .sn .com .fr .africa .ci extensions, registrars Namecheap Gandi OVH NIC.sn, yearly pricing, transfer, DNS, WHOIS privacy and red flags to avoid.
Full 2026 comparison of pro email suites: Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Zoho Mail. Per-user pricing, features (Mail Drive Meet Doc), DNS MX SPF DKIM DMARC, migration and recommendations per team size.
Full 2026 comparison of CDNs for websites targeting Africa: Cloudflare (free + Pro + Business), Bunny.net, Fastly, AWS CloudFront. Lagos Joburg Cairo POPs, Dakar latency, per-GB pricing and image optimization.
2026 guide to website SSL/HTTPS certificates: Let's Encrypt free auto vs paid (Sectigo, DigiCert, GlobalSign), DV vs OV vs EV, wildcard, installation Cloudflare host manual, SEO impact and trust.
Website maintenance 2026: 3 monthly plan tiers (basic 50-150K, standard 150-400K, premium 400K-1.5M FCFA), detailed contents, Senegal and France examples, points to negotiate in your contract.
WordPress security 2026: 30-point checklist (2FA, plugins, wp-config hardening, xmlrpc, CSP/HSTS headers, Wordfence/Sucuri/iThemes, file permissions, pen-test). Avoid 90 % of compromises.