Stabilité énergétique : Le Sénégal évite le piège des hausses brutales
In a West Africa buffeted by tariff storms, Senegal is making the rare choice of restraint. While several neighbors are increasing their brutal energy price adjustments, often under combined pressure from the IMF, fiscal tensions, and international volatility, Dakar is favoring a moderate, almost stubbornly stable trajectory.
This refusal of the price shock is not without cost, but it produces a valuable political effect: that of appeasement. In a region where every fuel price increase can set the streets ablaze, undermine the legitimacy of a power, or crystallize long-suppressed social anger, energy stability becomes a tool of governance as much as a signal of reliability.
The country thus positions itself as an island of predictability, where energy policy also serves the narrative of an economy under control, of a state that anticipates without clashing, adjusts without breaking. It is not the absence of crisis but the art of cushioning it, in a regional context where fuel is as much a vital commodity as a latent detonator.
It remains to be seen how long this strategy will be sustainable. Behind this moderation lies a classic dilemma: how long can we delay increases without increasing the budgetary burden or slowing investment in alternative energy? By trying too hard to protect the present, we risk compromising our room for maneuver for tomorrow.
But in the meantime, Senegal's gamble holds. And in a geopolitical neighborhood wracked by upheavals, this continuity is a rare luxury.
Commentaires (3)
Le kwh du Sénégal es le plus cher au monde....
Aicha Fall , l'amie de CHATGPT !
Si le prix du KWH est stable , le Sénégal le doit à Macky et sa VISION
Depuis quelques temps, je vois des articles bien écrits, dont celui-ci, et signés par une nommée Aïcha Fall.
Félicitations et bonne continuation à vous.
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