Momar Dieng, Senegal, is the founding director of the news and investigative website Impact.sn.

He was previousy director of the daily Tribune and the former editor-in-chief of the newspaper Enquête. Dieng was a correspondent in France for the Senegalese daily Walfadjri.

He is a founding member of the Norbert Zongo Cell for Investigative Journalists (Cenozo) in West Africa and a collaborator of OCCRP. He has been a freelance journalist for several years and is a member of the ICIJ.

Dieng has worked as a reporter and an editor for several Senegalese newspapers including Tribune, Enquête and Le Quotidien. He regularly participates in various investigative journalism projects around the world (Swiss Leaks, Pandora Papers, FinCEN Files, West Africa Leaks, Senegal Offshore Oil Reserves, among others).

He is passionate about geopolitics, diplomacy and investigations related to the problem of economic and financial governance of public resources.

Momar Dieng

Basic information

Name
Momar Dieng
Title
Founding director
Country
Senegal
City
Dakar
LinkedIn
Momar Dieng
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Supported projects

How China's appetite for peanuts slams Senegal's own arachis oil industry

  • Agriculture
  • Economy
  • Industry

PARIS - DAKAR - Over the last decade, the Chinese appetite has made peanuts the new "gold" of Senegal. The two countries signed an agreement in 2014 and China is now the leading importer of Senegalese peanuts.

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Mafia in Africa 2

  • Industry
  • Organised crime

DAKAR - Mafia in Africa 2 exposes the fraudulent business empire of Italian criminal Curio Pintus, who was sentenced to three years in jail in 2001 for laundering drug money for the 'ndrangheta, but remains active as CEO of US “merchant bank”, the Pintus Group.

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