Senegal, a small West African country of nearly 12 million people has seen bold economic reforms in the last ten years. These have paid off with annual Gross Domestic Product growth of 5% annually. This has helped to spur a flowering Information Technology sector. Now, that IT sector can lets its growth aid all of Africa. As of May 14, 2007 Senegal has an ICANN accredited registrar.

Kheweul.com is now the second ICANN-accredited registrar in Africa (the first being Internet Solutions of South Africa) and the first in West Africa. Kheweul.com has been accredited to register domain names from the .biz, .com, .info, .name, .net, .org, and .pro top-level domains.

Mouhamet Diop, Chairman and CEO of Kheweul.com believes his company can offer a more local service to connect Africans to the world:

We’re proud to be the first ICANN-accredited Registrar in West Africa and the second in Africa. Kheweul.Com is going to work closely with all African country-code top-level domain managers and all world-wide registries to provide domain name services to local African communities. We also plan to promote the digitalization of African cultural heritage and help the preserve of African multimedia content.