Dakar, Senegal

 The UN World Health Organization’s meningitis vaccine stockpile programme has already tapped into its inventory, weeks before the worst of the...

Fifty-three million children under five are expected to be reached across eight West African countries in a coordinated polio immunization campaign...

The Senegalese government has invested millions of dollars in the past decade to revive sesame production, but the sector has been slow to develop....

Fuel and fertiliser price hikes, insect infestations and chemical damage to soil have led some cotton farmers in West Africa to produce organic...

Hearing of the appeal case filed by El-Malick Seck, a publisher of Dakar-based Daily24 Heures Chrono newspaper, has been adjourned to February 16,...

An international financial recession threatens to worsen the “severe medical workforce crisis” faced by almost 60 African and Asian countries,...

The Dakar is renowned as one of the world’s great motor sport adventures: a race through dunes and deserts to the Senegalese capital. But any...

While albinos in West Africa are not facing the violent attacks seen in recent weeks in other parts of the continent, people with albinism in...

Abdoulaye Wade has survived an assissanation attempt last night in a Dakar suburb. Last night's attempt on the life of the octogenarian president was...

Humanitarian policy-makers have endorsed internationally-agreed standards on rebuilding education sectors shattered by crises, in a move experts say...