Dakar, Senegal

Issues raised need objective answers In a 10-point press statement, FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf responds to recent criticisms of the...

Fatim Badjie, the secretary of state for Communications, Information and Information Technology (DOSCIIT),  accompanied by some senior staff of her...

Reports monitored by the Daily Observer indicate that Senegalese High Schools are being hit by supernatural phenomenon. Since last Friday school...

Mali and Ghana are Africa’s second and third largest gold-producing countries, but with most of the income leaving the country they remain entrenched...

Eighteen months after suspending field operations, the International Committee of the Red Cross is once more present on the ground in Fogny, northern...

While driving a rusty old yellow taxi through Dakar’s potholed streets looking for customers, Abdou Ndoye told IRIN how he and his family of nine...

A crackdown by police against Senegalese citizens who gathered in the capital Dakar on 30 March to protest the high cost of living was “brutal”, say...

Banks are the privileged partners of the Central Bank and the main media for the implementation of its monetary policy. In its capacity as Central...

Definition The CFA Franc is the common currency of 14 African countries which are members of the Franc Zone, namely : • Benin, Burkina, Côte...

Issue of currency The Central Bank has the sole right of currency issue throughout West African Member States member States. ...