Dakar, Senegal

Empty cans used for begging line the entrance of a house in the overcrowded neighbourhood of Grand Yoff in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, where a...

According to news monitored on the Senegalese state television, President Abdoulaye Wade last Friday reconciled with Macky Sall, the Speaker of the...

The leader of the Mouride brotherhood in Senegalese, Serigne Saliou Mbacké, passed away on Friday night in Touba, the country’s second urban...

On the campus of Cheikh Anta Diop University in the Senegal capital Dakar, physically handicapped students can often be seen crawling unaided up...

In Senegal drug traffickers stand to face 10 to 20 years of hard labour, double the current punishment, under a new law adopted in parliament. ...

With levels of malnutrition in West Africa slightly lower in 2007 than the previous year, the overall amount of money aid organizations are...

Critics say donors at a recent high-level meeting failed to make firm funding commitments for improving education, particularly in impoverished,...

Senegal’s public opinion and Islamic scholars, on Friday, gave credit to President Jammeh’s cure against HIV/AIDS. Jammeh’s cure was the debate...

Violence against women, human trafficking and migration are expected to lead the agenda of a new West Africa office of the UN human rights...