Senegal, Africa

Ibra Niang, 22, was recently one of the estimated 100,000 young people who enter Senegal’s stark job market each year. After seeing many of his...

 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...

Environmental officials are calling for funds to document the deterioration of Senegal’s coast and take action to save coastal communities. “We need...

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...

An elderly man opened fire on fans at a Senegal rap concert he believed were making fun of him by singing a song about cranky old men, police say.The...