Senegal, Africa

The 2008 Global Hunger Index (GHI) says sub-Saharan African countries have the highest level of hunger in the world, with Niger, Sierra Leone and...

Lamine Ndiaye has been sacked as coach of Senegal following the team's failure to reach the final phase of qualifying for the 2010 World Cup and...

Senegal's failure to qualify to the final stage of qualifying for the 2010 World and Africa Cup of Nations was met by a hail of missiles from their...

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, has appealed to international donors not to cut back on aid to humanitarian programmes amid...

Mangroves, one of the world’s richest ecosystems, are declining in Casamance, southern Senegal, and thinning forests spurred the Senegal-based...

Investing in solar energy could bring electricity to millions of Senegalese, significantly reduce electricity bills in the long term, and attract...

For years, farmers in one of Senegal’s most mango-rich zones, Keur Mbir Ndao, 80km east of the capital, were losing more than half their harvests....

Thousands of people have been displaced from their homes in two districts of Dakar where houses should never have been built, according to Seydou...

El Malick Seck, jailed editor-in-chief of 24 Heures Chrono, a privately-owned newspaper, will on October 28, 2008 appear before a court in Dakar to...

Poor rains and rising rice prices have contributed to increasing malnutrition to alarming levels in at least three regions of Senegal. Following a...