Senegal, Africa

Experts say many of the right conditions are in place across West Africa to make cash distributions work in the current global food price crisis. ...

The Senegalese police on August 28, 2008 stormed the premises of 24 Heures Chrono, a privately-owned, Dakar-based daily newspaper, sealed off its...

The Senegalese Police on August 27, 2008, arrested nine men suspected of perpetrating attacks on two privately-owned, Dakar-based newspapers. On...

The offices of 24 Heures Chrono and L’As, two privately-owned, Dakar-based newspapers, were on August 17, 2008 ransacked by a group of men driving...

Up to 2.1 million Senegalese are facing food insecurity linked to high food prices and a poor 2007 harvest, according to an inter-ministerial...

The soaring price of cashew nuts in Senegal’s restive southern region Casamance is lining the pockets of armed rebels according to Ismaïla Diédhiou,...

A man was executed during a robbery by rebels on a road in the southern Casamance region of Senegal on 22 July, the latest indication of resurgent...

In the Dakar suburb of Thiaroye/Mer earlier this year 22 children died from lead poisoning over a three month period and in June a further 31...

Momodou Alasan Ceesay (GHE) Anna John Ceesay (Region 1 Directorate) and family regret to announce the death of their daughter, Sohna Ceesay who...