Senegal, Africa

It was virtually all the Senegambian cultural actors and particularly the cinema and the drama personalities who have been mourning a charismatic...

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. ...

If West African governments are serious about reducing migration from their countries they must invest in improving living conditions and reducing...

If West African governments are serious about reducing migration from their countries they must invest in improving living conditions and reducing...

Rebels belonging to the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) kidnapped 16 villagers in Bissine, 64 km east of Ziguinchor near the...

As up to 800 additional refugees prepare to return home to Mauritania from Senegal this week, some of them told IRIN they were confident about the...

The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Jakob Kellenberger, is in the Senegalese capital Dakar to attend the 11th...