Senegal, Africa

Despite growing for centuries in some of the driest, toughest agricultural zones of West Africa, the fonio cereal has been neglected by most...

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...

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

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. ...

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 global food and fuel price crisis presents a “strategic opportunity” to West African states to become more food-secure according to agricultural...

The leader of Senegal’s Ecologist Party, Ali Aïdar, has call on President Abdoulaye Wade to learn from President Yahya Jammeh’s governance method. ...

Issues raised need objective answers In a 10-point press statement, FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf responds to recent criticisms of the...

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...

 Nutrition experts say governments are not investing enough to prevent and treat malnutrition in women and children in poor countries. “The...