Senegal News

Members of the Senegal army's 3rd Infantry Battalion honor platoon greet Brig. Gen. Michael W. Callan Oct.

Four months after the opening of a Liberian embassy in Dakar, Senegal, the new ambassador has pledged to further the relationship between the two West African countries.

Landmines and armed attacks in Senegal's Casamance region are preventing farmers from maximizing production from the region's fertile soil, but there is another problem, too: not enough young people are taking up farming, residents and experts say.

Moving day. Mariyata Seck looks out at the lake that was once her neighborhood in Guediwaye.

New varieties of groundnuts that are suited to the local soil and climate are part of arresting falling production.

French-Senegalese writer Marie NDiaye on Monday won France's top literary prize for a haunting novel on family, betrayal and the hellish ordeal of illegal migration from Africa.

AFRICAN music fit for emperors and kings will fill Pilton Hall in November. Kora player and singer Jali Fily, who hails from South Senegal is a Griot - a professional hereditary musician whose ancestors once advised and entertained the emperors and Kings Of Mali.

Fifteen maritime professionals from Ghana concluded three weeks of at-sea training with a graduation ceremony held on the flight deck of the Dutch Africa Partnership Station platform HNLMS Johan de Witt Oct.

Senegal's president said Tuesday that his top aide gave nearly $200,000 "in error" to an International Monetary Fund representative as a parting gift.

Dakar, Senegal - A US-based human rights group says the September 28 massacre by Guinean troops of at least 150 people and the rapes of dozens of women at a pro-democracy rally in Guinea were premeditated - and that rapes of kidnapped women continued for days.

PARIS: In a historic first, a black woman writer is a hot favourite to scoop France's top literary prize next week for a haunting novel on family, betrayal and the hellish ordeal of illegal migration from Africa.

The Sixteenth General Congregation of the Second Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops was held this morning in the presence of the Holy Father.

Picture from meeting between Iran's supreme leader, Senegal president puts to rest rumors of Khamenei's death Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's office released a picture of the leader from an official meeting he held Saturday with Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade.

Senegalese authorities failed to attend a border meeting on Wednesday aimed at easing tensions with neighbour Guinea-Bissau that have led to a military build-up in the region, officials said.

Cardinal Theodore-Adrien Sarr of Dakar, Senegal, said, "We want to be helped, but helped in the name of truth, with respect of what we are and what we want for ourselves." He continued, "Western populations think that their life is the model for everybody, but it's not the case.

Aid workers are evaluating the needs of families recently displaced by armed conflict in Casamance, southern Senegal.

Senegalese Charge De Affairs and Ext. Potentiary to the UAE Mamadou Kon, has lauded the humanitarian initiatives shouldered by President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan to ease burden on people in the conflict and calamity zones, particularly in Africa.

'The aim of creating the Orgnisation of the Islamic Conference is to follow up the Palestinian issue and therefore the OIC has an important responsibility,' Khamenei told Senegal's Abdoulaye Wade.

An inspiring African woman has spent three months working with a Derry charity to kickstart a career helping people on her home continent.

The Spanish Magdala Foundation has launched a five-year project providing micro-loans to impoverished women in northern Senegal.