Senegal News

President Lee Myung-bak yesterday pledged to more than double Seoul's official development aid to Africa over the next three years in a meeting with his Senegalese counterpart Abdoulaye Wade, Cheong Wa Dae officials said.

With presidential elections in Senegal still two years away, the tide is conspicuously turning against the ruling Parti Democratic Senegalais of the ageing and politically savvy Abdoulaye Wade.

Senegalese educators, government ministers and international partners gathered at a primary school in Dakar Friday to hear what children had to say about their rights.

A book published this month throws new light on one of colonial Africa's darkest hours, revealing casual attitudes to extreme violence and the use of psychology to cover up and excuse deliberate brutality.

Emirates to help develop Senegalese start-up carrier Dubai strengthens ties with Senegal Dubai Emirates yesterday said that it has undertaken the responsibility to develop the yet-to-take off Senegal Airlines, a statement by the airline said.

Senegal Airlines, Senegal's new national carrier, will launch with Airbus aircraft, the plane maker announced Wednesday.

Start-up national carrier Senegal Airlines is intending to acquire two Airbus A330s and four A320s for its initial fleet.

The event will be organised by the MinistA re des Mines, de l'Industrie, de la Transformation alimentaire des produits agricoles et des PME, Republic of Senegal in collaboration with the British company AME Trade Limited.

One of President Abdoulaye Wade's several great pan-African projects which the ageing Senegalese leader had wanted to meet the December 2009 deadline has turned out a fiasco, chiefly due to inadequate and timely funding.

Photo taken on Oct. 27, 2009 shows seven-year-old Lamine standing in a village 80 kilometers north of Dakar, capital of Senegal.

Reggie Wilson and Andrya Ouamba may come from different continents and backgrounds but they share an intriguing and sometimes enigmatic worldview, as demonstrated in the premiere of "The Good Dance: Dakar/Brooklyn" at the Walker Art Center Thursday night.

In the fight against maternal mortality, Senegalese health workers say getting women to come in for consistent prenatal care can mean the difference between life and death.

At an opposition protest Friday in Dakar, thousands demanded the resignation of Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, whose admission of having given money to a departing IMF official has sparked indignation and accusations of corruption.

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.