Dakar News

Strengthening its position as a global center in the fight against malaria , the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is one of two Baltimore institutions tapped for a five-year, $100 million project to help combat the mosquito-borne disease....

The 42-year-old was honoured for her novel Trois Femmes Puissantes (Three Powerful Women), a saga set in both Africa and Europe. Frenchwoman NDiaye, whose father is Senegalese and mother French, said: "This prize is an unexpected reward for 25 years...

Health organizations have joined forces to launch the first World Pneumonia Day , urging governments, donors and civil society to act to prevent and treat the world’s leading child killer...World Health Organization (WHO) in a Global Action Plan for the...

Belgian cycling champion Frank Vandenbroucke, shown in 2004, was troubled after doping allegations derailed his career. (Yves Boucau/AFP/Getty Images) Frank Vandenbroucke, a former winner of the Liege-Bastogne-Liege and Paris-Nice cycling races before his career was marred by a doping scandal,...

Senegal’s president has described as ‘nonsense’ any suggestion that his gift to a departing IMF official early in September was bribery. The president said this in a press conference earlier on Tuesday, which was followed by an official statement from...

Officials had earlier denied money had changed hands but then said Alex Segura was given almost $200,000 (£122,000) at the end of his three-year posting...The IMF said Mr Segura had returned the money as soon as he could. The fund...

Europa League hopefuls Anderlecht have been dealt a cruel injury blow in the aftermath of their 1-1 Jupiler League draw against AA Gent on Sunday evening. Holding midfielder Cheikhou Kouyate has sustained a broken nose during the match and faces...

Senegal's pride and joy, or a towering waste of money? Women walk past rubbish heaps and unfinished homes in a neighborhood at the base of the nearly-completed 50-meter-high (328-foot-high) bronze statue dubbed the Monument of the African Renaissance in Dakar,...