Dakar News

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...

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...

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 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,...

Red Cross officials say an outbreak of dengue fever in Cape Verde is the worst ever in West Africa. Hospitals in Cape Verde are running out of room for their patients this week, says the Red Cross' West and Central...

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....