Dakar Politics News

The attack occurred in the Casamance region, which has a long history of separatist violence. The soldiers were killed by a rocket-propelled grenade after their vehicle became stuck in mud near the border with Guinea-Bissau, the army says. There has...

August, a day after the area flooded. “We are trapped by water.” Mohamed Diaby, 19, of Coronthie said: “We put my brother’s nine-month-old twins in a suitcase to bring them to a safer area. That was something you saw all...

Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade has called it "African Renaissance" but his critics say it reveals more about the continent's poor governance that its renaissance. When it is finished the statue will be taller than the Eiffel Tower in Paris and...

A Nigerian court will this week begin the trial of a 23 year-old Internet fraudster, Okoro Osagie Victor, who swindled an estimated $96,607 (Sh7.1 million) mostly from young American and German ladies, reports said. The suspect was picked up by...

Look Students decorated school's courtyard with paintings illustrating their rights Share This At the 20th anniversary celebration of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in Dakar Friday, it was the children who took center stage.

Former Chadian president Hissene Habre wants West Africa's regional court to prevent Senegal from trying him for crimes against humanity . The regional court says Habre's victims may not take part in that case. Former Chadian President Hissene Habre has...

Dakar will convene a group of international experts to discuss improved budget programming to accomplish the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the sub-region. West and Central African countries on how to plan and budget for the MDGs: Benin, Senegal, Burkina...