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Members of the team included Aliou Ba and Oumar Niang, residents of Summit County, whose families provided their homes and guest houses in the communities of Hoorefonde and Doumga Ouro Alpha, 675 kilometers up-country from Dakar, the capital. Other team...

Dakar," says Youssou N'Dour, glancing out the darkened window of an S.U.V. at the nocturnal crowds streaming into his nightclub, Thiossane, as a warm West African breeze rustles the palms and stirs up the dirt in the unpaved parking lot....

Two months after school resumed in Senegal scores of students still have not returned to their regular classrooms, which remain under up to a half-metre of floodwater...Youssouf Ndao’s eight-year-old son missed 25 days of school before his classroom re-opened. “My...

Former South African Broadcasting Corporation radio executive producer and journalist Chris Louw has been found dead on his farm near Hartbeespoort Dam in the North West, the broadcaster reported on Tuesday...The circumstances around his death were not immediately clear.

The flag of Senegal. An East 44th Street landlord has dropped  a strongly worded lawsuit against the government of Senegal in which he claimed breach of contract and warned that his experience "should serve as a cautionary tale for anyone...

It would take US$8.8 billion annually over several years to halve the number of malnourished children worldwide, currently at some 178 million, says Save the Children in a new eight-point action plan . In its report, Hungry for change, Save...

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...

The 13 objects in this outstanding solo show cohere in so many ways that the installation itself becomes a phantom 14th piece, the subliminal guest at an enigmatic reunion of themes and spirits. At mid-career, Alison Saar has achieved a...

As she enters the room, she is fiercely working a clingy hot-pink dress and wearing a smile so bright, it's as if she has swallowed the sun. The daughter of an R&B singer, Alice Tan Ridley, and a Senegalese cabdriver...