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Senegal's president said Tuesday that he hosted a special dinner at his palace for a departing International Monetary Fund representative — only to have a top aide erroneously send him off with nearly $200,000 in cash as a goodbye gift.
A military official says that six Senegalese soldiers have been killed and three wounded in an attack near the border of Senegal and Guinea-Bissau.
Towering on a hilltop overlooking the Atlantic, the 160-foot-high bronze statue depicting a family rising triumphantly from a volcano is supposed to symbolize Africa's renaissance.
The only piece of furniture that survived the most recent flood in Fatou Dione's house is her bed. It's propped up on cinderblocks and hovers just above the water lapping at the walls of her bedroom.
Belgium asked the World Court on Monday to order Senegal to keep one of Africa's most notorious former dictators under house arrest to prevent him fleeing justice.
Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis is launching a new cherry-flavored malaria drug that it says children will be less likely to spit out.
Belgium has taken Senegal to the International Court of Justice over the African nation's failure to prosecute a former Chad president for crimes against humanity and torture.
China's president toured the site of a new, Chinese-financed national theater in Senegal on Saturday, a day after signing a bilateral agreement promising the West African nation over $90 million in gifts and loans.
Nine men, including a prominent activist, have been convicted of homosexual acts and sentenced to eight years in prison, their lawyer and a gay rights group said Thursday.
A court in Senegal has sentenced a newspaper publisher to three years in prison for printing "false reports" in an article claiming the president and his son had stolen government funds.
To compete in the Francophone World Scrabble Championship, 32-year-old Elisee Poka spent five days in a bus traversing Africa's potholed roads. His competitors from France arrived by plane.
A cottage industry that employed people, including many mothers, to extract poisonous lead from used car batteries has been blamed for the deaths of nearly 20 children in a Senegalese fishing town.
More than 50 school children underwent hospital treatment Friday after developing what educators called mass hysteria, marked by fainting and screaming.
Street vendors protesting an attempt to clear them from the center of Senegal's capital clashed with police Wednesday, throwing rocks at officers who fired tear gas to disperse the crowd.
Sexual abuse prompts Senegalese legal reformsGrowing numbers of girls in Senegal are being raped, with abuse often happening while they are at school.
Hundreds of Thousands Displaced By West African FloodAfter three months of rain West Africa has been devastated by flooding that displaced 600,000. The current season has been unusually rainy and the rain is expected to last through the end of the month.
Boat thieves chronicle agonising deaths in diaryA British couple who stole a yacht and lived a "champagne and cocaine" lifestyle may have starved to death on board.
Some time ago, I coached basketball at a summer camp several years running. One of the other coaches was a guy (there were gals) from Senegal named Amadou Wade (pronounced "wad"). Amadou and I had played in the same division, so we already knew each other a bit.
Futa Marriage Part 1"See how an ancient culture in Northern Senegal approaches courtship and marriage. They are called "Peule" in French and "Pulaar" in English. They are a nomadic tribe found all over Africa. Beautiful images, costumes, men and women. It made me want to live in the village.
Are we witnessing the genesis of a new genocide? Leader in Senegal: "The homosexuals will not escape lynching.""The homosexuals will not escape lynching. They will be fish food," Dakar newspaper L'Observateur quoted a local youth leader as saying.
Jewish Migrations into West Africa Ehad Ever is an Israeli blogger with a deep interest in history and ethnography (he himself is of mixed ancestry (Sephardic Jewish-Spanish, African-American, Senegalese, French...).
Senegal court jails nine gay menNine gay men in Senegal have been sent to jail for "indecent conduct and unnatural acts". Homosexuality is illegal in Senegal but lawyers for the men said the sentence was the harshest ever handed down to gay men in the country.
MSF's Top Ten Humanitarian Crises of 2008The report underscores major difficulties in bringing assistance to people affected by conflict.
'Angry old man' shoots five at Senegalese rap concert: reportsA Senegalese man in his 70s opened fire on a rap group, injuring four of them, during a live show because he thought they were making fun of him in their song titled "Angry Old Man," reports said.
U.S. Helps African States Fend Off IslamistsThousands of miles from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, another side of America's fight against terrorism is unfolding in this remote corner of West Africa.
World Vision ReportThe thing is -- poverty in Africa hits at a much deeper, less obvious and widespread level. Take my friend Ndiéme, who works at the hairdresser's. She makes 30,000 CFA francs a month, the equivalent of just over $60 dollars.
Petty Bribery increasing in RP: Filipinos expect corruption to grow in next three yearsThe Philippines' image has taken yet another hit as a survey by corruption watchdog Transparency International showed the country in the top ten list of countries most affected by petty bribery.
Arrests sought over Senegal ferry A French judge has issued international arrest warrants for nine Senegalese officials over the 2002 sinking of a government-owned ferry. One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three people died when the Joola sank in high seas on 26 September 2002.
African immigrants riot in Spain "African immigrants have rioted in Spain after a Senegalese man was stabbed to death in the street of a southern town. Police said the rampage began in the early hours of Sunday, and led to houses and cars being set on fire. "
George Monbiot: It's Pretty Clear That Europe Is Using 'Trade' Deals to Steal Food from Poor CountriesIn his book Late Victorian Holocausts, Mike Davis tells the story of the famines that sucked the guts out of India in the 1870s. The hunger began when a drought, caused by El Nino, killed the crops on the Deccan plateau.
Manufactured FamineGeorge Monbiot highlights the plunder of Senegal's fishing industry by the EU: A new wave of food colonialism is snatching food from the mouths of the poor.
Child beggar's father fights abusive teacher In hundreds of Quranic schools in the mostly Muslim West African country, children are made to beg in the streets and are beaten if they don't bring back enough money.
Chad sentences former president to deathA Chadian court on Friday sentenced a former president and 11 rebels to death for crimes against the state, an official said.
Cerebral Maybe, But Scrabble's a Sport in SenegalTo most casual observers of Scrabble, the game is a pastime. But in Senegal, typically better known for the Dakar Rally, it is a sport. And it's taken very seriously – especially this week, as the country plays host to the 37th Francophone Scrabble World Championships.
Dakar rallies Scrabble contendersSenegal may conjure up images of the singer Youssou N'Dour, the Dakar rally or perhaps the football team's successful 2002 World Cup display.
Africa's Great Green WallThe 25-member African organisation CEN-SAD (Community of Sahel-Saharan States) has initiated a project to build a Great Green Wall across the continent from Mauritania in West Africa to Djibouti in the East.
New irrigation project a boon for Senegalese farmersThe villagers in Dap Dior are using drip irrigation, a system of pipes that drip water directly to the roots. But in this adapted version, created especially for developing countries, each plot of 500 square meters has a blue barrel on a meter-high pedestal.
Senegal: Tourism in Eastern SenegalTambacounda is the largest region in Eastern Senegal. It lies across major transit hubs linking Senegal to four of their neighboring countries; The Gambia, Guinea-Conakry, Mali and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.
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