Senegal
23 Sep
Senegal's navy has recovered at least 30 bodies from a boat discovered adrift around 70 kilometres (43 miles) off the coast of the capital Dakar, the army said Monday. Investigations are under way to establish where the vessel came from and to confirm the death toll, the army said in a statement posted on social…
9 Sep
At least 16 people were killed and 22 injured when a bus and a lorry collided in central Senegal early Monday morning, the fire brigade told AFP. The accident occurred around 6 am local time (0600 GMT) near the village of Ndangalma, a fire brigade official said, requesting anonymity. Road accidents are frequent in Senegal,…
4 Sep
Senegal's new president is set to dissolve the opposition-dominated parliament in the coming days and launch a vast anti-corruption campaign that could target dozens, Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko said Wednesday. READ ALSO:Senegal court upholds journalist life sentence over 2018 massacre Sonko was appointed as head of the government in April by his…
29 Aug
A Senegalese appeals court on Thursday upheld a life sentence handed to a journalist over a 2018 massacre in the southern Casamance region but acquitted another man. Fourteen loggers were rounded up and killed in January 2018 by armed individuals in the Bayotte forest in Casamance. The region is separated from the rest of Senegal…
27 Aug
Senegal said Tuesday that it was temporarily suspending mining activities along the bank of a river that forms part of its southeastern
17 Aug
Senegal's first satellite has been successfully launched into orbit, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye said, adding the move marked a major step towards the West African country's "technological sovereignty". The GAINDESAT-1A satellite was launched at 18:56 GMT Friday from the Vandenberg base in California, Faye wrote in a post on X late Friday. "The result of…
14 Aug
Senegalese news organisations widely heeded a call Tuesday for a news blackout to protest against economic measures by the new government which they say threaten the industry. Most newspapers did not publish and two popular private radio stations played music instead of broadcasting the news. Private television stations such as TFM, ITV and 7 TV…
13 Aug
Senegalese brothers Moustapha Ndour, a Muslim, and Jean-Pierre, who is Christian, cheerfully tease each other for their respective faiths, days after remarks by the prime minister angered the Catholic Church. "He says that I've betrayed him," the 67-year-old Islam convert said, smiling, side-by-side with his younger sibling outside their home on the island of Fadiouth,…
11 Jun
Production has started at Senegal's first offshore oil project, Australian operator Woodside Energy said on Tuesday, adding the West African country to the club of crude-producing nations. "This is a historic day for Senegal and for Woodside," said the company's chief executive, Meg O'Neill, calling the extraction of oil from the Sangomar field "a key…
28 May
Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Tuesday launched a national consultation to reform and modernise the justice system, a priority for the new leader who left prison just 10 days before his election victory. Faye, his prime minister Ousmane Sonko, and several of their party members were imprisoned during the presidency of former leader Macky…
21 May
About 50 parliamentarians from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will, tomorrow, open their second extraordinary session in Kano with issues bordering on regional and economic integration of member states. Addressing journalists shortly at the end of its Bureau’s meeting, yesterday, First Deputy Speaker of the ECOWAS parliament, Senator Barau Jibril, said the…
17 May
Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko warned on Thursday that insistence on LGBTQ rights in diplomatic relations and from multinational organisations could lead to "anti-Western sentiment."