Browsing: Senegal

Senegalese media outlets widely responded on Tuesday to a call for a news blackout in protest against economic measures implemented by the new government, which they…

Senegal’s new leadership has appointed several new judges to replace the previous judges who have been described as loyal to the previous administration of Former president…

Senegal has commenced voluntary COVID-19 screening tests and reintroduced the wearing of masks at Dakar’s international airport for Hajj pilgrim returnees, fearing the virus was linked…

Senegalese customs said has intercepted three shipments of cocaine with a total estimated value of more than $50 million over the last five days. In a…

Senegal has become an oil-producing country after Australian group, Woodside Energy announced that production had begun in the West African country’s first offshore project, the Sangomar…

President Bola Tinubu on Thursday received in audience his Senegalese counterpart, Diomaye Faye, at the State House, Abuja. The president, alongside top government officials received the…

A Boeing 737 carrying 85 people went off a runway at Dakar International Airport, Senegal’s capital, on Thursday, injuring 10 persons, according to the transport minister.…

The movement to wean African countries off their colonisers’ legacies has gained traction over the years. Most colonised African countries attained independence at the end of the 1950s…

The newly elected President of Senegal Bassirou Diomaye Faye named his mentor and opposition arrowhead Ousmane Sonko as prime minister, a few hours after being sworn…

In the last minutes of the election campaign, Senegal’s president-elect, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, took the platform while clutching the hands of both his wives, Marie and…