Senegal News

In Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania, he will stress support for democracies and economic progress, and speak about the importance of human rights.

DAKAR, Senegal A new report says piracy affected more ships and sailors off West Africa than off Somalia's coast last year.

As the 2015 target date for achieving the Millennium Development Goals approaches, there are a growing number of preparations and debates on what a post-2015 agenda and framework will look like.

There has never been anything like what we are planning to stage in Lagos this Sunday , h Inyang Effiong, Team Principal CycleShop told Sports Vanguard team about the Cyclefest Race holding today in Lagos.

Cash-strapped Zimbabwe may have to field two goalkeepers in their 2014 World Cup soccer qualifier against Guinea in Conakry on Sunday.

A former Royal Navy captain who set sail for west Africa from Cornwall in a menacing gunboat is a nave but harmless "maverick" not a pirate hunter, a friend and business partner has claimed.

The Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of Congo is launching an emergency mass vaccination campaign against yellow fever from 20 June 2013, following laboratory confirmation of six cases in the country on 6 June 2013.

As part of a Google-funded pilot scheme, the owner of an internet cafe in Dakar has swapped all his PCs for tablets computers.

Four have-a-go-hero Brits sailing a converted warship to Africa on what they describe as an 'anti-piracy' mission have been arrested off Senegal.

Professional basketball player Luc Mbah a Moute of Cameroon, left, and retired basketball player Dikembe Mutombo of the Democratic Republic of the Congo , right, participate in an NBA Basketball Without Borders event in Dakar, Senegal.

By Is'haq Modibbo Kawu IT was one of those stories that might have been missed in a newspaper.

A WOMAN drug smuggler was caught with cocaine worth more than 1 million on the streets after she went through the "Nothing to Declare" channel at Edinburgh Airport.

The Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners could pass a resolution urging President Barack Obama's administration to facilitate and establish an aviation gateway between Miami and the Republic of Senegal.

The Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners could pass a resolution urging President Barack Obama 's administration to facilitate and establish an aviation gateway between Miami and the Republic of Senegal.

The Treasury Department today designated four Lebanese men who operate for Hezbollah in four separate West African nations.

This re-creation of Frankfurt's Fairy Tale Fountain was built at Mansudae Art Studio in North Korea.

Sinking feeling: Ruins of houses on the beach in Doun Baba Dieye, northern Senegal.

I was born in South Korea and moved to Senegal three years ago. I just graduated from the International School of Dakar and am attending Purdue University... Humans have long been yearning for an immortal life and everlasting youth-to continue living freely without having to confront death.

Clotilde M. Tavares, 77, of Colorado Springs, CO, formerly of New Bedford, MA by way of Dakar, Senegal, died at her home on Tuesday, June 4, 2013.

DAKAR/PIKINE, 7 June 2013 - Senegalese authorities and aid organizations say they have begun preparing for what will likely be another round of heavy flooding during this year's upcoming rainy season, but observers and local residents say not enough has been done to reduce the risk of annual floods ruining their homes.