Senegal News

Nairobi - As world attention remains riveted on the US political campaigns and their implications for the Obama presidency, many may forget that in Africa there will be major tests for democracy this year.

It means "something small" in Swahili, and it refers to the bribes Kenyans pay minor bureaucrats, such as policemen and utility company employees, to make life easier.

Demonstrators hurled stones at the convoy carrying Senegal's aging president to the regional capital of Thies, where he held a campaign rally Wednesday, according to witnesses and a private radio station.

The winners of the 55th annual World Press Photo competition are announced in Amsterdam, naming Samuel Aranda from Spain, of Corbis Images, as the overall winner for a picture of a Yemeni woman tending to an injured relative after anti-government protests in Sana'a. This image of the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan in April, 2011 by Yasuyoshi ... (more)

In winding down the Afghan war, the United States has inadvertently shifted power to neighboring countries like Uzbekistan, which it is now paying for use of its roads as transit routes to re-supply the 89,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

BERLIN For a film about a day of atonement and reckoning in anticipation of impending death, Alain Gomis ' Today is laced with surprising moments of lightness amid the melancholy tenderness.

Dakar is the capital of Africa's westernmost nation, Senegal. For generations, life in the sea has sustained life on land there.

Today, the bid for re-election by the 85 year old increasingly looks as if it could threaten Senegal's stability.

In this photo provided on Friday Feb. 10, 2012 by World Press Photo, the 2nd prize Arts and Entertainment Singles category of the 2012 World Press Photo contest by Vincent Boisot, France, Riva Press for Le Figaro Magazine, shows a model posing in front of tailor stalls in the center of Dakar, Senegal, July 9, 2011.

Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda won the 2011 World Press Photo of the Year award on Friday for an image of a veiled woman holding a wounded relative in her arms after a demonstration in Yemen.

DAKAR, 10 February 2012 - While it is clear that Senegal was one of the eight Sahelian countries to be hit by poor rains in 2011, unlike most of its neighbours, the government has not yet declared that parts of certain regions are suffering drought conditions.

Senegal leader Abdoulaye Wade, facing a storm of criticism over his third term presidential bid, has rallied voters in the city of Thies after days of opposition protests.

In Idrissa Diop's "Bamba," an infectious chorus hits over joyous horns and a grinding rhythm that seems light while never letting up.

Everything free and easy Do as ya damn well pleasey Why don'tcha make yer way there Go there, stay there? They have a large staff of 'climate change advisers'. However, they manage to save a bit of money by employing mainly illegal immigrants as traffic wardens .

Senegal leader Abdoulaye Wade, facing a storm of criticism over his third term presidential bid, has rallied voters in the city of Thies after days of opposition protests.

"The presidential elections whose first round is fixed for Sunday, February 26, will be decisive for the future of the country", say the Bishops of Senegal in the message dedicated to the presidential elections.

People opposed to Mr. Wade remaining in office gathered in Dakar on Jan. 31 to protest the court ruling allowing the nation's elderly leader to run for a third term.

An opposition official in Senegal says police fired tear gas in a regional capital where the country's president was attempting to hold a campaign rally.

An opposition official in Senegal says police fired tear gas in a regional capital where the country's president was attempting to hold a campaign rally.Alioune Tine, the coordinator of the M23 coalition, said by telephone that anti-government demonstrators had tried to take to the streets in Thies on Wednesday to protest against President ... (more)

An opposition official in Senegal says police fired tear gas in a regional capital where the country's president was attempting to hold a campaign rally.