That could soon change, as Senegal’s first professional surfers, Ibra Samb and Charif Fall, are spearheading a new initiative to bring surfboards into the country and help the next generation ride the ...

France has for the first time acknowledged that its soldiers carried out a "massacre" in Senegal in which dozens – perhaps hundreds – of West African troops were killed almost exactly 80 years ...

Franco-African relations have long been framed from the French perspective. However, as new nationalist sentiments sweep ...

Senegal's top court has rejected a move by lawmakers to revise an amnesty law that would have paved the way for possible prosecutions over the deaths of dozens of protesters during anti-government ...

Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye said Friday he had “done everything possible” to bring junta-led Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger back into west Africa’s ECOWAS regional group, to no avail.

Mr Faye, who is 45 and new to political office, came to power on a wave of anti-Western and anti-elite sentiment. He promised ...

French troops are set to completely withdraw from Senegal by the end of 2025, following an announcement by President Diomaye Faye. But the Senegalese workers employed on France’s military bases ...

Royal Holloway provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. France has handed over control to the Senegalese government of two military bases in Senegal’s capital, Dakar that it has used ...

After a childhood spent in France, Senegal, Madagascar and Vietnam, Suzanne Borel earned a degree in philosophy and was studying Chinese at the School of Oriental Languages when her mother sent her a ...

Senegal celebrates its Independence Day on April ... hours after President Tinubu departed Nigeria on a working visit to France.

A top boss at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says his organisation hopes to finalise a new aid programme for Senegal as soon as possible after suspending its $1.8 billion credit line in ...