The Senegalese police on August 28, 2008 stormed the premises of 24 Heures Chrono, a privately-owned, Dakar-based daily newspaper, sealed off its...

The Senegalese Police on August 27, 2008, arrested nine men suspected of perpetrating attacks on two privately-owned, Dakar-based newspapers. On...

The offices of 24 Heures Chrono and L’As, two privately-owned, Dakar-based newspapers, were on August 17, 2008 ransacked by a group of men driving...

Up to 2.1 million Senegalese are facing food insecurity linked to high food prices and a poor 2007 harvest, according to an inter-ministerial...

In the Dakar suburb of Thiaroye/Mer earlier this year 22 children died from lead poisoning over a three month period and in June a further 31...

One in four women suffers domestic assault and battery in Senegal yet most suffer in silence because of a deeply entrenched culture of impunity and...

The global food and fuel price crisis presents a “strategic opportunity” to West African states to become more food-secure according to agricultural...

Issues raised need objective answers In a 10-point press statement, FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf responds to recent criticisms of the...

Mali and Ghana are Africa’s second and third largest gold-producing countries, but with most of the income leaving the country they remain entrenched...

Eighteen months after suspending field operations, the International Committee of the Red Cross is once more present on the ground in Fogny, northern...