The Latest Breaking News from Senegal

In Senegal’s gold-rich Kedougou region, women and children face serious health risks from mercury exposure used in gold processing

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Millions of people around the world live with rare diseases, most of them caused by a misstep in their genes

The Herds project from the team behind Little Amal will travel 20,000km taking its message on environmental crisis across the world

NGOs claim Spanish authorities are turning a blind eye to their fleets' activities in Senegal and Guinea Bissau.

The Fulani people are Africa’s largest pastoralist group. There are between 25 million and 40  million Fulani people across 17 African countries, from the Atlantic shores of Senegal and Mauritania to Sudan.

For many the perilous journey to Spain seems the only future. Can the country’s new government create enough jobs and prospects to make them stay?

For Franco-Senegalese choreographer Germaine Acogny, dance is a powerful medium that can bring people together and tell compelling stories. A group of young dancers from the African diaspora is applying her techniques in an innovative project created through workshops in Paris and Dakar.

A bedtime story written by a journalist for his daughter during lockdown has grown into a reforestation movement reaching 30,000 children in West Africa.

Senegal’s parliament has approved revisions to a law passed under the former president that granted amnesty for offences committed during deadly opposition protests in the West African country

Rusting pipes in a barren field and unpaid workers are what remain after a U.S. company promised to turn a huge piece of land in Senegal — about twice the size of Paris — into an agricultural project and create thousands of jobs