Senegal’s exiled ex-president Abdoulaye Wade returns home
Senegal's former president Abdoulaye Wade returned home on Friday after two years abroad following his election defeat, his party told AFP, with his son facing jail for corruption. Wade's airplane touched down in Dakar after being grounded in Morocco…
African tycoon draws Nigeria, France into ‘cement war’ in Senegal
Its shimmering azure chimney stacks towering into the sky, the latest cement works launched by Africa's richest man lies idle in a Senegalese meadow -- stopped in its tracks by legal action and cut-throat competition in a rapidly growing industry. Nigerian…
Senegal seizes Russian ship fishing ‘illegally’
Senegal's navy has boarded a Russian ship that was allegedly illegally fishing in its waters and is towing it toward Dakar, the military said on Saturday. The ship was boarded after it was observed illegally fishing in Senegalese waters near the border…
Investment in agriculture necessary to feed the two billion who will go hungry by...
DAKAR, Sénégal, November 20, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- “Nearly 240 million Africans are malnourished and although only one-third of those who face...
