Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, the presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Trust in the 2019 election, on Wednesday, defected to the ruling All…
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Ahead of the July 24 local government election in Ogun State, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has conducted primary elections…
Total and Worldline Partner with African Fintech InTouch to Support Deployment of Guichet Unique, an Innovative Digital Solution for Retail…
Senegal is considering banning the full-body veil worn by some females in the Muslim-majority country. The proposal by the government…
Deep in the remote countryside of Senegal, a unique arts centre is aiming to bring inspiration to local villagers. It…
By Al Jazeera Niokolo Koba Park in Senegal is an important world heritage site, which started out as a hunting…
The Dakar Rally is one of the most famous motor races in the world. Since its inception in 1978, the…
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…
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’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…