New project set to rename public spaces bearing names of colonial officers as Dakar distances itself from France.

Rwanda-backed rebels have captured eastern Congo’s strategic city of Goma, the hub of a region containing trillions of ...

Prayers and melodic chants reverberated across Dakar’s Yoff neighborhood as thousands ... The Layene brotherhood, while smaller than Senegal’s other Sufi orders such as the Mouride or Tijan ...

Closest airports to Dakar, Senegal are listed below. These are major airports close to the city of Dakar and other airports closest to Dakar-Yoff-Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport. Following ...

What Dakar Fashion Week has done is revitalize Senegal. It’s also made the city attractive to those who are visiting the country for the Dakar Biennale. Its success serves and growth serves as ...

By Ruth Maclean and Elian Peltier Reporting from Dakar, Senegal. Rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo have surrounded the eastern city of Goma, in one of the sharpest escalations in years of ...

Rwanda-backed rebels say they captured eastern Congo’s strategic city of Goma, the hub of a region containing trillions of dollars in mineral wealth that remains largely untapped. Analysts say the ...

Prayers and melodic chants reverberated across Dakar’s Yoff neighborhood as thousands of Sufi Muslim followers from the Layene brotherhood commemorated the first public appearance of their founder ...