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

DAKAR, Senegal — Rwanda-backed rebels have captured eastern Congo’s strategic city of Goma, the hub of a region containing trillions of dollars in mineral wealth that remains largely untapped. It ...

Once an emblematic landmark of traditional west African architecture, Dakar's fondly remembered Sandaga market can now only ...

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 ...

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 ...

DAKAR, Senegal — Bodies are lying on the streets ... It remained unclear how much of Goma is controlled by the rebels, who marched into eastern Congo’s strategic city early Monday to both fear and ...

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 ...

followers from the Layene brotherhood commemorate the first public appearance of their founder Seydina Limamou Laye in 1884 at Yoff's beachside mosque in Dakar, Senegal, Friday, Jan. 31 ...