Senegal News
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The Senegalese Football Federation (FSF) and the government's sports ministry have resolved a damaging dispute that threatened the country's preparations for next month's Africa Cup of Nations. The FSF had broken off all contact with the ministry in a row over national team coach Amara Traore's new contract. As a result the publication of Senegal's 22-player squad for the January
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Senegal's 85-year-old president Abdoulaye Wade was nominated by his party on Friday to run for a third term in February's presidential elections, the day after clashes killed one person. He accepted his nomination at a special meeting of delegates of his ruling Senegalese Democratic Party in Dakar. Wade, first elected president in 2000, wants to run again despite strong domestic
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The Senegalese army says separatist rebels attacked its Diégoune barracks in the southern province of Casamance on Tuesday. A large number of Casamance Democratic Forces Movement fighters carried out the attack at 6:45 in the morning, the army said. Local people say casualties were compounded by a vehicle being forced off the road. Eye-witnesses' assessments of the number of dead
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Philip Morris International's decision to slash the price of its best-selling Marlboro brand by 40 percent in Senegal has left health officials and activists fuming and sparked calls to toughen tobacco laws. PMI, when contacted by AFP, refused to explain the shock decision to cut the prices of Marlboro -- the world's top-selling cigarette sold in some 180 countries --
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Dakar — A leading Senegalese journalist has accepted nomination to head an opposition coalition for the presidential race in February next year. Mr Abdou Latif Coulibaly on Sunday accepted the nomination by 'Benno Alliance 2012', a splinter opposition coalition that comprises about eight political parties. The investigative journalist and managing editor of the weekly La Gazette was among three other
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A march against racism was held by thousands in Florence on Saturday following the death of two Senegalese street vendors by a far-right gunman earlier in the week. "We want today to be the dawn of a new hope so that our brothers did not die in vain," said Pape Diaw, a spokesman for the Senegalese community. "We really have
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Florence was in mourning Wednesday after an Italian far-right author shot dead two Senegalese men and wounded three others before killing himself in a daylight shooting spree that prompted outpourings of grief. Witnesses said they saw the gunman calmly getting out of a car at a street market on Piazza Dalmazia, north of the city centre, and firing three shots
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Several soldiers were killed on Tuesday in an attack in the restive Casamance region of southern Senegal blamed on separatist rebels, military and political sources told AFP. "We have lost some soldiers and some have been reported missing," a military source said after a local official reported an attack in the village of Kabeumeu near the border with Gambia. An
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Senegal's main opposition coalition has failed to agree on a single candidate to field against incumbent Abdoulaye Wade in next year's presidential election, political sources said on Friday. The 33-party Benno Siggil Senegaal (United to Boost Senegal) coalition had set up a committee months ago to decide on a single candidate to unseat the 85-year-old Wade in polls slated for
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Dakar - Those living in Senegal's poor, cramped suburbs who have no running water at home can pay up to four times more for water than rich households, a United Nations water and sanitation expert said on Monday. UN special envoy Catarina de Albuquerque, speaking to journalists after a seven-day mission in Senegal, urged the west African nation to boost
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Dakar - Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade late on Wednesday offered two key rivals cabinet jobs in exchange for working with him in the run up to elections in February, but both men's parties immediately rejected the offer. The octogenarian president is seeking re-election despite rivals saying he should be barred from taking part, and tensions are escalating steadily in a
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Senegal re-opened its airspace to Guinea on Wednesday a day after a spat over payments led the country to block all flights coming from or going to Guinea, Senegal Airlines said. "Senegal Airlines has the pleasure of announcing the resumption of commercial flights to Conakry," read a statement from the airline. On Tuesday Dakar closed off its airspace to planes
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Dakar - Senegal on Tuesday banned all planes travelling to or from Guinea (Conakry) from using its airspace following a row over a Senegalese plane grounded in the neighbouring country. The row is the latest in a series of spats between the West African neighbours after Guinean President Alpha Conde accused Senegal of being complicit in a failed attempt to
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Former Bolton, Liverpool and Rangers striker El Hadji Diouf on Monday signed a three month contract with English Championship side Doncaster. The 30-year-old Senegal international has been without a club since he was released by Blackburn at the end of last season. A two-time African Footballer of the Year, Diouf was a £10 million arrival at Anfield in 2002 after
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A biofuels project in northern Senegal has triggered violent clashes between villagers, leaving one person dead and two seriously wounded. A police source says residents of Fanayé village "fought with sticks and machetes" in a disagreement over the project. Fanayé is in the Senegal River valley, near the Mauritanian border. According to reports, some villagers were angry that thousands of
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A court in Senegal jailed an opposition activist Thursday for two years after convicting him of having issued a death threat and for contempt of court. Malick Noel Seck was convicted over an open letter in which he denounced the silence of judges over President Abdoulaye Wade's decision to run for a controversial third presidential term in 2012. -
Air traffic between Senegal and Mauritania has resumed after a three-month pause, ending a row over onward flights, Senegalese sources said. A Senegal Airlines flight took off from Dakar for Nouakchott in mid-afternoon Thursday, an airport official said. There was no immediate information on possible flights in the opposite direction by Mauritania Airlines. The bilateral row, which prevented all flights
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Senegalese Sports minister Fautin Diatta has been fired by the Nation’s President Abdoulaye Wade. The sacking comes amidst mounting pressure and criticisms over the management of football activities by the authorities. Former sports minister, Abdoulaye Makhtar Diop, took over as interim, making him the eighth sports minister of the West African nation since 2000. Senegal are one of the favourites
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The families of more than 1,800 people who died when a Senegalese ferry sank nine years ago gathered for anniversary ceremonies Monday with renewed hopes of a trial in France over one of history's worst maritime disasters.
The overloaded ferry Joola capsized on the night of September 26, 2002, off the coast of Gambia as it
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Several hundred Senegalese opposition supporters demonstrated Friday against 85-year-old President Abdoulaye Wade's bid for a third term in next year's elections.
"It's time to go, granddad," chanted the demonstrators, gathered on one of the capital Dakar's main squares.
The latest demonstration comes three months after riots, when parliament was debating a bill proposing
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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal's ruling party said Thursday that it is canceling all political demonstrations, an announcement that comes a day before the nation's opposition planned to hold a rally to call for regime change.
In a fax sent to reporters on Thursday, the ruling Senegalese Democratic Party, or PDS, said that all rallies of
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The traditional Senegalese delicacy leads the way in the decline of West African fish population while local government gives fisheries no respite.
The Senegalese Maritime Economy Ministry has failed to save its country's diminishing fish stocks.
This week, it slashed the biological recovery period of commercial fisheries because of pressure from national industrial
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Relatives of more than 1,800 people who died when a Senegalese ferry sank in 2002 said Tuesday they wanted a memorial museum erected to honour the victims of one of history's worst maritime disasters.
A committee set up by the families made the request days before the ninth anniversary of the disaster in which the Joola
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Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade intends to file a lawsuit for defamation against an Africa adviser at the French presidency who named him in a dirty cash scandal, an aide said Tuesday.
The lawsuit will be filed "this week in Paris and Dakar", said a close aide to Wade, whose son Karim was also implicated by Franco-Lebanese
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Dakar - Senegal and Congo-Brazzaville on Tuesday denied allegations made by an influential French political adviser that they paid large sums of money in cash to the French presidency.
Robert Bourgi, a long-time unofficial point man between France's Elysee palace and the regimes in former African colonies, has rocked French politics with a raft of allegations
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