US embassy adviced Dakar to take special care in areas popular with Westerners as it prepares to host several international events.
20 Oct 2017 6:27 PM
The narrator of the video, one of the hostages, says she hopes that French President Emmanuel Macron will come to her rescue.
03 Jul 2017 1:46 PM
Thirty soldiers from Niger and two from Nigeria were killed in a Boko Haram attack by “hundreds of assaila-nts” on late Friday on the southeastern town of Bosso close to the border with Nigeria, the N
06 Jun 2016 12:43 AM
Senegalese software programmer Ousseynou Khadim Beye poses with tablet computer displaying his Cross Dakar City application.(Photo: AFP)
12 May 2016 6:52 AM
Ansar Dine named the suicide bomber who blew himself up with a truck bomb as Muhammad Abdullah bin Hudhayfa al Hosni from Mauritania.
13 Feb 2016 3:43 PM
The video is the latest indication of deteriorating security in Mali's north just months after a peace accord was signed.
27 Jan 2016 10:15 AM
Tracking mobile phone calls and texts to pinpoint and map out poverty in developing countries could provide aid agencies and governments with better data to help those most in need, researchers said
19 Nov 2015 6:24 AM