Dakar — The Government of Senegal and World Health Organization (WHO) today inaugurated a regional health emergency hub in the Senegalese capital Dakar to further bolster the African region’s capacity to respond swiftly and effectively to health crises and save lives. Building on the lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic, WHO in Africa has over […]
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The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery will be celebrated this December 2023. This celebration is taking place in a context characterized by the rise in violent extremism, coups d’état, a deteriorating global health situation, human rights violations, poverty, immigration, and climate change. This situation impacts, significantly, the lives of communities that are victims […]
Senegal has appointed Carlos Alberto Antuna as the new head coach of their Women’s basketball national team. Antuna takes over Senegal job following his resignation as Uganda head coach in October. He led the Gazelles to the quarters of the FIBA Women’s Afrobasket, beating Senegal, DR Congo and Guinea. Since finishing second behind Nigeria’s D’Tigress […]
Senegal is reeling after the death of Pape Ibrahim Gueye, better known as Papito Kara on social networks. Known for his humorous press reviews, Papito Kara died aboard an illegal canoe bound for the Spanish Canary Islands as the country experiences a massive departure of migrants this year. Frozen to death on the road to […]
The Senegalese electoral commission has asked that Ousmane Sonko be placed again on the electoral lists after being removed from them following his conviction on a morals case in July. However, the interior ministry has refused, which prevents Sonko from being a presidential candidate in next year’s elections. In its statement, Senegal’s National Electoral Commission […]
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Senegal: U.S. Relations With Senegal
More information about Senegal is available on the Senegal Page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet. U.S.-SENEGAL RELATIONS The United States established diplomatic relations with Senegal in 1960, following its independence from France and the dissolution of the Mali Federation. Senegal has had […]
Ousmane Sonko has slipped into a coma, his lawyers said on Tuesday. Senegal’s main opposition leader has been under arrest since July, and imprisoned in Dakar’s hospital. His health first started deteriorating when he started a hunger strike in August to protest against what he calls harassment by the state. But Sonko, 49, resumed his […]
More than a hundred objects belonging to the father of Senegal’s independence, Léopold Sédar Senghor, were to be auctioned in France. Senegal, however, managed to have this sale suspended. Senegal says the collection will be acquired by Senegal to “preserve the memory and heritage” of Léopold Sedar Senghor, president from 1960 to 1980. More than […]
Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko says he’s restarting the hunger strike he ended in September, reports RFI. This comes after Sonko, in custody since the end of July on various charges including calling for insurrection, won his appeal to be reinstated on the electoral register. But days after the ruling, Mouhamed Ayib Daffé, permanent secretary […]
A court in Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko’s stronghold of Ziguinchor has ordered his reinstatement to electoral lists. The decision paves the way for Sonko to be a presidential candidate. The judge of the administrative court cancelled Sonko’s removal from the electoral lists on Thursday evening. It also ordered his reinstatement. It is a first […]
Five days after the dissolution of the old government, President Macky Sall has appointed a new one. Prime Minister Amadou Ba, who is also a presidential candidate, said it was a government of continuity. According to reports from Dakar, off the 39 ministers in the new government, only six are joining the team responsible for […]
Popular opposition politician, Ousmane Sonko, arrested, his political party dissolved Several journalists imprisoned Excessive and lethal force used to repress protests The CIVICUS Monitor has added Senegal to its Watchlist of countries experiencing rapid declines in civic freedoms following the imprisonment of critics, journalists and use of deadly force against protesters. In recent months, basic […]
Harare — Prime Minister Amadou Ba was named as the ruling party’s candidate for the 2024 presidential elections by Senegal President Macky Sall, France24 reports. In July, Sall, who had been in power since 2012 and had been re-elected in 2019, said that he would not run for a third term, addressing constitutional concerns. The […]
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Senegal: Lamine Camara’s Phenomenal Year
The year 2023 is not over yet, but one player can already look back on what has so far been an exceptional year. Rising star Lamine Camara has been named in the Senegal squad for the first time after a phenomenal year. The 19-year-old played a starring role as Senegal won the TotalEnergies African Nations […]
Jailed Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, an aspiring presidential candidate and head of state Macky Sall’s fiercest critic, ended a hunger strike Monday. “Ousmane Sonko has just suspended his hunger strike,” the spokesman for his Pastef party, El Hadji Malick Ndiaye, announced on Facebook and Twitter. Le président @SonkoOfficiel vient de SUSPENDRE sa grève de […]
Dakar, SENEGAL — Trust Africa and the African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD) and partners will be hosting the third edition of African Conference on Debt and Development (AfCoDD III) themed “The 4Rs for Africa Rule-Maker: Reimagining, Rethinking, Reorganising, and Remobilising for an African World Order” in Dakar, Senegal on 30th August […]
IN SHORT: A video has gone viral with the claim it shows the fearsome soldiers of Niger. But it was first posted online four months before the July 2023 coup in Niger and shows a military parade celebrating independence day in Senegal. A TikTok video of men in camouflage uniforms, chanting and parading, has been […]
Detained Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has been removed from the country’s electoral roll in a move denounced by his political party as “inhumane persecution”. Sonko, who is in hospital on hunger strike, was transferred to intensive care after his condition weakened overnight, the party added. Senegal‘s media have speculated for days that Sonko may […]