Senegal's Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko on Monday said he would remain head of the government rather than preside over the ...

The mass slaying of West African soldiers by colonial forces at the end of World War II in Senegal remains shrouded in ...

On Dec. 1, 1944, likely hundreds of West African riflemen who fought for France during World War II were killed by the French ...

Biram Senghor regularly goes to pay his respects at a military cemetery in Thiaroye, a fishing village near Senegal’s capital ...

Senegal on Sunday commemorated the 80th anniversary of a massacre of African soldiers who fought for France during World War ...

France has for the first time acknowledged that its soldiers carried out a "massacre" in Senegal in which dozens – perhaps ...

Senegal commemorates the 80th anniversary of the Thiaroye massacre on Sunday, honouring the African riflemen killed by French ...

Ibrahima Sy, Senegalese minister of health and social action, launched a national mass vaccination campaign against measles and rubella on Monday, targeting all children between the ages of nine ...

Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye told AFP Thursday that France should close its military bases in the West African state as it prepared to mark the 80th anniversary of a notorious colonial ...

South African company Integrated Pump Technology has secured an order for its first Godwin HL150 pump to a mine in Senegal, ...

Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye told AFP Thursday that France should close its military bases in the West African state as it prepared to mark the 80th anniversary of a notorious ...

Two decades later, in 1973, he wrote to Senegal's then president Leopold Sedar Senghor to ask for support -- a letter left unanswered because it was "too sensitive", his chief of staff later said.