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SENEGAL ECONOMY HOPES FOR TAKEOFF AS NEW AIRPORT OPENS
The airport will be a key test of Senegal's economic fortunes as the president seeks re-election in 2019... READ MORE›
WEST AFRICA POPULATION PLANNERS BATTLE TO WOO MUSLIM HEARTS
On Niger's religious TV stations, preachers promise hellfire for anyone practicing family planning... READ MORE›
MILITANTS KILL EGYPTIAN U.N. PEACEKEEPER IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
Peacekeeper and wounded three others in an attack in southern Central African Republic on Sunday, the United Nations said in a statement... READ MORE›
AFRICAN PRESIDENTS FORCED OUT OF POWER [1]
The narrative is changing across the continent except for much of the Central Africa region where leaders are holding on tight after decades... READ MORE›
ART WORLD DESCENDS ON SENEGAL FOR THE DAK'ART BIENNALE
We have come to support the event because it is a major pan-African event... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Dakar
CLINICS FOR WORLDS VULNERABLE BRACE FOR TRUMPS ANTI-ABORTION CUTS
Her group, which is part of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, does not use American funding for abortion services, she said, only for family planning... READ MORE›
HOSTAGES SEIZED IN ATTACK ON RADISSON HOTEL IN MALI
In August United Nations workers were killed in an assault on a hotel in central Mali... READ MORE›
GAMBIA'S PRESIDENT JAMMEH REFUSES TO LEAVE OFFICE AS DEADLINE PASSES
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh is refusing to step down despite the threat of military intervention by neighbouring states... READ MORE›
BOKO HARAM RANKED AHEAD OF ISIS AS DEADLIEST GROUP
The report estimated that 117 billion was spent worldwide to fight terrorism... READ MORE›
ADAMA BARROW PLEDGES TRUTH COMMISSION OVER YAHYA JAMMEH
Writing on Twitter on Saturday from Senegal, Barrow said As Yahya Jammeh officially stepped down from office... READ MORE›
GAMBIAS PRESIDENT, IN POWER 22 YEARS, LOSES ELECTION
In a concession speech broadcast on state television on Friday night, Mr. Jammeh, one of Africa's most eccentric leaders, calmly accepted his loss... READ MORE›
THE BRITISH AIRLINER THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
All my time on the Comet 1, the aircraft was still under development, says Duffey... READ MORE›
GAMBIA: JAMMEH GIVEN MIDDAY DEADLINE TO GO AS TROOPS CLOSE IN
West African leaders tell former president to leave or be ousted as regional troops enter country to support successor... READ MORE›
A PLANE OF RICHES TRAILS GAMBIAS DEPARTING LEADER
DAKAR, Senegal -- On his last night in the country, Yahya Jammeh, Gambia's former president, rolled toward his flight into exile in his trademark Rolls-Royce... READ MORE›
SOUTH AFRICAN MERCENARIES FIGHT AGAINST BOKO HARAM
They're relics of apartheid, Jakkie Cilliers, executive director of the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria, said of the South African mercenaries in Nigeria... READ MORE›
SIERRA LEONE DECLARED FREE OF EBOLA TRANSMISSIONS
In Sierra Leone, the hardest hit of any nation during the Ebola outbreak, nearly 4,000 people died from the disease altogether 14,000 were infected... READ MORE›
COURT UPHOLDS LIFE SENTENCE OF CHAD'S HISSENE HABRE
An appeals court in Senegal upheld the life sentence of Hissene Habre, former Chad president, on war crimes charges... READ MORE›
GAMBIA'S ADAMA BARROW NAMES FATOUMATA TAMBAJANG AS VP
New deputy leader had previously vowed to prosecute ex-ruler Yahya Jammeh for alleged crimes committed by his regime... READ MORE›
GAMBIAS NEW PRESIDENT IS SWORN IN AS TROOPS ENTER THE COUNTRY
But while Mr. Barrow has popular support in Gambia, it has not been enough to dislodge the erratic Mr. Jammeh... READ MORE›
WHY DEMOCRACY PREVAILED IN GAMBIA
The African Union announced that it would no longer recognize Mr. Jammeh as president as of Inauguration Day... READ MORE›
BOKO HARAMS CIVILIAN ATTACKS INTENSIFY
The attacks brought the death toll from Boko Haram attacks in the last week to more than 200... READ MORE›
YAHYA JAMMEH GAMBIAN PRESIDENT NOW REFUSES TO ACCEPT ELECTION DEFEAT
Yahya Jammeh, Gambian President, Now Refuses to Accept Election Defeat... READ MORE›
IN SENEGAL, IRAN AND SAUDI ARABIA VIE FOR RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE
At the APIJ in Dakar, Imam Niang extolled the virtues of Sunni Islam... READ MORE›
EMOTIONAL SURVIVOR RECOUNTS SHOOTING THAT KILLED HIS TWO SISTERS
She died upon arrival at a Paris hospital treating some of the at least 350 people wounded in Friday's attacks... READ MORE›
AFRICAN NATIONS ANSWER TO PROTESTS SHUT DOWN INTERNET
Most notably in 2011, Egyptian government officials cut internet and mobile network access to 80 million people as thousands of protesters gathered in Tahrir Square in Cairo... READ MORE›
AFRICAN NATIONS INCREASINGLY SILENCE INTERNET TO STEM PROTESTS
Most notably in 2011, Egyptian government officials cut internet and mobile network access to 80 million people as thousands of protesters gathered in Tahrir Square in Cairo... READ MORE›
AFTER BOKO HARAM RELEASES NIGERIAN GIRLS, AN ANGUISHED WAIT FOR PARENTS
The American and British embassies recently issued a warning that Boko Haram intended to kidnap foreign workers in northeast Nigeria... READ MORE›
FIVE HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSERS BACKED BY THE U.S. WHOM YOU NEVER HEARD OF
More than 30 were killed, mostly at the hands of Bahraini security forces, and hundreds more were wounded, according to human rights groups... READ MORE›
RUSSIAN-BACKED REBELS MASSING TO ATTACK KEY UKRAINIAN TOWNS KIEV
Secretary of State John Kerry issued a statement on Saturday saying that the United States was disappointed by the decision to postpone the election in Nigeria... READ MORE›
EIGHT DEAD IN WALL COLLAPSE AT SENEGAL'S DEMBA DIOP
It happened at Demba Diop stadium in the capital, Dakar, at the end of the League Cup final between Stade de Mbour and Union Sportive Ouakam... READ MORE›
GAMBIAN LEADER FACING OUSTER BY FOREIGN TROOPS ENDS TENSE STANDOFF
Mr. Barrow was sworn in Thursday in neighboring Senegal, where he took the oath of office inside the Gambian Embassy in Dakar... READ MORE›
GUINEA LAST NATION WITH EBOLA MAY SOON BE DECLARED FREE OF VIRUS
A Scottish nurse became critically ill last month after having recovered from Ebola, which she contracted doing charity work in Sierra Leone nearly a year ago... READ MORE›
JEB BUSH TALKS IMMIGRATION EDUCATION RELEASES EMAILS AS HE EYES 2016 BID
Attacks by the militant group, which is based in Nigeria, have increasingly spilled across borders in the region... READ MORE›
BOKO HARAM SAID TO USE MORE CHILDREN AS BOMBERS
Boko Haram used 44 children in suicide attacks last year, compared with only four in 2014, the report found... READ MORE›
TROOPS FROM CHAD AND NIGER TAKE ON BOKO HARAM
Facing direct engagement from government forces, Boko Haram has reverted to old tactics, bombing so-called soft targets in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri... READ MORE›