By Daniel Flynn
DAKAR (Reuters) - African reggae star Tiken Jah Fakoly, famed for his bitter criticism of the continent’s corrupt leaders, has turned his attention to Senegalese leader Abdoulaye Wade, calling on him bluntly to "leave power".
Fakoly, one of Africa’s best-loved muscians and a campaigner for peace in his native Ivory Coast, added his voice […]

ANKARA (AFP) — At least 51 people would be immigrants drowned off the Turkish coast in one of three incidents that left at least 90 other Africans trying to get to Europe missing, officials said Monday.As many as 85 people may have been aboard a 15-metre (45-foot) boat that capsized on Saturday in the […]

 
 DAKAR (AFP) — Some 40 Africans died at sea off Senegal as they were trying to reach the Canary Islands, police said Monday, quoting survivors.They said the boat had set off at the end of November from Diogue Island in southern Senegal, with 130 people aboard, but only 90 were left when it ran aground […]

 
By Scott Bobb Lisbon09 December 2007Bobb report - Download MP3 (644k)  Listen to Bobb report  
Leaders of Africa and the European Union have ended their summit in Portugal by declaring a new era in relations aimed at confronting new global challenges. But they could not avoid sparring over some older issues involving human rights and […]

ROME, Dec 7 (Reuters) - A Senegalese woman set herself on fire at Rome’s city hall on Friday in an apparent protest over a visit to Italy by Senegal’s President Abdoulaye Wade.
The woman, identified by city officials as Kebe Peinda Gotha, was in critical condition after dousing herself in flammable liquid and setting herself ablaze.
Police […]

By Nick Tattersall
DAKAR, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Senegal’s President Abdoulaye Wade cut the number of ministers in his government by more than a quarter on Tuesday in a belt-tightening show of solidarity with citizens hit by rising fuel and food prices.
Wade reduced the number of cabinet posts to 28 from 38, with the ministers of […]

By Nick Tattersall
DAKAR, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Senegal’s carefully polished reputation as a bastion of democracy in turbulent West Africa is dimming as its octogenarian leader, Abdoulaye Wade, grows increasingly autocratic, rights groups say.
Political posturing aimed at positioning his son to succeed him, the detention without trial of critical journalists and the diminishing powers of […]

By ELAINE SCIOLINO
PARIS, Nov. 27 — Two years after France’s immigrant suburbs exploded in rage, the rituals and acts of resentment have reappeared with an eerie sameness: roving gangs clashing with riot police forces, the government appealing for calm, residents complaining that they are ignored.
And while the scale of the unrest of the past few […]

By Nick Tattersall
KHELCOM FIELDS, Senegal, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Thousands of Senegalese Muslims, from bankers to bus drivers, flocked to the country’s dusty peanut fields this week in an annual show of devotion to the powerful Mouride brotherhood.
Bent double under blazing sunshine, ranks of men, women and children harvested the groundnuts by hand from the […]

By Phuong Tran

Dakar
12 April 2007

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Even though Senegal is located in a part
of the world known for volatile and violent politics, it is the only
West African country to not have had a coup. Seven years ago, it held
democratic elections that brought a new party to power. But, after
President […]