New project set to rename public spaces bearing names of colonial officers as Dakar distances itself from France.

Prayers and melodic chants reverberated across Dakar’s Yoff neighborhood as thousands of Sufi Muslim followers from the ...

Lame joins a list of other celebrities that serve as ambassadors including Donald Glover(Childish Gambino) and Shakira.

For those living in Goma, which has been captured by Rwanda-backed rebels, there is little water, little food and much ...

Italian influencer who ranks as world’s most popular TikTok personality, has been named as a goodwill ambassador by the U.N.' ...

Once an emblematic landmark of traditional west African architecture, Dakar's fondly remembered Sandaga market can now only be marvelled at through old photographs.

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels have captured eastern Congo’s strategic city of Goma, the hub of a region containing trillions of dollars in mineral wealth that remains largely untapped. It ...

A Rwanda-backed militia seized the pivotal Congolese city of Goma this week, threatening a new humanitarian crisis after ...

DAKAR, Senegal — Bodies are lying on the streets ... It remained unclear how much of Goma is controlled by the rebels, who ...

Rwanda-backed rebels say they captured eastern Congo's largest city, Goma, as the United Nations described a "mass panic" ...

Panic is spreading in Goma in eastern Congo as M23 rebels encircle the city, battling Congo’s army. Many civilians have been ...