According to Yingi, young people in Senegal are also frustrated with high unemployment and want to see more jobs created, thus joining the protests. Buchanan Ismael, a political scientist at the ...

Political tensions have run high in Senegal for at least a year. Authorities also cut internet access from cellphones in June 2023 when supporters of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko clashed with ...

Adji Bousso Dieng is an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton University, an AI research Scientist at Google DeepMind, and the founder of The Africa I Know. She hails from Kaolack ...

His lawyer said a warrant hadn't been issued yet for his arrest. Sonko came in third in Senegal's 2019 presidential election and is popular with the country's youth. His supporters maintain his ...

Senegal’s foreign ministry announced Tuesday it was temporarily closing its overseas consulates amid raging political tensions that have fueled attacks on its diplomatic missions in Paris ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As Senegal president Macky Sall arrived in New York for this week’s UN gathering, pro- and anti-Sall ...

As Senegal president Macky Sall arrived in New York for this week’s UN gathering, pro- and anti-Sall protesters faced off near the country’s UN mission, in the latest sign of the political ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal votes Sunday in a tightly contested presidential election that has fired up political tensions and tested one of West Africa’s most stable democracies.

As Senegal president Macky Sall arrived in New York for this week’s UN gathering, pro- and anti-Sall protesters faced off near the country’s UN mission, in the latest sign of the political ...