Senegalese government

Former Chad President Hissene Habre, who died this week while serving a life sentence for war crimes, was buried on Thursday in Senegal after a muted funeral in the car park of a half-built mosque littered with construction equipment.…

Dozens of female demonstrators in Dakar, Senegal's capital denounced the justice system and the excessive tolerance towards violence against women in Senegal. Aissatou Sène, the spokeswoman at the protest held at the Place de la Nation,…

Several hundred protesters rallied Sunday in Dakar to demand that homosexuality be made a crime in Senegal, according to AFP journalists. It is not illegal to identify as gay in the deeply conservative Muslim nation, but same-sex…

The New Payments Digitisation agenda has been launched in Senegal by the government with the support of the United Nations - Better than Cash Alliance scheme. Under this scheme, 8 out of 10  temporary workers are paid in cash; most are…

The U.S. government has granted Senegal funding to strengthen its capacity to deal with the Ebola epidemic, APA can report. The envelope granted through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) aims to support the…