For decades Senegal, a former French colony in West Africa, has been touted as the bastion of the French language in the region. Leopold Sedar Senghor, the country’s first president and a poet ...

Senegal, Chad and Ivory Coast last month announced the departure of French troops just as Paris was devising a new strategy that would sharply reduce its permanent troop presence in Africa. Macron ...

It gives French companies easier access to natural resources in African countries where it is used. The move to replace it could test Senegal's relationship with France. In 2019, when Italy's ...

TASS/. Senegal intends to seek the withdrawal of French troops from its territory, Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye said in an interview with the French newspaper Le Monde. "This is ...

Ivory Coast and Senegal are following in the footsteps of Sahel countries that are fighting a war against jihadis linked to Islamic State and al-Qaida. After almost 10 years of French military ...

French troops are set to completely withdraw from Senegal by the end of 2025, following an announcement by President Diomaye Faye. But the Senegalese workers employed on France’s military bases ...

Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye decided yesterday to rename a major Dakar street honouring former French president Charles de Gaulle, calling it after independence icon Mamadou Dia instead.

Gorée Island, a UNESCO World Heritage Site off Senegal's coast, stands as a powerful memorial to the transatlantic slave ...

where military juntas have expelled French and American troops in recent years, this move comes from a democratically elected leader. Faye secured a decisive victory in Senegal's 2024 presidential ...