Gorée Island, off the coast of Dakar, is a somber reminder of the transatlantic slave trade. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it embodies both the duty to remember and the challenges of passing ...

The island of Gorée lies off the coast of Senegal, opposite Dakar. From the 15th to the 19th century, it was the largest slave-trading centre on the African coast. Ruled in succession by the ...

The international campaign for the safeguarding of the Island of Gorée has as its objective the rehabilitation of the heritage and the socio-economic revitalization of the Island, the principal ...

First discovered in the fifteenth century by Portuguese seamen, the litle volcanic island of Gorée, just off the African coast, gained historical significance as an important and well-fortified ...

Thai police have arrested a French fugitive on the tropical holiday island of Phuket over a deadly prison breakout that freed a notorious drug lord nicknamed "The Fly." Adonis Correa, 24 ...

Massar Mbodj lives in a bunker under a cannon on Gorée island, off the coast of Senegal, which was a centre for slave trading for more than 300 years. Video journalists: Arwa Barkallah and Raissa ...

ST. MARYS, Ga. — Two men charged in a "brutal" murder that occurred in the "Gilligan's Island" area of St. Marys in 2023 were sentenced to life in prison earlier this month, the Brunswick ...

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Court of Appeal has upheld the first-degree murder conviction of James Busch, who escaped from a Vancouver Island prison in 2019 with another inmate, then killed a ...

The Slave House, responsibility for which has been assumed by the foundation Gorée/Fraternité ... An important feature of the island, the 'Western Battery', received emergency assistance amounting to ...

An intervention of the old Portuguese colonial system through the "shaking" or exorcism of the Maison des Esclaves (House of Slaves) on Gorée Island. Presented as a diptych with "O Sacudimento da ...