Senegal
Africans are reshaping French one rap and joke at a time
The French language is now spoken by more people outside France than within. It’s no wonder it’s beginning to sound more like TikTok.
- Elian Peltier
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Amazing and crowd-free: 12 of the world’s most underrated countries
Look beyond the usual destinations and you’ll find outstanding countries that offer something different, and may well be bargain-priced and uncrowded too.
- Brian Johnston
Woodside’s African oil delayed as costs jump
The ASX-listed energy heavyweight has pushed back the first production from its West African Sangomar oil project to address problems on the production vessel.
- Peter Milne
Senegal declares three days of mourning after dozens killed in bus crash
Footage from the scene showed two white buses, their mangled fronts entwined. Debris was strewn across the narrow road.
- Ngouda Dione
Where is Diary Sow? Angst in Senegal after its ‘best student’ goes missing in Paris
Well-wishers in Senegal, including the President, saw her as destined for greatness. Enrolled at one of France's most prestigious schools in Paris, she even published her own novel.
- Aurelien Breeden
Another port is storing 2700 tonnes of ammonium nitrate
Officials in Dakar want the exact quantity of the material that caused the Beirut explosion removed from its complex urgently and away from the city centre.
- Diadie Ba
African nations seek their own solutions in virus crisis
Complicating the task is the fact that the peak in coronavirus cases in Africa is expected to come after other countries have bought out available supplies.
- Elias Meseret
Renewables push: Senegal opens West Africa's first big wind farm
Wind farms remain scarce throughout sub-Saharan Africa compared with solar plants but Senegal hopes to draw 30 per cent of its energy from this plant.
- Nellie Peyton
Cruise West Africa: A Peregrine river cruise offers amazing insights into the history of slavery
"This is going to be your best cruise ever," says our guide. "Because you're in West Africa, the happy place."
- Catherine Marshall
Gunmen kill 13 in Senegal's Casamance region, says army
Gunmen shot dead 13 people and wounded seven others on Saturday in the forest of Senegal's southern region of Casamance, the army said.
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