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  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Senegal leader Macky Sall vows to step down at end of his term in April

    President aims to set date for election next week after his decision to delay poll sparked constitutional crisis

    Senegal’s President Macky Sall in Brussels last year
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    Senegal’s top court censures president for postponing election

    Constitutional Council says Macky Sall does not have authority to cancel vote that must be held as soon as possible

    A man walks past a burning barricade during demonstrations in Dakar
  • Friday, 9 February, 2024
    Senegal cast into turmoil by ‘shockwave’ constitutional crisis

    One of Africa’s most stable democracies reels after postponement of vote to replace President Macky Sall

    Police officers in Senegal stand on a road blocked with burning barricades
  • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
    David Pilling
    Senegal’s ‘constitutional coup’ is part of a global democratic backsliding

    No shots were fired but the west African country missing its election has repercussions beyond its borders

    Protesters gesture after police fired teargas at them outside the General Assembly in Plateau, Dakar
  • Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
    Police eject Senegalese MPs after vote to delay presidential election

    Macky Sall’s move to postpone sparks protests in capital and opposition warnings of ‘constitutional coup’

    Protesters attempt to gather near the National Assembly in Dakar, Senegal, on Monday
  • Monday, 5 February, 2024
    Constitutional crisis looms in Senegal after president delays vote

    Opposition groups denounce ‘constitutional coup’ that jeopardises democracy in stable west African country

    Three men wearing facemasks run in the foreground. One carries a rock. In the background flames can be seen rising from the ashes of a fire
  • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
    News in-depth
    Political crisis shakes Senegal’s image of stability in a volatile region

    West African county hit by unrest and allegations of a political witch hunt ahead of a bitterly contested presidential vote

    Protesters march through the streets of Dakar with a portrait of Senegal opposition leader Ousmane Sonko
  • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
    News in-depthAfrican politics
    Where is the next African coup?

    Emboldened generals are realising they are likely to face little effective resistance to putsch attempts

    Police in Geneva hold back people protesting against Cameroon’s president Paul Biya
  • Monday, 10 July, 2023
    FT CollectionsWar in Ukraine: geopolitics
    African leaders tell Putin to show his ‘desire for peace’

    Senegal president presses Moscow for humanitarian ‘progress’ ahead of Russia-Africa summit

  • Monday, 3 July, 2023
    Macky Sall says he will not run for third term as Senegal president

    Political tension defused with surprise withdrawal by incumbent in the face of protests and riots

    Macky Sall
  • Friday, 2 June, 2023
    Nine die in Senegal clashes after opposition leader jailed

    Violence erupts in Dakar and southern town of Ziguinchor after presidential hopeful Ousmane Sonko convicted of ‘corrupting youth’

    A demonstrator throws stones in Senegal’s capital Dakar as violence broke out after the country’s leading opposition politician was given a two-year jail sentence
  • Thursday, 1 June, 2023
    Senegal opposition leader sentenced to prison despite rape acquittal

    Ousmane Sonko’s conviction for ‘corrupting the youth’ could complicate his bid to challenge incumbent president

    Ousmane Sonko waving to his supporters
  • Monday, 30 January, 2023
    InterviewFilm
    Alice Diop on her film Saint Omer: ‘It questions the complexity of the maternal bond’

    The director discusses dramatising the trial of a woman who left her child to die — and why it reflects ‘a very French form of racism’

    A woman in a blue jacket stares ahead
  • Monday, 16 January, 2023
    US foreign policy
    Yellen to visit African countries as US steps up overtures

    Washington is seeking to entice nations away from financial and resource ties to China

    Janet Yellen with Zambian president Hakainde Hichilema
  • Sunday, 4 December, 2022
    FIFA World Cup
    Ruthless England get job done against Senegal

    Tougher challenge against France awaits in World Cup quarter-final

    England’s Jordan Henderson, left, celebrates with his teammate Jude Bellingham after scoring his side’s first goal during the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between England and Senegal, at the Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor, Qatar
  • Saturday, 28 May, 2022
    Travel
    Discovering Dakar, the coastal capital on Africa’s westernmost tip

    The rally is long gone, but Sarah Provan relishes the city’s laidback streetlife, beaches and markets — plus a pink lake and a North Korean behemoth

  • Tuesday, 26 October, 2021
    BioNTech
    BioNTech to open Africa’s first mRNA manufacturing plant

    Rwanda and Senegal agreement a big step in plans to produce Covid jabs on the continent

    A health worker vaccinates a retiree with a Pfizer Covid vaccine in South Africa
  • Sunday, 10 October, 2021
    Special ReportInvesting in Education
    Schools focus on basic skills to improve poorest children’s chances

    Literacy and numeracy targeted as foundation for later success in low-income countries

    A reading class at Fatick Teacher Training School, central Senegal
  • Tuesday, 24 August, 2021
    Chad
    Former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré dies after contracting Covid

    Ex-president was convicted of overseeing killings of tens of thousands of people

    Former Chadian President Hissene Habre gestures as he leaves a court in Dakar, Senegal
  • Saturday, 12 June, 2021
    InterviewFiction
    International Booker winner David Diop on France’s colonial legacy

    The author of ‘At Night All Blood is Black’ gives voice to the first world war’s forgotten Senegalese soldiers

  • Friday, 11 June, 2021
    Film
    African cinema’s undersung auteurs rediscovered

    Ousmane Sembène’s newly restored 1968 classic Mandabi is among the works prompting a rethink of the film canon

    Marème Niang and Magaye Niang in Djibril Diop Mambéty’s ‘Touki Bouki’, made in 1973. The title is Wolof for ‘The Journey of the Hyena’
  • Monday, 8 March, 2021
    Senegal opposition leader Sonko released after protests

    Demonstrations in West African country have left eight people dead

  • Monday, 22 February, 2021
    HTSI
    The philanthropic genius of Josef and Anni Albers

    Fifty years ago the Bauhaus artists established a foundation to use “minimal means to maximum effect”. A cultural centre, school and, now, hospital in Senegal are a perfect expression of their aims

    Anni and Josef Albers at home in Orange, Connecticut, 1968
  • Sunday, 9 August, 2020
    Paul Collier
    Pandemic threatens African economic success

    Fall in commodity prices benefits advanced economies

    The slump in tourism worldwide is a heavy blow for Africa
  • Monday, 27 July, 2020
    Capricorn Energy
    Cairn sells Senegal assets to Lukoil with eye on acquisitions

    UK oil and gas developer to pay special dividend and boost war chest after deal with Russian group

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