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    • 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

    • Monday, 22 June, 2020
      African economy
      Senegal president admits virus will delay oil projects

      Macky Sall says ripple effects from pandemic are having devastating effect on business

      Macky Sall
    • Thursday, 26 March, 2020
      Coronavirus
      UK-Senegal partnership to trial 10-minute coronavirus test

      Pocket-sized kit offers potential lifesaver for poorer countries battling to contain pandemic

      A scientific staff member works in a secure laboratory, researching the coronavirus, at the Pasteur Institute in Dakar on February 3, 2020. - The Pasteur Institute in Dakar, designated by the African Union as one of the two reference centres in Africa for the detection of the new coronavirus that appeared in China, is hosting experts from 15 countries on the continent this weekend to prepare them to deal with the disease. (Photo by Seyllou / AFP) (Photo by SEYLLOU/AFP via Getty Images)
    • Friday, 13 December, 2019
      Travel
      Travel writers’ discoveries — and disappointments — of 2019

      From Senegal’s spectacular capital to the snows of the Val di Fassa, FT contributors share their most eye-opening trips

    • Tuesday, 10 December, 2019
      Mining
      Barrick sells 90% stake in Senegalese gold mine to Teranga Gold

      Gold producer to get up to $430m as it pushes ahead with asset sales

    • Wednesday, 10 July, 2019
      BP PLC
      BP says Senegal conducting ‘investigations’ into gas deal
    • Tuesday, 25 June, 2019
      Senegal president’s brother resigns over gas deal allegations

      Aliou Sall steps down as fallout from contract involving BP and Frank Timis builds

      Aliou Sall, brother of Senegalese President Macky Sall, speaks during a news conference in Dakar, Senegal June 3, 2019. REUTERS/Christophe Van Der Perre - RC13C4A9C000
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