Senegal protesters and police clash again as death toll rises to 10
Daka, SenegalReuters One more person was killed in Senegal on Friday, as police and protesters clashed for a second day since the sentencing of opposition politician Ousmane Sonko sparked some of the deadliest violence in recent memory. Nine people died in clashes between police and Sonko supporters on Thursday after he was sentenced to two […]
Crowds clash with riot police as Senegal’s Sonko sentenced to jail
Dakar, SenegalReuters Supporters of Senegal opposition leader Ousmane Sonko threw rocks at riot police and set fire to busses on Thursday after a court sentenced him in absentia to two years in jail, hitting his chances of running for president next year. Sonko, 48, was accused of raping a woman who worked in a massage […]
Senegal capital wades through floodwater after heavy rain
Dakar, Senegal Reuters Torrential rain fell across Senegal on Wednesday, causing floods in the capital Dakar and bringing down a section of one of the main highways into the city. Cars, scooters and pedestrians inched through torrents of brown knee-deep water as unusually strong downpours battered the semi-arid city, where sandy roads and flat-roofed houses […]
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Senegal’s street children turn trauma into art in Africa’s biggest exhibition
Thomson Reuters Foundation Young boys who were forced to beg on the streets for Islamic teachers have turned their suffering into art, as they join more than 1,000 artists showing their work at Africa’s biggest and oldest biennale art exhibition in Senegal this month. Some 50,000 child beggars known as talibe live in religious schools […]
African leaders join forces in pledge to stamp out child marriage
Thomson Reuters Foundation African political leaders, activists, and local chiefs joined forces on Monday to commit to ending child marriage in West and Central Africa, the region with the highest child marriage rate in the world. More than a third of girls in the region are married under the age of 18, with the rate […]