Senegal’s opposition politician Bassirou Diomaye Faye is on his way to be announced the next president soon after he was released from jail, in a tumultuous vote that highlights the West African country’s standing as a resilient African democracy. While final election results have not yet been revealed, Bassirou is the winner after his rival, […]
16 people on board a boat used for illegal migration died in the night of Sunday to Monday July 24, after their vessel capsized off the Senegalese capital Dakar. “It seems to be migrants,” Samba Kandji, a district deputy mayor, told AFP on Monday. The local fire service, reports say, was alerted at dawn after […]
The investigating judge of the Audiencia Nacional in Madrid, Santiago Pedraz, heard on Tuesday, the first of the three witnesses, in the Brahim Ghali case, lodged at the end of last June by the defense of the Sahrawi Association of human rights (ASADEH). The witness, Sahrawi activist Ahmed Tarouzi who resides in Laayoune, told […]
