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Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), an al-Qaeda affiliate, has emerged as the most powerful militant force in West Africa, now commanding up to 6,000 fighters and staging coordinated, high-impact attacks across the Sahel, experts warn. According new analysis titled ‘JNIM Expanding Geographic Reach and Staging Coordinated Attacks in the Sahel’, JNIM’s recent assaults in Timbuktu […]
Senegal’s sweeping anti-corruption campaign has reached a new milestone as former community development minister Amadou Mansour Faye becomes the fifth top official from the previous government to be indicted. The High Court of Justice, a special tribunal established to try ex-officials, charged Faye with embezzling over $4.6 million in public funds and ordered his immediate […]
Over fishing by foreign vessels off Senegal decimated fish stock and forced many fishermen to try an illegal sea crossing to the Canary Islands, The Environmental Justice Foundation, a London-based group specializing in environmental and human rights issues, said. Illegal crossings to the Spanish archipelago increased following the surge in overfishing by foreign vessels, the […]
Senegal’s Sangomar oil field, located 100 kilometers off the coast of Dakar, achieved “record sales” of nearly 4 million barrels of oil in April, Energy, Petroleum and Mining Minister Birame Souleye Diop announced. “I would like to announce exclusively that we have made a record sale of 3.8 million barrels from the Sangomar oil field […]
In the dusty border town of Rosso, straddling the frontier between Mauritania and Senegal, the humanitarian burden is growing heavier by the day as waves of deported migrants arrive with nowhere to turn. Weeks into Mauritania’s intensified crackdown on undocumented migrants, hundreds—many hailing from Guinea, Mali, Senegal, Gambia, and Côte d’Ivoire—find themselves stranded in harrowing […]
The French army has started procedures to leave Senegal, handing over two military facilities to the West African country. “The French side handed over to the Senegalese side the facilities and housing in the Maréchal and Saint-Exupéry districts on Friday, March 7, 2025,” the French Embassy in Senegal said in a statement. “Located near Hann […]
Senegal has officially ended one of Africa’s oldest conflicts with the signing of a peace agreement between the government and the separatist Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC). The agreement, brokered by Guinea-Bissau’s president Umaro Sissoco Embalo, brings a historic conclusion to the 40-year-long low-key struggle for independence by Casamance rebels in the southern […]
Ways of enhancing further cooperation in judicial matters between Morocco and Senegal were at the center of talks held Monday in Rabat between Mohamed Abdenabaoui, first President of Morocco’s Court of Cassation & President Delegate of the High Council of the Judiciary, and Mohamadou Mansour Mbaye, first President of the Supreme Court of Senegal. The […]
Senegal and France have decided to establish a joint commission to handle the withdrawal of all French military personnel from the West African nation by the end of 2025. The joint commission is tasked with managing the departure of 350 French troops and the handover of French military bases, a joint statement from the foreign […]
China is intensifying its space cooperation with Africa, securing agreements with 23 African countries to fund satellite and ground station projects that collect valuable imagery and data. This effort is part of a broader strategy to boost China’s global influence in space and surpass the United States in technological advancements at a time when Washington […]