A new $1.3 billion commuter railway in Senegal meant to ease traffic gridlock and modernise a crumbling public transport system made its inaugural journey from the capital Dakar on Monday. The Regional Express will connect Dakar with Diamniadio, an industrial city being built on a dusty plain about 40[Read More…]
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Child Refugee To Play For Gambia At Cup Of Nations Finals
AS Roma midfielder Ebrima Darboe, who made a perilous journey as a child migrant from Africa across the Mediterranean by boat, has been included in Gambia’s squad for next month’s Africa Cup of Nations. Darboe, 20, debuted in Serie A last season after arriving as a 14-year-old boat refugee in[Read More…]
Senegal Expects 400,000 COVID-19 Vaccines To Expire By Year-End
At least 200,000 COVID-19 vaccines have expired in Senegal without being used in the past two months and another 200,000 are set to expire at the end of December because demand is too slow, the head of its immunisation programme said on Monday. African governments have been calling for more[Read More…]
Senegal Records First Omicron Case In Tourist Who Attended Demonstration
Senegal has recorded its first case of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in a tourist who attended a demonstration in the capital Dakar last month with about 300 people of varying nationalities, testing lab IRESSEF said on Sunday. The 58-year-old man was visiting from another West African country and[Read More…]
Senegal’s Economy To Rebound To 5% Growth In 2021, Says IMF
Senegal’s economy will grow 5% in 2021 thanks in part to solid industrial output, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday, revising up a previous forecast of 3.5% growth for this year. The Fund said it had reached a staff-level agreement with the West African nation that could pave the[Read More…]
Ending Gas Financing For Africa Will Be A Fatal Blow, Says Senegal
Plans by some nations to end the financing of gas exploration will prove a “fatal cost” for several emerging African economies, Senegal President Macky Sall said at the start of the China-Africa Summit in Dakar on Monday. Senegal, like several other African countries, is sitting on billions of cubic metres[Read More…]
Senegal Logs Zero New COVID-19 Cases For First Time Since Pandemic Began
Senegal recorded zero new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday for the first time since the pandemic began, the health ministry said. The West African country had its worst wave of coronavirus in July, when it was recording more than 1,000 new cases a day. The health ministry has registered 73,875 cases[Read More…]
Senegal Seizes Record 2 Tonnes Of Cocaine Off Atlantic Coast
Senegal seized more than two tonnes of pure cocaine from a ship off its Atlantic coast, the navy said on Tuesday, in the West African country’s largest ever cocaine bust. The 2,026 kg of cocaine was found on a ship 363 km (226 miles) off the coast by naval forces[Read More…]
Ex-Ivory Coast President Gbagbo Launches New Party, Vows To Stay In Politics
Ivory Coast’s former president Laurent Gbagbo, ousted during a civil war in 2011 and acquitted of war crimes in The Hague, flew home on Thursday from a decade in exile as thousands took to the streets to welcome him. Gbagbo touched down in Ivory Coast’s main city of Abidjan late[Read More…]
Senegal, Morocco Secure Top Spots In World Cup Qualifying Groups
Senegal’s Famara Diedhiou scored a hat-trick on Tuesday to propel his country into the final phase of African World Cup qualifying followed later in the day by Morocco who also guaranteed top spot in their group with two games to play. Diedhiou, who left English second-tier club Bristol City for[Read More…]
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