(JollofNews) – The first phase of former Chad dictator Hissene Habre’s history-making trial for atrocities during the 1980s concluded in Senegal this week, with the regime’s victims giving at times traumatic and horrifying evidence.

(JollofNews) – Sheikh Sidia Bayo, the Gambian dissident who earlier this year was expelled by the Senegalese government for his alleged complicity in an attempt to destabilize The Gambia has once again made an unsuccessful attempt to return to Senegal.

(JollofNews) – The practice of begging in the streets has been banned in Senegal, says, Interior minister Abdoulaye Daouda Diallo.