Thousands of people demonstrated Sunday in Dakar to demand a strengthening of the repression of homosexuality in Senegal after the recent rejection by the Parliament of a text hardening the laws on the matter, noted journalists of the AFP. “No to homosexuality,” chanted the demonstrators on the Place de la[Read More…]
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Gambia: Barrow To Attend Liberia’s Bicentennial Commemoration
President Adama Barrow of the Gambia will Monday travel to Liberia to ttend the official opening ceremony of the country’s bicentennial commemoration. The event will mark 200 years since the arrival of the first batch of liberated Africans from the United States to present-day Liberia, thus becoming the first Republic[Read More…]
Ecstatic Crowds Greet AFCON Winners Senegal In Dakar
Senegal’s football team arrived home a day after winning the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) to hundreds of thousands of ecstatic and chanting fans in the capital Dakar. Huge crowds descended on a military airport in the West African country’s capital on Monday, blowing vuvuzelas and waving flags in celebration.[Read More…]