Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau have announced a new junta leader, cementing a forceful takeover of power that began after a disputed presidential election and led to deposed President Umaro Sissoco Embaló departing for neighboring Senegal.

The Senegalese women’s basketball team has scrapped plans to train in the U.S. for the upcoming AfroBasket tournament in the Ivory Coast next month after several players and team officials had their visas denied.

Senegal’s government has signed an agreement with separatist rebels to bring peace in its southern region, where an armed rebellion has been raging for over 40 years over calls for independence.

Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé, a pioneer of African cinema with a career spanning 50 years, has died at age 84.

The illegal trade of lion and leopard parts is growing in Senegal and threatening the lion's survival across West Africa.

Khaby Lame, the Senegalese-Italian influencer who ranks as world’s most popular TikTok personality, has been named as a goodwill ambassador by the U.N.'s children’s agency.

For the artistic and cultural elites of the West African nation of Senegal, the monthlong Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Arts is a celebratory moment.

France's President Emmanuel Macron has for the first time recognized the killing of West African soldiers by the French Army in 1944 as a massacre.

The Associated Press had rare access to a night patrol by Senegal's navy as it scanned the sea for a growing number of vulnerable boats making the risky journey towards Europe.

Senegal's governing party is poised to win a majority of seats in the National Assembly.

People in Senegal are voting in a parliamentary election that will decide whether the country’s president will be able to carry out ambitious reforms, six months after he was voted in on an anti-establishment platform.

The Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art, or Dak’Art, has opened in the Senegalese capital.

For decades Senegal, a former French colony in West Africa, has been touted as the bastion of the French language in the region.

Senegal's president has dissolved the opposition-dominated parliament, paving the way for a snap legislative election after he took office on an anti-establishment platform.

France is commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Allied invasion of the French Riviera in World War II to push back the Nazis.

Officials in Spain say excess weight on a first-floor terrace may have contributed to the collapse of a building housing a bar and restaurant club on the island of Mallorca that killed four people.

A UN report says drug seizures have soared in the West African Sahel region in recent years, indicating the conflict-ridden region is becoming an influential hotspot for trafficking.

Senegal has inaugurated Africa’s youngest elected leader as president, as the 44-year-old and previously little-known Bassirou Diomaye Faye completed a dramatic ascent from prison to palace within weeks.

Senegal’s little-known, 44-year-old opposition leader Bassirou Diomaye Faye is named the country’s next president after preliminary results showed that he won the first round outright.

Senegalese have voted in a tightly contested presidential race following months of uncertainty and unrest that have tested the West African nation’s reputation as a stable democracy in a coup-prone region.

Senegal votes Sunday in a tightly contested presidential election that has fired up political tensions and tested one of West Africa’s most stable democracies.

Senegal’s only female presidential candidate may have little chance of winning in Sunday's election, but activists say her presence is helping to advance a decadeslong campaign to achieve equality in the West African nation.

The Senegalese government has announced March 24 as the new date for the country’s delayed presidential election.

Senegal’s President Macky Sall says that he will end his term in April as expected, but he has not given a new date for the presidential election originally scheduled for Sunday.

Senegal’s top election authority has voided the president’s postponement of a presidential election scheduled for Feb. 25 and its rescheduling in December, saying the moves were unconstitutional.

Senegalese President Macky Sall defended his decision to postpone elections as violent protests erupted across the country.

Senegal’s parliament has voted to delay the West African nation’s presidential election until Dec. 15 in a chaotic voting process that took place after opposition lawmakers were forcefully removed from the legislative building.

Senegal’s police have made arrests and fired tear gas at opposition supporters protesting against the president's decision to postpone elections scheduled for Feb. 25.

Senegal’s highest election authority has excluded two top opposition leaders from the final list of candidates for the West African nation’s presidential election next month.

More than 60 migrants are feared dead after a Spanish fishing vessel rescued a boat off Cape Verde that originally had more than 100 people aboard.

Dozens of people are dead or missing following an attempt to migrate from Senegal to Spain by sea.

Senegal’s public prosecutor said the opposition leader has been charged with conspiracy against the state and calls for insurrections, among other offenses.

A lawyer for Senegal's embattled opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has filed a lawsuit in a French court.

Demonstrators and civil rights groups in Senegal are accusing the country's security forces of working with armed civilians who shot and killed several people who participated in recent anti-government protests.

Senegal experts have called on the government to instill calm after days of the country’s deadliest violence in years and concerns it could have lasting consequences.

Senegal’s government has temporarily suspended mobile phone data as the country reels from days of deadly clashes between police and supporters of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko.

Senegal's government says the number of people killed in clashes between police and supporters of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has now risen to 15, including two security officers.

Senegal's government says at least nine people have been killed in violent clashes between police and supporters of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko.

A court in Senegal's capital says opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has been convicted of corrupting youth but acquitted of raping a woman who worked at a massage parlor.

The rape trial of Senegal’s main opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has been postponed to May 23.

Prosecutors in Senegal are appealing the two-month suspended sentence handed down to the West African country's top opposition leader.

Authorities have forcibly removed Senegal's opposition leader Ousmane Sonko from his car as he made his way to a court appearance.

Police in Senegal have smashed the windows of a top opposition leader’s car and forced him from the vehicle after he appeared in court.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says in an Associated Press interview that she expects Congress will ultimately vote to raise America's debt limit.

The four-day event celebrating African musicians across the continent culminated Sunday evening in a stadium on the outskirts of Senegalese capital Dakar.

Senegal is holding a legislative election.

Senegal's president says 11 newborns have died in a fire that broke out in the neonatal unit of a hospital.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says his country is interested in a major gas exploitation project in Senegal.

Senegalese officials say that Chad's former dictator Hissene Habre has died at the age of 79 of COVID-19 in Senegal.

Thousands of new coronavirus cases have been reported in West Africa in recent weeks amid low vaccination rates and the spread of the delta variant.

The tiny Mediterranean island of Lampedusa is in the throes of yet another season of migrants arriving by sea, and Ibrahima Mbaye and Waly Sarr can only watch from shore as their fellow Africans risk their lives to get here via unsafe smugglers’ boats.

Senegal and Spain signed a memorandum of understanding to encourage circular migration as part of efforts to mitigate migration flows that have been increasing amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Demonstrators shout slogans in front of riot policemen during a protest against the arrest of opposition leader and former presidential candidate Ousmane Sonko, Senegal, Monday, March 8, 2021. Senegalese authorities have freed opposition leader Ousmane Sonko while he awaits trial on charges of rape and making death threats. The case already has sparked deadly protests threatening to erode Senegal's reputation as one of West Africas most stable democracies. While Sonko publicly accused the president of plunging Senegal into an unprecedented crisis, the opposition leader said his goal wasn't to force Sall from power. Karim Wade, the son of the president Sall defeated in 2012, was once widely seen as the heir apparent before he was charged with corruption the following year.

A demonstrator holds up a Senegalese flag during protests against the arrest of opposition leader and former presidential candidate Ousmane Sonko in Dakar, Senegal, Friday, March 5, 2021. Days of violent protests in Senegal have killed at least one person, local reports say, as young people take to the streets nationwide in support of the main opposition leader who was detained Wednesday. This week’s unrest in Dakar has been the worst seen in years in a country known for its stability. Police moved in to disperse crowds throwing objects at security forces and setting tires, pieces of wood and other objects on fire near the tribunal where opposition leader Ousmane Sonko appeared. Demonstrators reappeared after prayers to be confronted by authorities lobbing tear gas cannisters.

(AP Photo/Mark Baker)CANBERRA, Australia — Australia is advancing the start of its coronavirus vaccination program to mid-February, with plans to inoculate 15% of the population by late March. Mexico’s vaccination effort continues at a glacial rate, with about 7,500 shots administered Wednesday, a rate similar to previous days. John Bel Edwards and public health officials said Wednesday that efforts are being made to speed up vaccinations for the coronavirus. So far, state officials have administered 126,602 of the 522,550 doses the state has received. More than 329,000 people have been vaccinated in Florida — or about 1.5% of the population — almost all of them either health care workers, residents in care homes, or people over the age of 65.

(AP Photo/Javier Bauluz)DAKAR – Spain’s foreign minister met Sunday with Senegal's president in the West African country’s capital Sunday to discuss the sudden increase of Senegalese migrants attempting to reach the Canary Islands by boat. Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha González Laya met with President Macky Sall in Dakar to discuss migration and border cooperation between Spain, the European Union and Senegal. Human rights groups have been warning about the reopening of the Atlantic route to the Canary Islands since late 2019, when arrivals began increasing slowly. He participated in the meeting between Spain's foreign minister and Senegalese counterpart Aïssata Tall Sall. Sarr said they would work with Spain to increase legal ways for Senegalese to work in Europe, including circular migration programs.

(AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)JOHANNESBURG Governments around the world should remove all obstacles to swift and equitable distribution of any successful COVID-19 vaccine, including by making all intellectual property and technologies immediately available, African countries said Thursday. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization supports a COVID-19 technology access pool where IP and data can be shared voluntarily. We cannot repeat the tragic history of delayed access to HIV treatment in sub-Saharan Africa, which cost millions of lives, Rizvi said. Strive Masiyiwa told the African vaccine conference that testing kits were available but only to the Western countries. ... Abbott and them were saying, You wait until September, wait until October. So I didnt waste any time with them.