AP Interview: Al-Qaida, IS affiliates team up in West Africa
THIES, Senegal (AP) — The only place in the world where fighters linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group are coop...
US leads training exercises in Africa amid focus on Sahel
THIES, Senegal (AP) — Crouching in the sparse brush, maneuvering into formations through a divide, and then shooting at ...
US secretary of state visits Senegal to start Africa tour
DAKAR, Senegal — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the Trump administration is working to determine what level of American military forces is n...
WHO chief ‘very encouraged’ by dip in Congo Ebola cases
DAKAR, Senegal — The head of the World Health Organization said Tuesday that experts are "very encouraged” after only three new cases of Ebola have be...
US military chief in Africa argues for vital US presence
DAKAR, Senegal — The head of U.S. military forces in Africa argued Thursday against troop cuts on the vast and booming continent, saying strategic par...
Former IAAF president’s corruption trial opens in Paris
PARIS — The corruption trial involving the former president of track and field's governing body was suspended Monday shortly after it began.
10 films make shortlist for Oscars’ best international film
LOS ANGELES — Ten international films, including widely acclaimed offerings from South Korea, Spain and Senegal, are on the shortlist of movies vying ...
UN says 58 migrants dead as boat capsizes off Mauritania
DAKAR, Senegal — At least 58 people are dead after a boat carrying dozens of migrants capsized in the Atlantic Ocean off the West African nation of Ma...
The barrier-breaking ‘Atlantics’ heralds Mati Diop’s arrival
NEW YORK — Mati Diop has always lived in Paris but as a French-Senegalese woman whose family is from Dakar, she’s long been acutely conscious of anoth...