GOUDIRY, Senegal (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Slumped on a bench in a village in southeast Senegal - which is lifeless but for the occasional bleating of goats and splutter of old motorcycles - ...

On the southern border of Senegal lies a small village called Keur Niangane. The roughly 1,200 residents of this village reside in a desert zone, hours away from the capital of Dakar. This village is ...

FASS BOYE, Senegal (Reuters) - The brightly painted boats in the Senegalese fishing village of Fass Boye lay idle on Friday. The sound of wailing drifted from households out to the empty streets.

BANJUL, Gambia, August 23 (UNHCR) - More than 4,500 people have fled to Gambia from southern Senegal in the past few days amid rising tension in the country's volatile Casamance region. The UN refugee ...

Under a cloudy sky in the coastal Senegalese village of Fass Boye, the local chief's voice resounds over a loudspeaker, calling villagers to pray for the souls of their lost loved ones. Dozens of ...

This paper explores the monitoring and evaluation system of the Millennium Villages Project in Potou, rural Senegal. It specifically focuses on the first evaluation report undertaken in 2009 after ...

Solar engineer Dousso Konaté. Photo courtesy Orchid Project. * Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Not only have the girls from ...

Sadio Mane has sent 300 Liverpool shirts to his home village in Senegal for fans to wear during Saturday’s Champions League final against Real Madrid. The Liverpool forward — part of a fearsome front ...

Local activists and would-be migrants Moussa Kebe (L) and Ousmane Thiam (R) pose for a photo on a farm in Goudiry, Senegal, September 5, 2016. REUTERS/Mikal McAllister By Kieran Guilbert GOUDIRY, ...

Prayer at the village mosque in Fass Boye, where around 100 people set to sea hoping to reach Europe a month ago - Copyright AFP Handout Prayer at the village mosque ...

Most fail. Many die. Senegal is among the top 10 countries of origin for migrants arriving in Italy this year, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says, along with countries like ...