The Supreme Court of Senegal ruled on Thursday to uphold the guilty verdict rendered by the Court of Appeal against Ousman Sonko, the leader of the PASTEF opposition party, on May 8, 2023. Sonko’s eligibility for the next presidential election, the first round of which is slated for February 25, is now called into question.
A video of a man brandishing a knife at small children—particularly a young girl—was posted on social media on December 26
On Wednesday, an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated on Senegalese army troops attempting to enter a cannabis farm allegedly run by the Mouvement des Forces Democratiques de Casamance (MFDC).
It was a busy Wednesday night in Bissau. Early in the night, Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embaló fired Geraldo João Martins,
Gibril Darboe, a young Gambian migrant in Pescasseroli Italy, lost two family members in the latest migrant shipwreck off Libya’s coast. Both were on a boat that went down in the Mediterranean on Thursday. They were on their way to Abruzzo.
Like many African presidents, Vladimir Putin, candidate for a fifth term and absolute ruler of Russia for a quarter of a century, is steadily climbing to the top of the list of world leaders who have mostly muzzled the opposition.
If you want to get to Saint-Louis, the major city in northern Senegal, you now have a choice between land and air. On Thursday, December 7, 2023, following the inaugural flight by the national airline, Air Senegal, the Minister of Air Transport and Airport Infrastructure Development, Antoine Mbengue, handed over the certification of this infrastructure to the Managing Director of AIBD SA, Abdoulaye Dièye.
On Thursday, 27 new attorneys were welcomed to the legal profession by Chief Justice Hassan B. Jallow, who praised their devotion, diligence, and hard work. He exhorted them to preserve court integrity, pursue further studies, and pursue personal development.
Sierra Leone’s government last Friday announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding with China Road and Bridge Corporation and the architectural firm of the Atepa Group for the construction of a 5-mile-long bridge across Freetown to Lungi at a cost of $1.5 billion.
According to the Bissau-Guinean Military Police, members of the Presidential Palace Battalion and National Guard agents engaged in combat in Bissau
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