November 27

• Senegal: Developing Urban Agriculture

  Watering cans in hand, men and women move back and forth between the wells and water storage tanks and the crops they're watering: carrots, onions, tomatoes, cabbage, and potatoes,... Read more »

November 12

• Senegal: Senegal Villages Aspire to Self-Sufficiency in Rice

  The residents of five villages in the Boyard Valley, in southwestern Senegal, are freeing themselves from "the tyranny of imported rice" by stepping up local production of this... Read more »

October 16

• Senegal: Village Project Helps Rural Producers in Senegal

  Increased harvests in the northern Senegalese community of Léona provide evidence of the benefits of multifaceted support for agriculture. But as their yields grow, farmers... Read more »

October 3

• Senegal: Concrete Jungle Grows

  In the midst of the building frenzy in Senegal, the construction of buildings that cost less than 60,000 dollars, and thus do not require a building permit, is going unchecked by... Read more »

September 12

• Senegal: Polygamy Throttles Women in Senegal

  Fatou (40), Awa (32) and Aissatou Gaye (24) sit in a meditative mood on the tiled floor outside their matrimonial home in Keur Massar, a township in the Senegalese capital Dakar. Read more »

September 10

• Senegal: Agricultural Activity to Slow Clandestine Emigration From Senegal

  "It was Ibrahima Sarr, a friend and fellow fisherman, who got me involved with smuggling people across the seas." Senegalese fisherman Doudou Ndoye speaks with the bittersweet... Read more »

September 5

• Senegal: Thousands Live Off Market Gardens

  Thousands of farmers are earning a living growing fruit and vegetables in the Niayes, a strip of fertile land running north along Senegal's western coastline from the outskirts of... Read more »

August 31

• Senegal: Biomass Plant Lights Up Rural Senegal

  A new power plant in the eastern Senegalese village of Kalom is generating more than just electricity. Powered by agricultural waste, the station has lit up homes, lightened... Read more »

August 17

• Senegal: Cooperative Gives Youth Reasons to Stay at Home

  Like many other young Senegalese, Pape Mokhtar Diallo long dreamed of escaping his rural home in northern Senegal for a better life. Three times he tried and failed to go overseas.... Read more »

August 2

• Senegal: Women Break Records in Parliament

  A record number of women were sworn in as legislators as Senegal's new parliament was inaugurated on Monday. Read more »

May 4

• Senegal: Cashew Producers' Pain Is Intermediaries' Gain

  Cashew nut growers in the southern Senegalese region of Casamance are complaining bitterly that intermediaries are cutting them out of a fair share of the profits. Read more »

March 29

• Senegal: New Alternative After Wade Defeat

  Analysts say that Senegal's outgoing President Abdoulaye Wade was made to pay for his failure to respond to popular demands, particularly arising from the high cost of basic... Read more »

March 27

• Senegal: Investment in Rural Youth Bearing Fruit

  Darou Ndoye is the sort of village young people cannot wait to leave in search of better prospects in the city or across the seas in Europe. But 40 youth working on 10 hectares of... Read more »

February 23

• Senegal: Two Women Among 14 Candidates for President

  There are two women among the 14 candidates contesting the first round of Senegalese presidential elections that will be held on Feb. 26. But according to several analysts, this... Read more »

February 6

• Senegal: Students Call for President to Step Down

  The friends of slain Senegalese student protester, Mamadou Diop, say that the 32-year-old master's student was against injustice and that is why he was protesting against President... Read more »

February 1

• Senegal: Violence After Validation of Wade Candidacy

  It was stones against tear gas in the Senegalese capital this morning as students protested the killing of one of their own on Tuesday evening. At least four people have died since... Read more »

January 6

• Senegal: Double Sentence - Aids in a Local Prison

  Amadou* takes in a long, deep breath, clears his throat and steps to the front of the room. He turns to look out at a familiar group of faces sitting on long wooden benches here at... Read more »

September 20, 2011

• West Africa: Households Turning to Cow Dung for Energy

  There are dusty barrels carefully positioned outside many of the family compounds in the Léona neighbourhood of Kaolack, a city of 20,000 in western Senegal: signs of... Read more »

July 22, 2011

• Senegal: Fish Farming Breathes New Life Into Rural Economy

  July signals the start of three months of intense activity for residents of the seven villages around the small dam at Sébi Ponty. The dam was stocked with tilapia in 2006,... Read more »

June 9, 2011

• Senegal: Senegal - Making Hand Washing Easy

  Think hand washing can't be fun? Think again. In Senegal, a unique water system offers people an easy, cheap and environmentally friendly way to wash their hands frequently,... Read more »

April 27, 2011

• Senegal: Local Health Posts a Qualified Success

  "We no longer need to go to Hanène, three kilometres away, for vaccinations or for a check-up for our children," said Maguette Niang, a 40-year-old mother from Keur Madaro,... Read more »

April 18, 2011

• Senegal: Dispute Over Fishing Permits for Foreign Fleets Hots Up

  Senegal's small-scale fishers are challenging the government over licences granting foreign trawlers permission to fish in Senegalese waters. The artisanal fishers condemn the... Read more »

February 11, 2011

• Senegal: Fisheries Need Transparent Regulation

  Senegalese fishers participating in the 2011 World Social Forum (WSF) warned governments to "wake up to the ethical and transparent regulation of access to fisheries" to halt the... Read more »

February 10, 2011

• Senegal: Q&A - the People Need to Take Leadership [interview]

  While the international community is now talking of a triple global crisis - food, climate and economic - a weeklong session of the World Social Forum (WSF) is coming to a close in... Read more »

February 7, 2011

• Senegal: World Social Forum - Dhaka to Dakar

  Is it more important to build links with African civil society groups or concentrate on existing networks in the South Asian region? That is the dilemma before Indian delegates... Read more »