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French flags burning: "We've had enough" VIDEO

The gathered Senegalese protesters set fire to the French flag, shouting: "Go away, France, we've had enough of you, France."
We remind you that a military coup took place in Niger last week.
Western military intervention in Niger is out of the question, because it would be a new colonization, said Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani.

Mane hints at leaving Liverpool

Sadio Mane scored a hat-trick as Senegal overcame Benin 3-1 on June 4 in the first match of its Africa Cup of Nations title defense, and hinted that he will not be at Liverpool next season.

Speaking to the media before the Group L clash, Mane said: "I will do what they [the Senegalese people] want.

A rare Picasso exhibition opens in Senegal’s capital

An unprecedented Picasso exhibition opened last week in Senegal's capital Dakar, where about a dozen of the Spanish master's works are displayed alongside African art, from which he drew inspiration.

A pioneering modern artist who died in France in 1973, Picasso left behind a vast and influential body of work including paintings, sculptures, and ceramics.

Africa faces tough job not to become world’s plastic ‘dustbin’

What can be done to prevent Africa from becoming the world's biggest dumping ground for plastic?

That's one of the big questions facing United Nations members next week at a stock-taking on Earth's environmental woes.

From Antananarivo to Dakar via Nairobi and Conakry, African cities are scarred by huge landfills where plastic waste is measured in the thousands of tonnes.

Senegal’s old capital on the frontline against rising sea

In the northern Senegalese city of Saint-Louis, excavators are ripping up the beach to lay giant blocks of basalt, in an eleventh-hour effort to keep the sea at bay.

When work is finished, a black sea wall will stretch for kilometers along the coastline of the West African country's former capital, famed for its colonial-era architecture.

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