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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.
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Dakar Rally to remain in Saudi Arabia, say organisers
Saudi Arabia will continue to be the home of the Dakar Rally for the next few years with race director David Castera telling AFP "we still have so many deserts to explore."
Castera was speaking after Jan. 14's penultimate stage with Qatari Nasser Al-Attiyah poised for his fifth title.
Türkiye’s top diplomat to embark on a three-country Africa tour
Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu will start a three-day African tour that will include Senegal, Ghana and Benin, the ministry said in a written statement on Oct. 24.
Senegalese circus troupe teaches kids to dream
Marietou Thiam's slender figure twists and twirls, suspended in mid-air by a hoop, under the spellbound gaze of onlookers at Dakar's first-ever circus festival.
Thiam is the artistic director -- and one of only two women members -- of Sencirk, Senegal's premier circus troupe, which organised the festival.
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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.
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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.
President Erdoğan embarks on three-day Africa tour
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has begun a three-day Africa tour that includes visits to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Senegal and Guinea-Bissau as part of Turkey's longstanding policy to deepen political and economic ties with the continent.
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China has Promised Africa 1 Billion vaccines against COVID-19
Chinese President Xi Jinping has promised to provide Africa with a billion doses of coronavirus vaccine in a speech delivered via video link at the China-Africa summit in the Senegalese capital, Dakar.
The Chinese leader said his country would donate 600 million doses directly.
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.