•Nigeria’s Super Eagles Nicolas Jackson scored twice as much-fancied Senegal began their Africa Cup of Nations bid with a convincing 3-0 win over Botswana yesterday, while Nigeria’s Super Eagles made harder work of their opening match against Tanzania before claiming a 2-1 victory. Elsewhere, there were also wins for the Democratic Repub...
•Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye Senegal has “decided to suspend” all extraditions to France, Dakar’s justice minister said, accusing Paris of refusing to hand over two Senegalese citizens to the West African country. The row comes after the French courts postponed a decision last month on whether to return a Senegalese press b...
•Deposed President Umaro Sissoco Embaló Guinea-Bissau’s deposed president, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, has arrived in Senegal, the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed, a day after a group of military officers in Guinea-Bissau seized power in a coup. Senegal’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement last night night that Embalo had arriv...
•Senegal players celebrate goal South Africa, Ivory Coast and Senegal all won convincingly yesterday to fill the last three automatic places reserved for Africa at the 2026 World Cup. Senegal were the most impressive winners, hammering Mauritania 4-0, while Ivory Coast beat Kenya 3-0 and South Africa were also 3-0 winners, against Rwanda, repo...
Ten-man Madagascar produced a dramatic extra-time winner to beat Sudan 1-0 in Dar es Salaam and book their place in their first-ever African Nations Championship (CHAN) final. The Barea, who finished third in their only previous appearance three years ago, will face Morocco, who edged Senegal 5-3 on penalties after the two sides drew 1-1 [&hel...
Defending champions, D’Tigress of Nigeria, defeated their fierce rivals, Senegal, 75-68 to reach the final of the 2025 AfroBasket Women ongoing on Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. The high-intensity encounter saw D’Tigress start strong, taking the first quarter 22–17, showcasing sharp offensive execution and tight defensive control, reports Sunday Inde...
•D’Tigress of Nigeria African Champions, Nigeria’s D’Tigress have advanced into the semi-finals of the 2025 FIBA Women’s AfroBasket with a crushing 83-47 victory over Cameroon last night in Abidjan. The six-time and defending champions will now meet Senegal in the next stage of the competition, reports The PUNCH. In the quarter-finals ga...
•A Sengalese soldier holds a Senegal flag today during a ceremony where France will return Camp Geille, its largest base in the country, and its airfield at Dakar airport France today formally handed back its last two military bases in Senegal, leaving Paris with no permanent camps in either West or Central Africa. The pull-out, […]
•Akon Senegal has cancelled Akon’s $6 billion plan to build a futuristic “Akon City” on the country’s Atlantic coast, after years of inaction and missed payments by the Senegalese-American singer, reports Bloomberg. The project, first announced in 2020, was pitched as a tech-driven smart city inspired by Marvel’s Wakanda and promised to transf...
The United States rejected visa applications for multiple members of Senegal’s women’s basketball team, which was scheduled to train in the country, the country’s prime minister said yesterday, as he cancelled the group’s participation in the practice. The visa refusals come amid the US President Donald Trump’s administration’s immigration cra...
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