Akon to Create Climate-Conscious City in Senegal On Jan. 13, Akon announced the finalization of his agreement to create Akon City in Mbodiene, Senegal. In a post to Instagram, Akon told fans he was “looking forward to hosting [them] there in the future.” Akon, via Instagram The 46-year-old celebrity previously discussed his plans for the city in an interview with Nick Cannon in December.

In Bandia, there used to be a forest of baobab trees, but all that remains is a lunar landscape of abandoned craters. In Senegal, Plans to extend a cement plant that has been exploiting the subsoil for 20 years are causing local populations to fear even greater desolation.

Not a single train has travelled on the line connecting the capitals of Mali and Senegal since May 17, 2018, when the company collapsed. Knee-high weeds grow on the track at Bamako station. But even today, many of the railway's workers -- unpaid but still technically employed -- still show up at the station, a colonial-era bijou in ochre stone, complete with clock and signs for the ticket office.

A pair of conjoined twins from Senegal are about to start full-time nursery in their new home of Cardiff, defying the expectation that they would only live a few days.

Work hard and become the best was British model Naomi Campbell's message to the young African female basketball players from the SEED academy in Senegal on Friday.

Senegal national soccer team returns home to a presidential welcome despite loss in Africa Cup of Nations final.

Senegal became the first side to book their place in the Africa Cup of Nations 2019 semifinals courtesy of a 1-0 win over Benin, while Nigeria overcame South Africa thanks to a last-gasp winner.

Liverpool star Sadio Mane says 'the word doubt doesn't exist' in his mind after missing a first-half penalty before taking one again and scoring a brace in the second half, as Senegal beat Kenya 3-0 to book a place in the Africa Cup of Nations last 16.

Who will win Africa's biggest football championship? We asked some experts to give their predictions on the AFCON, and here is what they had to say.

In conservative Senegal, a controversial TV show has the self-described monitors of public morality in uproar. But the defenders of 'Mistress of a married man' say the soap takes a much needed look at relationship issues such as male abuse, the pain experienced by abandoned spouses, and a woman's right to sexual pleasure.

Marie Diouf has built a business gathering salt from marshland she bought in Senegal, succeeding in a trade where most marsh owners are men, and earning her the nickname "Salt Queen".

The latest superfruit? Senegal hopes to cash in on fruit of baobab tree.