Senegal

An exhibition entitled 'Picasso in Dakar, 1972-2022' is currently underway at the Museum of Black Civilisations in Dakar, highlighting the links between the famous Spanish painter and the artistic heritage of Africans

The Akon City project, an Afrofuturist city inspired by the imaginary kingdom of Black Panther, Wakanda, is at starting point, with talks of financial fraud and land swindle, with the alleged complicity of state institutions

The Global Mercy, the world's largest civilian hospital ship, capable of treating 200 patients, leaves today for the country, where 93% have little or no access to health care and there are on average only two doctors for every 10.000 people

Barthélémy Dias took office as the new mayor of Dakar, after winning with 56% of the vote; his priorities are education, health, culture and cleaning up the city

For the first time in history, the country won the African Cup of Nations, beating Egypt on penalties

Senegalese journalist Sadibou Marong is the new head of Reporters Without Borders (Rsf) West Africa regional office based in Dakar

Senegal football national team goalkeeper Edouard Mendy has been crowned the best goalkeeper of the year at the Fifa The Best awards, ahead of Italy's Donnarumma and Germany's Neuer

The Office of the National Assembly has declared "inadmissible" the bill that aimed to tighten the criminalisation of homosexuality, already severely punished by the Senegalese penal code

Aminata Mansour Sène was the woman who led the inaugural journey of the regional express train linking the capital to Diamniadio, considered a revolution for public transport in Dakar

The typical Senegalese dish ceebu jën, made with rice and fish, has been inscribed on the Unesco World Heritage list