The city's first artisan chocolate shop has opened in Dakar, run by Belgian-Congolese chef Danuta Nganko, who adds local ingredients such as hibiscus flower (bissap), moringa, baobab fruit (buy) to her chocolate

The 65th Senegal Independence Day was honored yesterday across the country with a grand parade themed "Toward Technological and Industrial Sovereignty of Defense and Security Forces"; this national holiday commemorates the struggle for freedom

The first bone marrow transplant ever performed in Senegal was carried out by a team of Senegalese doctors from the Dalal Jamm hospital in Guediawaye, Dakar; the patient is well after the first month of convalescence

3.000 employees in the parastatal sector and public administration have been laid off due to the country's economic crisis and years of mismanagement of government funds