Seeking shelter in a tent of sticks and rags after floods devastated her village in northeastern Senegal, Khardiatou Sy says ...

Wide areas of farmland are submerged in north and eastern regions of the West African country, sweeping away the livelihoods ...

And this time, I would go further—I’d be spending a week gliding up the Senegal River, 125 miles from Saint-Louis to the trading town of Podor, on a river cruiser, the Bou el Mogdad. Saint-Louis is ...

The Gambia is a thin sliver of land either side of the eponymous river, surrounded on three sides by Senegal. The 1.9km (1.2 miles) Senegambia bridge near Farafenni links the two halves of The ...

The Portuguese, who had explored much of the coast of western Africa under the sponsorship of Prince Henry, landed along the shores of the Senegal River 350 years earlier.

The 28-year-old is one of tens of thousands to have been displaced when torrential rains caused the Senegal River to burst its banks in October. The scale of the destruction is one of the many ...