Senegal's President Macky Sall delivers a speech during the Franco-African Forum at the Bercy Finance Ministry in Paris, February 6, 2015. REUTERS/Ian Langsdon/Pool ZIGUINCHOR, Senegal (Reuters) - ...

DAKAR, Senegal — A new peace deal between Senegal and a separatist rebel group in the country’s southern region has been touted by the government as a key step in ending one of Africa’s longest ...

A military offensive in Senegal's southern region of Casamance has thrown separatist rebels on the back foot, raising the prospect that one of Africa's oldest conflicts may finally end. Thousands have ...

The Casamance conflict is a long-running, low-level war fought between the Senegalese government and the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC). Despite spanning more than 33 years, the ...

Senegal's army said on Tuesday that it had "totally destroyed" several rebel bases belonging to southern separatists, with one soldier killed and eight wounded in the military operation. On March 13, ...

DAKAR, Senegal -- The Senegalese military says 13 people have been killed by armed gunmen in the country's southern Casamance region. The bloodshed confirmed late Saturday by Col. Abdoul Ndiaye was ...

DAKAR, Senegal – Roman Catholic peacemakers say that several Senegalese soldiers were freed by rebels in the southern Casamance district. The Sant'Egidio Community confirmed, in a statement issued in ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 1 June 2001 Tensions in Senegal's ...

GENEVA - More than 2,200 people have fled to Gambia in the past few days following an upsurge of fighting in the neighbouring Senegalese province of Casamance, according to the UN refugee agency, ...

A group of European tourists have been robbed and sexually assaulted while driving through the Casamance region of southern Senegal, officials say. Armed men stopped the car as it was in the town of ...

ZIGUINCHOR, Senegal (Reuters) - Senegal's President Macky Sall pledged on Thursday to build a $500 million railway linking the capital, Dakar, to the southern Casamance region, cut off for years by ...