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Mexico’s immigration agency detains two buses carrying 102 migrants in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. The majority of the migrants came from the West African nations of Senegal and Guinea, as well as six from Djibouti, two from Congo and one from Mauritania.
2023-12-12

Senegal reports its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in a 58-year-old man who attended an international meeting in Dakar with 300 people from different countries on November 24 and 25.
2021-12-5

Senegal reports a record 733 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 45,796.
2021-07-14

Former President of French association football club Olympique de Marseille, Pape Diouf, dies from COVID-19 in Senegal, becoming the country's first fatality from the virus.
2020-03-31

Voters in Senegal approve a series of constitutional reforms, which include a reduction of presidential terms from seven to five years, with 63 percent of the vote.
2016-03-23

Macky Sall, former Prime Minister under Abdoulaye Wade's administration, is elected President of Senegal.
2012-03-26

A British television commentator is sacked after tickets used in the alleged 2010 FIFA World Cup "beer miniskirts stunt" are traced to him.
2010-06-17

Another riot occurs in Austria as the Serbia national football team meet the New Zealand national football team ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
2010-05-29

More than 74,000 South African football fans attend the first match at Soccer City—venue for the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final—less than three weeks before the tournament begins.
2010-05-22

Aftermath of 2010 Haiti earthquake: Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade offers "voluntary repatriation" to each of his Haitian "sons and daughters of Africa".
2010-01-17