Sources: BBC
In his New Year's speech, Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye announces the closure of French military facilities and the withdrawal of all foreign military forces from Senegal beginning in 2025. 2024-12-31
One person is killed and 30 others injured during protests against repression across Senegal. 2023-05-10
Senegal confirms a case of the Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever. 2023-04-29
Police in Bignona, Senegal, open fire against a group of people demonstrating against the arrest of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, killing a protester. 2021-03-4
The Extraordinary African Chambers tribunal in Dakar, Senegal, upholds its conviction of former Chadian president Hissène Habré for crimes against humanity, but acquits him of rape. 2017-04-27
Adama Barrow is sworn in as the Gambia's new President at the Gambian embassy in Dakar, Senegal. 2017-01-19
Police shoot and kill two people in Podor during protests over a decision by the Constitutional Council that President of Senegal Abdoulaye Wade can run for re-election. 2012-01-30
Nobel Peace Laureates Desmond Tutu and Shirin Ebadi lead hundreds of rights groups in calling on Senegal to try exiled Chadian dictator Hissène Habré for mass murder and torture. 2010-07-22
Sékouba Konaté, the interim head of the junta in Guinea, is flown to Senegal after falling ill. 2010-01-8