Sources: BBC
The Bissau-Guinean military installs General Horta Inta-A Na Man as interim leader for one year, while President Umaro Sissoco Embaló is flown to Senegal, with opposition candidate Fernando Dias da Costa alleging the coup was orchestrated to block the release of the election results he claims to have won. 2025-11-27
Citizens of Senegal vote for the 165 seats of the National Assembly after President Bassirou Diomaye Faye dissolved the parliament in September. 2024-11-17
Violent protests occur in Senegal following an announcement by President Macky Sall that presidential elections have been delayed from February 25 to December 15. 2024-02-10
At least 14 people are killed when a pirogue capsizes off the coast of Dakar, Senegal. 2023-07-24
Spain's Maritime Safety and Rescue Society rescues 86 people from a pirogue off the Canary Islands after human rights defender Helena Maleno reports that three boats carrying around 300 people from Senegal have gone missing since June. 2023-07-10
Senegal confirms a case of the Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever. 2023-04-29
Eleven babies are killed in a hospital fire in Tivaouane, Senegal. 2022-05-26
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
Voters in Senegal elect all 165 members of their National Assembly, with former President Abdoulaye Wade leading a coalition against the incumbent Macky Sall's United in Hope coalition. 2017-07-30
Voters in Senegal go to the polls for the Senegalese presidential election which has been marked by violence. 2012-02-26