Sources: BBC
At least 70 migrants are killed after a boat carrying about 150 people, mostly Gambian and Senegalese nationals, sinks off the coast of Mauritania, while over 30 others remain missing and 16 are rescued. 2025-08-27
Two people are killed and five others are injured when an assailant robs passengers and throws a Molotov cocktail on a bus in Dakar, Senegal. 2023-08-1
At least 14 people are killed when a pirogue capsizes off the coast of Dakar, Senegal. 2023-07-24
The World Organisation for Animal Health confirms that Senegal has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu at a poultry farm in Thiès. 2021-01-7
Senegal's president Macky Sall appoints his close aid Mahammed Dionne as the third prime minister in Sall's time in office, following the resignation of Aminata Touré. 2014-07-7
Violence breaks out in Dakar, Senegal, during an anti-government protest. 2012-02-18
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
The President of Senegal, Abdoulaye Wade, calls on Gaddafi to step down. 2011-06-9
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
The controversial African Renaissance Monument, which is taller than the Statue of Liberty, is inaugurated in the Senegalese capital Dakar. 2010-04-3