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Senegal confirms a case of the Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever.
2023-04-29

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

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

Voters in Senegal go to the polls for a runoff in the presidential election with reports indicating that challenger Macky Sall has defeated incumbent Abdoulaye Wade.
2012-03-25

Fires rage through Dakar after Senegal's top court rules that President Abdoulaye Wade can run for a third term in office next month and prevents his best-known opponent, Grammy Award-winning musician Youssou N'Dour, from running against him.
2012-01-28

Senegalese rapper and government critic Omar Toure is arrested.
2011-07-26

Senegal severs diplomatic relations with Iran, accusing it of supplying weapons to anti-government rebels that killed Senegalese soldiers.
2011-02-23

Senegal recalls its ambassador to Iran, saying that Iran had not provided an adequate explanation for an arms shipment seized in Nigeria.
2010-12-15

African leaders meet in Chad to discuss the Great Green Wall tree belt from Senegal to Djibouti in the battle against the Sahara.
2010-06-17

Sékouba Konaté, the interim head of the junta in Guinea, is flown to Senegal after falling ill.
2010-01-8