Mark Banchereau

People in Senegal are voting in a parliamentary election that will decide whether the country’s president will be able to carry out ambitious reforms, six months after he was voted in on an anti-establishment platform.

Niger’s military junta has banned the French aid group Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development, or Acted, from working in the country amid tensions with France.

The European Union says it will not renew a fishing agreement with Senegal that has been criticized by many Senegalese.

The Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art, or Dak’Art, has opened in the Senegalese capital. The international arts festival, founded in 1989 by the government, has over the years become one of the most important platforms promoting African artists.

Chad’s presidency says unidentified assailants have killed at least 40 soldiers during an overnight attack on a military base in the country’s west.

Congo’s President announced a national commission will be set up next year to draft a new constitution for the central African country, raising concern among the opposition over possible altering of the presidential term limit.

An armed rebel group in Congo generates around $300,000 a month in revenue through its control of a mining area in the east of the country, the U.N.

A media freedom group says local journalists in the African Sahel are facing increased security risks as extremist attacks and military coups have shaken the region in recent years.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has met with Senegal's president as part of a trip through three West African nations aimed at tackling irregular migration to Spain’s Canary Islands.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez arrived in Gambia on Wednesday as part of a three-day tour of West Africa to tackle irregular migration.