World Cup fans can be a competitive bunch, but there was no animosity on display between a group from Japan and a man from Senegal after their teams faced off in a World Cup match. Senegal and Japan ...

In 2005, heavy rains flooded neighborhoods around Dakar, Senegal, forcing tens of thousands of people out of their homes. It was the worst downpour in decades and Babacar Niang, a rapper also known as ...

Once again, the beautiful boulevards of Dakar have erupted in rapturous dancing and sonorous singing, the kind of enchanting soul-stirring music for which Senegalese musical prodigies are globally ...

DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegalese world music star Youssou N'dour declared on Saturday he would cancel concert dates to enter politics from Jan. 2 next year, a month before a tense presidential election in ...

Senegal's Youssou N'Dour has taken his music to audiences around the world but says his decision to stop singing and run for president was prompted by a nagging sound straight from the streets of his ...