Senegal baskets are very popular on the international market but the women who make them aren't receiving the profit. Now ...

GOUDIRY, Senegal (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Slumped on a bench in a village in southeast Senegal - which is lifeless but for the occasional bleating of goats and splutter of old motorcycles - ...

An ageing former leper waits to be seen by a nurse in Mballing, renamed by the authorities as a village of social rehabilitation in Senegal, on January 20, 2014 The Petite Cote, the sun-drenched heart ...

On the southern border of Senegal lies a small village called Keur Niangane. The roughly 1,200 residents of this village reside in a desert zone, hours away from the capital of Dakar. This village is ...

The Senegalese village of Bangadj gets 100 cubic meters of water a day for 1,400 residents thanks to its solar-powered water pump, which was installed in 1995. Bangadj lies outside the city of Thies, ...

Villages in the country's South are switching to solar to light up homes and charges cell phones. For the people in southern Senegal, batteries and diesel generators are a primary source of ...

FASS BOYE, Senegal (Reuters) - The brightly painted boats in the Senegalese fishing village of Fass Boye lay idle on Friday. The sound of wailing drifted from households out to the empty streets.

"It takes at least two people to circumcise a girl, one to hold her legs and the other her arms," said Ourey Sall, who for years performed the procedure. "Afterwards, we apply a mixture of goat ...

Most fail. Many die. Senegal is among the top 10 countries of origin for migrants arriving in Italy this year, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says, along with countries like ...

Local activists and would-be migrants Moussa Kebe (L) and Ousmane Thiam (R) pose for a photo on a farm in Goudiry, Senegal, September 5, 2016. REUTERS/Mikal McAllister By Kieran Guilbert GOUDIRY, ...