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 ...

UPERT, Gambia (Reuters) - Stray bullets whistled past Senegalese villager Modou Badjie and his family as they ran through a cashew forest in the middle of the night to reach neighbouring Gambia.

Prayer at the village mosque in Fass Boye, where around 100 people set to sea hoping to reach Europe a month ago - Copyright AFP Handout Prayer at the village mosque ...

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.

BANJUL, Gambia, August 23 (UNHCR) - More than 4,500 people have fled to Gambia from southern Senegal in the past few days amid rising tension in the country's volatile Casamance region. The UN refugee ...

Pall Corp., of Port Washington, has set up a pilot water-filtration project to target the chronic public health problem of fluorosis, or fluoride overdose, in remote villages in the nation of Senegal.