Senegal

It's the disappearance of a legend of Senegalese music: singer and lyricist Thione Seck, 66 years old. He started his career at the age of 17 with the Dakar Star Band and continued with the mythical orchestra Baobab, the Senegalese cult group in the 1970s. Thione Seck was one of the singers in the famous "mbalax" style. Many artists and big names in the music scene mourn a brother like his countryman singer Wasis Diop, who remembers a man deeply attached to his country. .

Figure of the Senegalese artistic scene, the painter Ndoye Douts invites to a unique dive in the popular districts of Dakar. It is there, from Yoff to Gueule-Tapée, that he draws his inspiration since leaving art in 1999. "Entre terre et mer", his new exhibition at the Art-Z Gallery in Paris, until March 27, testifies to abundant, colorful, playful work.…

In Africa, not everyone is happy with the election of South African Patrice Motsepe as president of the African Football Confederation (CAF). Last Friday, during a CAF general meeting in Rabat, the South African billionaire benefited from the withdrawal of three West African candidates in his favor. But for Senegalese Abdoulaye Thiam, editor-in-chief of the "Sud Quotidien" and chairman of the Senegalese sports press association, politics…

Senegalese singer Thjonen Seck died Sunday, March 14, of a short illness. Information confirmed by his family. Singer and lyricist Thione Seck, one of the princes of Senegalese music for forty years, died on Sunday 14 March at the age of 66 in Dakar, we learned that from his lawyer, Ousmane Seye. Former singer of the legendary…

The opposition had suspended its demonstrations, so the day was calm Saturday in Dakar, although the deployment of defense and security forces is still clearly visible in strategic places in the city. With our special correspondent in Dakar, Carine FrankFollowing a meeting with envoys to the Caliph General of Mourides, one of…

After several days of demonstrations marked by violence that left between 5 and 11 dead, and while peaceful demonstrations are scheduled for today, March 13, Wathi shares some lessons to be learned from this rise in fever in Senegal. First lesson: forget the light labels. .

The Movement for the Defense of Democracy has decided to suspend its call for peaceful demonstration following an exchange with the envoy of the Caliph General of the Murid Brotherhood. In a press release, M2D states that it has "accepted the request for postponement" formulated by the influential religious leader Serigne Mountakha Mbacké. "In return", M2D states that he has sent the caliph a memorandum with 10 demands, in particular "immediate and unconditional release of imprisoned political prisoners", "the end of the…

In Senegal, an organized day of mourning and prayer was organized on Friday, March 12, in memory of the victims of the recent protests. Problems that have left 10 dead, government sources, at least 11 according to the protest movement. The Movement for the Defense of Democracy (M2D), which brings together political parties and civil society organizations, especially demands the release of those arrested…

The head of state had declared a day of national mourning on Thursday in tribute to the victims of the demonstrations: 10 died according to a government source, 11 according to the Movement for the Defense of Democracy (M2D). The movement calls for a day of prayer this Friday. Meeting relatives of a young high school student killed during these demonstrations.…

It is a day of mourning this Friday in Senegal at the urging of the opposition collective M2D, the movement for the defense of democracy, in memory of the victims of last week's clashes between police and protesters, which left at least five dead. It all started with the arrest of opponent Ousmane Sonko, accused of the alleged rape of a young Senegalese woman. Aljoner Tine heads the West African think tank Africajom Center. He's one of the people President Macky Sall has heard in recent days. Online from Dakar he gives…