The police sealed off a main square in the capital, Dakar, on Friday and fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators protesting President Abdoulaye Wade's bid to seek a third term in elections this month. The police fought running battles with protesters, who hurled stones, burned trash and set up barricades along avenues in the city center, forcing...
The basketball court, DeSagana Diop explains, is in Parcelles Assainies, the neighborhood in which he grew up in Dakar and the unlikely starting point for a nine-year N.B.A. career. Diop's parents, he says, still live in the neighborhood. The space was just dirt and trash before Diop dedicated the court last week. ''Before we did it, it was...
On the tarmac of Osvaldo Vieira, the international airport of the West African coastal country of Guinea-Bissau, sits a once-elegant Gulfstream jet, which in the normal course of events would have no reason to land in a country with no business opportunities and virtually no economy. In recent years, however, Guinea-Bissau has emerged as a nodal...
Byen er endemål for Paris-Dakar rallyet.