DAKAR, Senegal – Police in a city outside Senegal's capital have arrested four young men accused of carrying out attacks in a bid to rid their neighborhood of gay people. Mamadou Faye, a police ...

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 - ...

DAKAR, Senegal — Nine men, including a prominent activist, have been convicted of homosexual acts and sentenced to eight years in prison, their lawyer and a gay rights group said Thursday, Jan. 8.

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A judge in Senegal sentenced two men to six months’ jail in a rare conviction of a gay couple on criminal charges. The two were arrested after neighbors alerted police to their ...

The school focuses on teaching men how to support women and challenge traditional gender norms. In Senegal, men who once upheld patriarchal norms are now promoting gender equality thanks to the ...

DAKAR, Senegal — A Senegalese activist has called for the release of seven men arrested in July and sentenced to six months in prison for homosexual acts. Djamil Bangoura, president of gay rights ...

In the aftermath of Senegal’s dramatic Africa Cup of Nations victory on Sunday night, it was easy to think back to previous international tournaments. You thought of previous Africa Cup of Nations ...

KOTHIARY, Senegal—Less than a month after mourning a neighbor killed on the 3,000-mile migrant trail to Europe, Ibrahima Ba set off on the same treacherous road. The 27-year-old was supposed to build ...

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, ...

DAKAR, Senegal — A judge in Senegal sentenced two men to six months’ jail in a rare conviction of a gay couple on criminal charges. The two were arrested after neighbors alerted police to their home ...