Senegalese authorities have officially abandoned Akon’s ambitious $6 billion smart city project. The government has reclaimed ...

Akon’s $6 billion plan for a real-life Wakanda on Senegal’s Atlantic Coast “no longer exists,” said Serigne Mamadou Mboup, ...

Akon failed to deliver on his dream of a real-life Wakanda in the debt-stricken country. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

Find out how Serigne Mbaye is shaping the future and defining the next generation of leadership. Find out why Serigne Mbaye is on this year’s TIME100 Next list.

Senegal President Macky Sall on Sunday pardoned one of his chief political rivals, the charismatic former mayor of Dakar, Khalifa Sall, who was jailed in 2018 on corruption charges.

Serigne Fallou Dieng laments that some marabouts, and the will of their followers, can be bought by politicians wishing to stay in power. Will of people Dieng says that God and God alone is eternal.

Former prime minister Idrissa Seck, who served under ex-president Abdoulaye Wade between 2002 and 2004, is running in a fourth consecutive presidential race. The 64-year-old former Sall opponent ...

President Macky Sall previously postponed the election without setting a date. On Wednesday, he also fired the prime minister, his party’s candidate for president. By Elian Peltier Reporting ...