DAKAR, Senegal -- The Senegalese military says 13 people have been killed by armed gunmen in the country's southern Casamance region.The bloodshed confirmed late Saturday by Col. Abdoul Ndiaye was ...

Senegal's government has signed a new agreement with separatist rebels to bring peace in its southern region, where an armed rebellion has been raging for over 40 years over calls for independence.

ZIGUINCHOR, Senegal – A Senegalese official says a woman and her son were killed by a landmine Saturday in the southern Casamance region near the Gambian border. Cheikh Tidiane Dieng, governor ...

01/09/2023 January 9, 2023. Casamance, a region with a culture distinct from the rest of Senegal, is the site of Africa's longest-running separatist revolt. But some locals want to move on.

DAKAR, Senegal — A military official says that six Senegalese soldiers have been killed and three wounded in an attack near the border of Senegal and Guinea-Bissau. Col. Ousmane Sar says the ...

An on-off low-level rebellion in Senegal's Casamance region, now entering its fourth decade, is one of Africa's longest-running insurgencies.

But in the Casamance region of Senegal, health officials still have a long way to go if they are to meet pan-African expectations. In a hospital in Ziguinchor, ...

Senegal's President Macky Sall pledged on Thursday to build a $500 million railway linking the capital, Dakar, to the southern Casamance region, cut off for years by insecurity and underinvestment.

ZIGUINCHOR, Senegal (AP) — Residents of Senegal's Casamance region are calling on the government to step up efforts to find attackers who killed at least 14 people who had been gathering wood.

DAKAR, Senegal – The Senegalese military says 13 people have been killed by armed gunmen in the country's southern Casamance region. The bloodshed confirmed late Saturday by Col. Abdoul Ndiaye ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A new peace deal between Senegal and a separatist rebel group in the country’s southern region has been touted by the government as a key step in ending one of Africa’s ...

Six Soldiers Killed In Senegal's Casamance Region. October 3, 2009 / 11:23 AM EDT / AP ...