FASS BOYE, Senegal (Reuters) - The brightly painted boats in the Senegalese fishing village of Fass Boye lay idle on Friday. The sound of wailing drifted from households out to the empty streets.

The Senegalese village of Bangadj gets 100 cubic meters of water a day for 1,400 residents thanks to its solar-powered water pump, which was installed in 1995. Bangadj lies outside the city of Thies, ...

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 - ...

Jinko ESS, a subsidiary of Jinko Solar Co., Ltd., has announced a major milestone in the West African market to successfully secure 15MWh of SunGiga liquid-cooled energy storage systems to Senegal.

UPERT, Gambia (Reuters) - Stray bullets whistled past Senegalese villager Modou Badjie and his family as they ran through a cashew forest in the middle of the night to reach neighbouring Gambia.

Under the shade of a large mango tree in her sandy courtyard in a village in northwest Senegal, Khady Sene rhythmically ...

The Petite Cote, the sun-drenched heart of Senegal's tourist industry, boasts mile-upon-mile of shimmering Atlantic coastline shaded by towering cocoa palms -- and the country's largest former leper ...

Villages in the country's South are switching to solar to light up homes and charges cell phones. For the people in southern Senegal, batteries and diesel generators are a primary source of ...

"It takes at least two people to circumcise a girl, one to hold her legs and the other her arms," said Ourey Sall, who for years performed the procedure. "Afterwards, we apply a mixture of goat ...