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Senegalese basketball legend Mame Maty Mbengue lights a torch from the cauldron during a ceremony ahead of the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games, in Dakar, Senegal, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)

Olympic flame arrives in Senegal for the first Olympic event to be held in Africa

By Mark Banchereau - Associated Press

Journalists film driver Carlos Sainz, center, and co-driver Lucas Cruz at the end of the ninth stage of the Dakar Rally between Wadi Ad Dawasir and Bisha, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, Jan.13, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Roma leads Dakar Rally for first time since 2014 after navigation errors shake up race

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Driver Saood Variawa and co-driver Francois Cazalet compete during the eighth stage of the Dakar Rally with a start and finish at Wadi Ad Dawasir, Saudi Arabia, Monday, Jan.12, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Variawa’s incredible comeback snatches stage in Dakar Rally and Benavides rides to another win

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Filly Mangassa, left, and Mamadou Camara, who are part of a growing trend of young Africans moving to rural areas for better work opportunities, throw peanut plants on a pile on a farm in Tambacounda, Senegal, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Banchereau)

Young Africans find hope in farming as urban life becomes too expensive

By Mark Banchereau - Associated Press

FILE - People displaced by the fighting with M23 rebels make their way to the center of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)

U.N. experts say Rwanda supported rebels in Congo and smuggled minerals at ‘unprecedented levels’

By Monika Pronczuk - Associated Press

FILE - A woman votes in a referendum on whether to adopt a new constitution, in Libreville, Gabon, on Nov. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Betines Makosso, File)

Gabon holding its first presidential election since the 2023 military coup

By Mark Banchereau - Associated Press

TikTok star Khaby Lame poses for a photograph after being named UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Friday, Jan. 31, 2025 in Dakar, Senegal. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)

World’s most popular TikTok personality Khaby Lame joins UNICEF as goodwill ambassador

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Biram Senghor, whose father was killed in 1944, holds a phone with a photo of his father, in Rufisque, Senegal, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)

Senegal demands answers as the West African country commemorates a French colonial massacre

By Mark Banchereau - Associated Press

People line up to cast their ballot for legislative elections in Dakar, Senegal, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)

Senegal votes in election that will decide if president can carry out the reforms he promised

By Mark Banchereau - Associated Press

Senegalese women march through the Medina neighborhood in Dakar, Senegal during the fourth Women's March for Climate Saturday, Nov, 2, 2024.(AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)

Senegalese women take aim at polluting countries in march for climate justice

By Annie Risemberg - Associated Press

Maodo Faye, radio presenter at Sud FM, presents the afternoon Wolof program from the Sud FM studio in Dakar, Senegal, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Annie Risemberg)

In Senegal, the bastion of the region’s Francophonie, French is giving way to local languages

By Monika Pronczuk - Associated Press

Aminata "Myamy TheAyGirl" Thiam, 31years - Old, left, instructs a student 30 years old Julia Sall, at a beat making class for women in Dakar, Senegal, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. Aminata Thiam is Senegal's first female beatmaker. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)

In Senegal’s thriving hip-hop scene, this beatmaker insists women have a seat at the table

By Annie Risemberg - Associated Press

People rest next to a fountain adorning the Senegalese flag at Place de l'Indépendance, Wednesday, March 20, 2024, ahead of the upcoming presidential elections in Dakar, Senegal. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Senegal votes in a tightly contested presidential race after months of unrest

By Jessica Donati and Babacar Dione and Jack Thompson - Associated Press

Presidential candidate Anta Babacar Ngom greets supporters during her electoral campaign caravan in Dakar, Senegal, Monday, March 11, 2024. Senegal’s only female presidential candidate may stand no chance of winning but activists say her presence alone is helping to advance a decades long campaign to achieve equality in the West African nation. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)

Senegal votes Sunday in a presidential election that has fired up political tensions

By Jessica Donati - Associated Press

Demonstrators protest President Macky Sall's decision to postpone the Feb. 25 vote, citing an electoral dispute between the parliament and the judiciary regarding some candidacies in Dakar, Senegal, Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. The Senegalese government has announced March 24, 2024 as the new date for the country’s delayed presidential election. (AP Photo/Stefan Kleinowitz, File)

Senegal’s presidential candidates kick off campaigns after violent protests over a delay of the vote

Associated Press

Gueva Ba sells used cell phones in Dakar's Colobane market Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. Ba, who tried to reach Europe via Morocco eleven times, flew legally to Nicaragua and made the rest of the journey illegally by land to Mexico's northern border, before being repatriated from the United States to Senegal in September 2023. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)

In Senegal’s capital, Nicaragua is a hot ticket among travel agents as migrants try to reach U.S.

By Baba Ahmed - Associated Press

In a photo provided by Can-Am Off-Road, Sara Price drives during Stage 10 of the Dakar Rally on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024, near Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia. (Maciej Niechwiadowicz/Can-Am Off-Road via AP)

Off-road racer Sara Price celebrates becoming first American woman to win stage in Dakar Rally

By Dan Gelston - Associated Press

Senegal police stands in front of the Supreme Court in Dakar, Senegal, Friday, Nov. 17, 2023, as the court is due to rule on whether opposition leader and presidential hopeful Ousmane Sonko can take part in the upcoming February election despite being struck from the country's voter rolls after his conviction on charges of corrupting youth earlier this year. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)

Senegal opposition party sponsoring new candidate Faye after court blocks jailed leader Sonko’s bid

By Babacar Dione - Associated Press

Arrested members of the Wazalendo sect are sat and lined up in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. More than 40 people died and dozens were injured in clashes in the Congolese city of Goma between protesters from the Wazalendo religious sect and the armed forces, national authorities said. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

The Congolese military is accused of a deadly crackdown on a religious sect, killing at least 43

By Zane Irwin - Associated Press

Seynabou Diop looks on as she holds her prayer beads after talking about her son, Khadim Ba, 21, who died during the protests earlier this month in Dakar, Senegal, Thursday, June 15, 2023. "If I had known (he was going to protest), Khadim would never have taken part," said Diop. "I want (the government) to meet the expectations of young people, the government has an obligation to help (them)," she said. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Protesters in Senegal accuse police of using armed civilians to quell unrest

By Sam Mednick - Associated Press