[The Conversation Africa] Born to a French mother and a Senegalese father, David Diop has won the prestigious annual International Booker prize for translated fiction. He shares the prize with his translator Anna Moschovakis for the novel, At Night A...

[Cameroon Tribune] The team is currently carrying out final adjustments in a training camp which opened on Sunday May 30, 2021 in Thiès.

[Iranti] Africa will not be free until all its people are free and LGBTI persons are allowed to live their lives without fear, says South African-based advocacy organisation Iranti.

[Nation] Mohab Yasser Abdallatif, the soon to be graduate of the NBA Academy in Dakar, helped his Zamalek team outclass Senegal's AS Douanes 86-62 at Kigali Arena on Sunday in the ongoing Basketball African League (BAL).

[Greenpeace] After German shipping giant Hapag-Lloyd was caught in the act of fraud by Senegalese customs, it has since been spotted docked in neighbouring Mauritania. Greenpeace fears that the vessel might try to dump its shipment of plastic waste t...

[CAF] The Beach Soccer Africa Cup of Nations, Senegal 2021 will take place from 23 to 29 May 2021 in the city of Saly, Senegal.

[The Conversation Africa] Senegal has a robust history of women's activism against sexual violence, which led to landmark legislation making rape a criminal offence last year. However, survivors of alleged sexual assault rarely denounce men by name.

[RFI] A week ago, the sentencing of two transgender women in Cameroon to five years in prison for "attempted homosexuality" highlighted the ongoing difficulties sexual minorities and transgender people face on the African continent. RFI spoke to two ...

[Monitor] Uganda's national beach soccer team - the Sand Cranes - will be the underdogs at this month's Africa Cup of Nations finals in Senegal starting next week.

[Nation] Senegal's AS Douanes proved too strong for Algerian side Groupement Sportif des Pétroliers (GSP) beating them 94-67 in day two of the ongoing Basketball Africa league (BAL) in Kigali, Rwanda Monday.

[Foroyaa] The United Democratic Party views with alarm and despair the frequent reports of interceptions and seizures of large quantities of drugs and narcotic substances in and around the Gambia. The recent spike in number of serious crimes such as ...

[African Arguments] Africa's ministers of finance and economic development convened in Algiers on 8 May 2001 for their annual meeting. Their conference is usually unremarkable: this was a rare occasion in which it was momentous. In his memoir Know th...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- 18 athletes from the national judo team will travel to Dakar next week to take part in the Tokyo Olympic Games Qualifying Tournament said Technical Director of the Tunisian Judo Federation (French: FTJ) Abderra...

[This Day] A former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and immediate past Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has been turbaned as the leader of Tijaniyya Islamic sect in Nigeria.

[CAF] The countdown to the Beach Soccer Africa Cup of Nations, Senegal 2021 kicked off on Friday afternoon following the launch of the competition in Thiès, Senegal.

[African Arguments] Mamadou Dramé with contributions from Alcinda Honwana. Translated by Stephanie Kitchen.*