TOBOR, Senegal (AFP) – Crabs scuttle among mangrove roots in a dense riverbank forest in southern Senegal, where a major reforestation project is reviving wildlife and boosting the west African ...

A wildlife park in Senegal, where visitors in special caged vehicles can get very close to lions, offers a different experience. The wildlife park Ranch de Bandia, located around 70 kilometers (over ...

Vanessa Palumbo works in the higher foreign service for the Foreign Office and has lived in Berlin, Lyon, and Tokyo. For over ...

With very few exceptions, Africa’s Sahel—a strip of Africa that lies just south of the Sahara Desert—is a barren, devastated place populated largely by semi-nomadic Fulani herdsmen who keep watch over ...

Niokolo Koba Park in Senegal is an important world heritage site, which started out as a hunting reserve during the colonial era in 1926. However, over time, attitudes towards hunting wild animals has ...

Lying in hospital with bloodied bandages over the deep gashes in his legs, Senegalese fisherman Ali Fall recalls the moment a hippopotamus tried to kill him as he hauled in nets in a local river. "I ...

The House of Slaves museum and memorial site on Goree Island off the coast of Dakar, Senegal. The building was the largest slave-trade center during the transatlantic slave trade and now serves as a ...