Diogué Island, Senegal – When Cherif Diatta was a child, he used to play football on a beach on Diogué, an island at the mouth of the Casamance River in southern Senegal.

Since Senegal gained its independence in 1960 after more than three centuries of French rule, Gorée Island, home to the House of Slaves, has become a distinct memorial to the slave trade. "It's ...

Item 1 of 6 Clothes hang to dry at Diogue Diola village which is threatened by the rising sea levels and coastal erosion in Diogue island, Senegal July 14, 2022. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra ...

An island created by the eruption of a mud volcano in the Caspian Sea is finally going the way of the dodo, based on satellite images of the structure.

An aerial drone photo taken on May 4, 2025 shows Ngor Island in Dakar, the capital of Senegal. The Ngor Island is a popular destination for water sports, recreational fishing, and birdwatching.

Dakar, Senegal — Gorée Island, off the coast of Dakar, is a somber reminder of the transatlantic slave trade. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it embodies both the duty to remember and ...

A green sea turtle is improving after being found stranded on a North Carolina beach with over 1 ½ pounds of barnacles and other organisms on its shell, seashore officials announced over the weekend.

Phase 1 is set to produce around 2.3 million tons of LNG per year and the project is expected to produce LNG for more than 20 years, enabling Mauritania and Senegal to become a global LNG hub, BP ...

Shell and Equinor have announced plans to merge their offshore oil and gas assets in the North Sea, forming a new company with 1,300 employees. The Aberdeen-based firm will be the largest oil and ...

Senegal loses 0.5 to two metres (yards) of coastline every year, the environment ministry says, pointing to rising sea levels, surface water runoff, sand extraction from beaches and coastal ...

Goree Island lies off the coast of Senegal, opposite Dakar. Ruled in succession by the Portuguese, Dutch, English and French, it was the largest slave-trading center on the African coast from the ...