Do a pair of Yamaha XT500s still have what it takes, 40-plus years later?

Once an emblematic landmark of traditional west African architecture, Dakar's fondly remembered Sandaga market can now only be marvelled at through old photographs. Both Sandaga and Le Dantec are set ...

Sandaga is just one of the many historic buildings in Senegal's ever-expanding capital ... part of Dakar's very identity, architect Carole Diop told a small tour group in the city.

CEM OZDEL / GETTY IMAGES In Senegal's capital Dakar the following day ... Here, Ethiopians living in the US city of Washington DC relish the festivities. Days earlier in the South African town ...

By Ruth Maclean and Elian Peltier Reporting from Dakar, Senegal. Rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo have surrounded the eastern city of Goma ... a provincial capital with more than ...

Goma, Congo (AP) — Rwandan-backed rebels gained ground in eastern Congo on Wednesday despite the unilateral ceasefire they ...

DAKAR, Senegal — Bodies are lying on the streets ... who marched into eastern Congo’s strategic city early Monday, inspiring fear and cheers among residents. But more than 2 million of ...

but in Dakar. In the Plateau district, if street names are anything to go by, history has stood still. Sixty-five years after the independence of Senegal, the ... Casamance's main city, before ...

taking control of a city 60 miles (96 kilometers) from the provincial capital of Bukavu, civil society officials and residents told The Associated Press. The M23 rebels on Monday announced the ...

The Congolese government confirmed the presence of M23 rebels in Goma, 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) east of capital Kinshasa, ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Residents in eastern Congo’s largest city, Goma, were fleeing on Monday after Rwanda-backed rebels claimed to have captured the regional hub from Congolese forces as fighting ...