DAKAR, SENEGAL - JANUARY 14: Senegalese President Macky Sall (2nd L) and his wife Marieme Faye Sall (3rd L) and President of the African Development Bank Akinwumi Adesina (R) attend opening ceremony ...

After five years' work and at a cost of more than a billion dollars, Senegal's capital city next Monday will finally welcome a new commuter railway line. Politicians are lining up to extol the ...

The talks with the ministry of infrastructure are aimed at agreeing a public-private partnership, Cissé says from Dakar. Senegal wants to repair and extend the dilapidated railway line from Dakar to ...

Senegal's President Macky Sall delivers a speech during the Franco-African Forum at the Bercy Finance Ministry in Paris, February 6, 2015. REUTERS/Ian Langsdon/Pool ZIGUINCHOR, Senegal (Reuters) - ...

Senegal’s Ministry of Land and Rail Transport is lobbying the governments of Senegal and Mali to honor their debts to Transrail S.A., the Dakar-based rail operator that runs a route between Dakar and ...

Politicians are lining up to extol the benefits of slashing journey times and decongesting Dakar once the gleaming TER regional express trains start to roll. But thousands of residents claim they have ...

ZIGUINCHOR, Senegal (Reuters) - Senegal's President Macky Sall pledged on Thursday to build a $500 million railway linking the capital, Dakar, to the southern Casamance region, cut off for years by ...

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After five years’ work and at a cost of more than a billion dollars, Senegal’s capital city next Monday will finally welcome a new commuter railway line. Politicians are lining up to extol the ...

Let the train take the strain: Driver Momar Diop Sidibe in one of Dakar's brand-new commuter locomotives - Copyright AFP Behrouz MEHRI Let the train take the strain ...