Local authorities say a boat carrying nearly a hundred migrants has run aground in Dakar, Senegal. The migrants were likely ...

Senegalese authorities intercepted 112 migrants on a fishing boat off Dakar's coast en route to Europe. The vessel lacked an ...

DAKAR (Reuters) -Senegalese authorities intercepted 112 migrants aboard a long wooden fishing boat known as a pirogue off the ...

Mauritania's security forces have been systematically abusing migrants from other African countries, a report by Human Rights ...

Similar to a canoe, the pirogue was first used by Native Americans in the swamps and marshes of Louisiana, before it was refined by French explorers, hunters and settlers. The pirogue was dug out of a ...

The Bamana pirogue, or dug-out, symbolizes a bridge and celestial conveyance for man and spirit. Ganay explores these realms, relating them to the actual construction of the pirogue and to the graphic ...