Senegal hosts first Olympic event on African continent

Home Africa To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Cover image: © France 24 01:30 Issued on: 01/11/2026 - 10:58Modified: 01/11/2026 - 11:01 Youth Olympics make history with first African Games in over 130 years, opened by Senegal’s president in Dakar. 136 Senegalese athletes are competing, supported by 6,000 local volunteers. Keywords for this article Video content Video Africa Video content Video Europe Video content Video Africa Video content Video Africa Video content Video Africa Video content Video Africa Video content Video Africa Video content Video Africa Video content Video Africa