Senegalese police say they have arrested 14 people and broken up a paedophile gang operating between the country and France.
Those arrested, who are all Senegalese, were part of a "transnational" criminal group that has been in operation since 2017, according to a police statement.
It said the group was accused of "organised paedophilia, pimping, rape of minors under 15, sodomy, and intentional transmission of HIV/Aids". They allegedly repeatedly forced boys to have "unprotected sex" with men who were mostly HIV-positive and filmed it.
Four of the accused are said to have been acting "on the instructions" of a Frenchman arrested in France in April 2025 "in exchange for money transfers".
The 14 accused were brought before a judge on Friday following searches in several neighbourhoods in Dakar, and the city of Kaolack, 200km (124 miles) south-east of the capital.
