Senegal GDP growth reaches 6.5 pct for first time in 12 years -IMF

DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegal's economic growth reached 6.5 percent in 2015 for the first time in more than a decade, the International Monetary Fund said late on Friday, buoyed by the agriculture sector and the government's two-year-old economic plan. Senegal is considered to be one of the most stable democracies in West Africa but its economic growth has lagged behind the continent as a whole for much of the last 10 years. The government launched a plan in early 2014 intended to spur GDP growth an