In 2002 the MV Joola ferry from Dakar to Ziguinchor sank, since then a new ferry has replaced it and the water route to Ziguinchor has reopened.

The Four Communes of Saint-Louis, Dakar, Gorée, and Rufisque were the oldest colonial towns in French controlled west Africa.

* Alain Sinou, Comptoirs et villes coloniales du Sénégal: Saint-Louis, Gorée, Dakar, Karthala, 1999, 344 pages ISBN 2-86537-393-2

In the whole region from Dakar to Saint-Louis, and also west and southwest of Kaolack, Wolof is spoken by the vast majority of the people.

Thereafter, all black Africans of Dakar, Gorée, Saint-Louis, and Rufisque could vote to send a representative to the French National Assembly.

A governor-general was based first in Saint-Louis, then ( from 1902 ) in Dakar ( both in Senegal, the oldest French settlement ).

He went to primary and secondary school at the Lycée Faidherbe in Saint-Louis, and studied law at Dakar University and then at the Sorbonne, Paris.

As a part of the Trans-Sahelian Highway system, these are critical for traffic going between the Kayes Region of Mali and the coastal regions of Sénégal ( Dakar, Thiès, Saint-Louis ): the most densely populated parts of both these nations.

In 1916 Diagne convinced the French parliament to approve a law ( Loi " Blaise Diagne ") granting full citizenship to all residents of the so-called Four Communes in Senegal: Dakar, Gorée, Saint-Louis, and Rufisque.

Its founding in 1901 came after the extension of limited taxation of subjects, forced labor laws, and voting in the colonial possessions ( notably the communes of Dakar and Saint-Louis, Senegal ).

April 2010 ushers in the 50th Anniversary of the Independence of Senegal and some special concerts / gala evenings for Xalam in Dakar, Saint-Louis, South Africa and Zimbabwe.

She was born 1941 in Saint-Louis, Senegal where she grew up before moving to Dakar to finish her secondary schooling.

Dakar, the capital city of Senegal, is located at the westernmost tip of the country on the Cap-Vert peninsula.

The town of St. Louis became the capital of French West Africa ( Afrique occidentale française, or AOF ) before it was moved to Dakar in 1902.

Dakar became its capital in 1960 at the time of independence from France.

Dakar, as the former capital of French West Africa, is also home to banks and other institutions which serve all of Francophone West Africa, and is a hub for shipping and transport in the region.

Dakar is the capital and largest city of Senegal.

Dakar was the capital of the short-lived Mali Federation from 1959 to 1960, after which it became the capital of Senegal.

Increased mobility, and especially the growth of the capital Dakar, created the need for a common language: today, an additional 40 percent of the population speak Wolof as a second or acquired language.

Dakar, the capital of Senegal, is located near the southern tip.

Their political and spiritual capital is at layenne, situated in the Yoff neighborhood of northern Dakar.

Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport () is an international airport serving Dakar, the capital of Senegal.

As the capital of Casamance, Ziguinchor has been at the center of the three decade long conflict with Dakar, that has flared into open civil war on more than one occasion.

Nearly three months afterwards, on 23 September 1940, the Vichy air force saw action again when the British tried to take Dakar, the capital of Senegal, after a failed attempt ( as at Mers-el-Kébir ) to persuade the French to join the Allied cause against the Axis.

In 1857, the French seized the inland region between these two from the Lebu Republic, and rechristened their capital Ndakarou as the new colonial city of Dakar.

Major OCHA country offices are located in Afghanistan, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Ivory Coast, Palestinian territories, Sri Lanka, Sudan ( including a sub-office in Southern Sudan's capital Juba ), Uganda, and Zimbabwe, while regional offices are located in Panama City, Dakar, Cairo, Johannesburg, and Bangkok.

Tambacounda is the largest city in eastern Senegal, southeast of Dakar, and is the Regional capital of the province of the same name.

Along with the neighboring town of Mbacké ( founded by Aamadu Bàmba's great-grandfather in 1796 ), the Mouride conurbation is Senegal's second largest urban area, after the capital region of Dakar.

Dakar is the federal capital.

Rosso occupies a strategic position at the international ferry-crossing on the main road between Nouakchott and the Senegalese capital of Dakar.

In 1891, Rivières du Sud was placed under the colonial lieutenant governor at Dakar, who had authority over the French coastal regions east to Porto-Novo ( modern Benin ).

In 1895, French Guinea was made a dependent colony, and its Governor then became a Lieutenant Governor to a Governor-General in Dakar.

French Guinea, along with Senegal, Dahomey, Cote-d ' Ivoire and Upper Senegal and Niger each were ruled by a lieutenant governor, under the Governor General in Dakar.

Under the French, the country formed the Territory of Guinea within French West Africa, administered by a governor general resident in Dakar.

After the Attack on Mers-el-Kébir in 1940, where the British fleet destroyed a large part of the French navy, still under command of Vichy France, that killed about 1, 100 sailors, there was nationwide indignation and a feeling of distrust in the French forces, leading to the events of the Battle of Dakar.

* The German senior level ( naval and national ) leadership requested the Vichy French to send warships from Dakar and / or Côte d ' Ivoire to pick up the survivors.

The Vichy French, in response to Berlin's request, sent the cruiser from Dakar, and two sloops, the fast Annamite and the slower, from Conakry, French Guinea, and Cotonou, Dahomey, respectively.

The first West African French settlement, Saint Louis, was founded in the mid-seventeenth century in Senegal, while at about the same time the Dutch ceded to the French a settlement at Ile de Gorée off Dakar.

In 1857 the French established a military post at Ndakaaru ( which they called " Dakar ") and annexed the Lebou Republic, though its institutions continued to function nominally.

Gorée, including Dakar, was recognised as a French commune in 1872.

In its colonial heyday Dakar was one of the major cities of the French Empire, comparable to Hanoi or Beirut.

The commune of Dakar was created by the French colonial administration on June 17, 1887 by detaching it from the commune of Gorée.

* Ségolène Royal, French politician born in Dakar

On 20 June 1940 Raeder sent a memo to Hitler calling for Germany to take over the entire French fleet and the French bases on the Atlantic coast and in Dakar.

The first major star of French hip hop was MC Solaar, born Claude M ' Barali in Dakar, Senegal.

Dakar was built as the administrative trade center when the whole of Senegal was a French territory.