Cape Verde has signed treaties with Senegal and Mauritania delimiting the specific boundaries.

The species has also been found creating sharpened sticks to spear Senegal bushbabies out of small holes in trees.

* 1961 – Macky Sall, Senegalese politician who has been President of Senegal

In the late 20th century, a 25-string model of the kora was developed, though it has been adopted by only a few players, primarily in the region of Casamance, in southern Senegal.

Mali has only one railroad, including 729 kilometers in Mali, which runs from the port of Koulikoro via Bamako to the border with Senegal and continues on to Dakar.

The Bamako-Dakar line, which has been described as dilapidated, is owned by a joint company established by Mali and Senegal in 1995, with the eventual goal of privatization.

Senegal covers a land area of almost, and has an estimated population of about 13 million.

* The dig the Faleme located in the south-east of Senegal, has uncovered a Neolithic Falemian tools industry that produced polished materials as diverse as sandstone, hematite, shale, quartz, and flint.

Senegal has a long history of participating in international peacekeeping.

Senegal is one of only a handful of countries to have a near-enclave within its borders — the small nation of The Gambia in the interior, which has a 740 km border with Senegal.

In total, Senegal has 2 640 km of land borders, and 531 km of coastline and shoreline.

Senegal has a number of vegetation zones: sahel, Sahel-Soudan, Sudan_ ( region ), Soudan-Guinea, tropical rainforest, and Guinean mangroves.

Senegal is one of the few African states that has never experienced a coup d ' état or exceptionally harsh authoritarianism.

Senegal has a reputation for transparency in government operations.

Today Senegal has a democratic political culture, being part of one of the most successful democratic transitions in Africa.

President Wade has advanced a liberal agenda for Senegal, including privatizations and other market-opening measures.

Senegal has well-developed though costly port facilities, a major international airport serving 23 international airlines, and direct and expanding telecommunications links with major world centers.

Senegal has an excellent telecommunications infrastructure, which is digitized.

Senegal has participated in many international and regional peacekeeping missions.

Senegal has long supported functional integration among French-speaking West African states through the West African Economic and Monetary Union.

Senegal has a high profile in many international organizations and was a member of the UN Security Council in 1988-89.

As well as most of the African countries, Iran has close and friendly ties with Senegal as a major and powerful African country which is also an important Islamic country and one of the active OIC members.

The growing split between blacks and Maures in Mauritania has, however, affected ties with Senegal, which sees itself as championing the rights of Mauritania's black minority.

In January 1959, Senegal and the French Sudan merged to form the Mali Federation, which became fully independent on 20 June 1960, as a result of the independence and the transfer of power agreement signed with France on 4 April 1960.

Weygand acquired a reputation as an opponent of collaboration when he protested, in Vichy, against the Protocols of Paris of 28 May 1941 signed by Admiral Darlan, agreements which granted bases to the Axis in Aleppo ( Syria ), Bizerte ( Tunisia ), and Dakar ( Senegal ) and envisaged an extensive military collaboration with Axis forces in the event of Allied countermeasures.

The Convention which created the Agency for Cultural and Technical Co-operation ( Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique ) was signed on March 20, 1970 by the representatives of the 21 states and governments under the influence of African Heads of State, Léopold Sédar Senghor of Senegal, Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia, Hamani Diori of Niger and Prince Norodom Sihanouk.

The Treaty of Versailles ( 1783 ) ( signed along with the Treaty of Paris that officially ended the American Revolution ) created the current Francophone-Anglophone balance in the region: Saint Louis, l ’ île de Gorée, and the Senegal River region were restored to France and the Gambia was left to the British.

Another ceasefire was signed in 1997, but about 500 people were reported dead in battles up until March 2001, when Senghor and Abdoulaye Wade, the President of Senegal, agreed to a peace deal.

However, only two Africa-born artists, one black and one white, were signed to perform at the main concerts — respectively Youssou N ' Dour ( Senegal ) and Dave Matthews ( South Africa ), the leader of Dave Matthews Band.

* The Confederation of Senegambia agreement signed at Dakar, Senegal, effective February 1982, with Gambia's President as the Senegambian Vice-President, and a legislature that had two-thirds of the seats for Senegalese deputies.

* 1957 – The African Convention is founded in Dakar, Senegal.

The Convention of Democrats and Patriots ( Convention des Démocrates et des Patriotes, CDP / Garab-gi ) was a political party in Senegal that was led by Iba Der Thiam.

Dialects of Manding are generally considered ( among native speakers ) to be mutually intelligible – dependent on exposure or familiarity with dialects between speakers – and spoken by approximately 20 million people in the countries Burkina Faso, Senegal, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Liberia, Côte d ' Ivoire and The Gambia.

The WHO estimated that an additional 10 – 20 babies die per 1, 000 deliveries as a result of FGM ; the estimate was based on a 2006 study conducted on 28, 393 women attending delivery wards at 28 obstetric centers in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and Sudan.

Portugal's main rival was the French, their colonial neighbours along the coast on both sides-in Senegal and in the region which became French Guinea.

The French Benedictine monks of the Keur Moussa Abbey ( Senegal ), who possibly were the first to introduce guitar machine heads instead of leather rings in the late seventies, conceived a method based on scores to teach the instrument.

Mali borders Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and Côte d ' Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west.

Senegal withdrew from the federation in August 1960, which allowed the Sudanese Republic to become the independent Republic of Mali on 22 September 1960.

From its capital in Kumbi Saleh on the edge of the desert, the empire expanded throughout southeastern Mauritania, southwestern Mali, and northern Senegal.

Following the withdrawal of Senegal from the federation in August 1960, the former Sudanese Republic became the Republic of Mali on 22 September 1960, with Modibo Keïta as president.

Mali is dependent on fuel imports trucked overland from Senegal and Côte d ' Ivoire.

This cooperation somewhat lessened Mali's dependence on Senegal and Côte d ' Ivoire.

The history of French colonial policy in Mauritania is closely tied to that of the other French possessions in West Africa, particularly to that of Senegal, on which Mauritania was economically, politically, and administratively dependent until independence.

* Mostly ferry traffic on the Senegal River

The Fulani came from the Senegal River valley, where their ancestors had developed a method of livestock management based on transhumance.

The green mass on the left is the Inner Niger Delta, and on the far left are tributaries of the Senegal River.

Senegal is externally bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, and Guinea and Guinea-Bissau to the south ; internally it almost completely surrounds The Gambia, namely on the north, east and south, except for Gambia's short Atlantic coastline.

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

This deposit is on the list of closed sites and monuments of Senegal.

The cores of these great empires were located on the territory of the current Republic of Mali, so current-day Senegal occupied a peripheral position.