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 has signed, but not ratified the Convention on Marine Dumping.

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 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.

Animal husbandry is limited by the presence of the tsetse fly, though tsetse-resistant cattle have recently been imported from Senegal to a cattle project.

The Atlantic languages are spoken along the Atlantic coast from Senegal to Liberia, though transhumant Fula speakers have spread eastward and are found in large numbers across the Sahel, from Senegal to Nigeria, Cameroon and Sudan.

At the close of the Napoleonic Wars, most of France's colonies were restored to it by Britain, notably Guadeloupe and Martinique in the West Indies, French Guiana on the coast of South America, various trading posts in Senegal, the Île Bourbon ( Réunion ) in the Indian Ocean, and France's tiny Indian possessions ; though Britain finally annexed Saint Lucia, Tobago, the Seychelles, and the Isle de France ( now Mauritius ).

Senegal and the United Arab Emirates received a small number of FAMAS F1 rifles from France, though it was unknown when they received them.

He then scored in the round of sixteen match against Senegal, though Sweden ended up losing 1 – 2 in extra time to a golden goal and were eliminated.

*-( l ) ese ( Aragon → Aragonese, Assam → Assamese, Benin → Beninese, Bhutan → Bhutanese, Burma → Burmese ( though see below ; Irregular forms ), Calabria → Calabrese, China → Chinese, Congo → Congolese, Da Lat ( Vietnam ) → Dalatese, East Timor → East Timorese, The Faroe Islands → Faroese, Gabon → Gabonese, Genoa → Genovese, Guangdong → Cantonese, Guyana → Guyanese, Hong Kong → HongKongnese / Chinese, Japan → Japanese, Lebanon → Lebanese, Macao → Macanese / Chinese, Malta → Maltese, Marshall Islands → Marshallese, Milan → Milanese, Nepal → Nepalese, Piedmont → Piedmontese, Portugal → Portuguese, San Marino → Sammarinese, Sark → Sarkese, Senegal → Senegalese, Shanghai → Shanghainese, Sikkim → Sikkimese, ( South ) Sudan → ( South ) Sudanese, Suriname → Surinamese, Republic of China → Taiwanese, Togo → Togolese, Turin → Torinese, the Tyrol → Tyrolese, Vienna → Viennese, Vietnam → Vietnamese )

Some sources describe him as a Muslim, leading some scholars to speculate that he was from Senegal, Mali, or Guinea, though this assertion is tenuous given the lack of biographical information from this era, and is highly contested.

Discouraging enough, though Senegal can be praised for its ecstatic hip hop scene, sadly enough the solo female artist has no place in Hip Hop in Senegal.

He retired from international football in an effort to concentrate on his club career following a shambolic Africa Cup of Nations by Senegal in 2008, though he was then called up for a friendly against Libya on 20 August 2008, meaning that he had either not retired or chosen to come out of it.

El Hadj Umar Tall remains a legendary figure in Senegal, Guinea, and Mali, though his legacy varies by country.

The Battle of Dakar, also known as Operation Menace, was an unsuccessful attempt by the Allies to capture the strategic port of Dakar in French West Africa ( modern-day Senegal ), which was under Vichy French control, and to install the Free French under General Charles de Gaulle there.

101 Brigade, supported by 2 battalions from 102 Brigade, went into action at Dakar, Senegal in July 1940 at part of Operation Menace, the unsuccessful attempt by the British and Free French to seize control of the Vichy French port in West Africa.

This will be used to reflect the city's history as a port and " a city of international transaction ", to purchase work by artists from China, Africa and the Middle East, such as Meschac Gaba and Romuald Hazoumé, from Benin, Hu Xiaoyuan, Xu Zhen and Lu Chunsheng from China, Sherif El Azma from Egypt, Sigalit Landau from Israel, and Huit Facettes of Senegal.

After the decline of the slave trade from Senegal in the 1770s and 1780s, the town became an important port for the shipment of peanuts, peanut oil, gum arabic, ivory, and other products of the " legitimate " trade.

He was born Baye Fall in the port city of Saint-Louis, Senegal.

Anti-British sentiment in Africa had run high after the French battleship Richelieu had been hit in the port of Dakar, Senegal, in French West Africa on July 10, 1940.

Image: Streetsmbour2. jpg | Streets near the port of M ' Bour, Senegal

There are two major mobile telephone operators, Ikatel ( a subsidiary of Sonatel, of Senegal ) and Malitel ( a subsidiary of SOTELMA, the state owned telecommunications company ).

It became the major tool of French colonialism in Senegal, but saddled with debt, it was dissolved 1681 and replaced by another that lasted until 1694, the date of creation of the Royal Company of Senegal, whose director, Andre Brue, would be captured by the Damel of Cay and released against ransom in 1701.

The system of roads in Senegal is extensive by West African standards, with paved roads reaching each corner of the country and all major towns.

Dakar is a major administrative centre, home to the National Assembly of Senegal and Senegal's President's Palace.

Attractions in Dakar include major markets, Dakar Grand Mosque ( built in 1964 ), Dakar Cathedral, Gorée Island, the IFAN Museum of West African culture, the newly completed African Renaissance Monument, clifftop walks and beaches, and Hann Park, home to Senegal Zoo.

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

On March 23, 2010, a major sandstorm hit Mauritania, Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, and inland Sierra Leone.

Biffeche. Biffeche or Bifeche is an area of Senegal centred on the town of Savoigne, some 20 miles north-east of the major coastal city of Saint-Louis.

This was the first major inland conquest by the French, by which they eventually obtained all of Mauritania, Senegal and French Sudan ( now Mali ).

At the very end of the decade, hip hop music spread to the country after being a major part of music in neighboring regions like Senegal.

For much of the 19th century, gum arabic was the major export from French and British trading colonies in modern Senegal and Mauritania.

CGT emerged as the major trade union force amongst the 100 000 strong organized labour force in Senegal and Mauritania after the Second World War.

The Gambia River is a major river in West Africa, running from the Fouta Djallon plateau in north Guinea westward through Senegal and The Gambia to the Atlantic Ocean at the city of Banjul.

In 1758, the British were successful in capturing major French trading bases along the Senegal River area and formed the first Senegambia – a crown colony.

The Berber people is the indigenous and major ethnic group inhabiting North Africa ( west of Egypt ) and part of West Africa ( north of Senegal ).

The more important centres for the slave trade from Senegal were north, at Saint-Louis, Senegal, or to the south in the Gambia, at the mouths of major rivers for trade.

It receives a great deal of rainfall, and the headwaters of three major rivers, the Niger River, the Gambia River and the Senegal River, have their sources on it.

A major annual pilgrimage, called the Grand Magal, attracts between one and two million people from all over Senegal and beyond, from as far away as Europe and America.

In 1961 Afewerk held a major retrospective in Addis Ababa, which led to his painting Maskal Flower being shown at international exhibitions in Russia, the United States and Senegal.

While the drying begun around 1895 and caused its first large famine only in the early 20th century, the 1820s and 1830s saw a 12 to 15 year drought and regional instances of major famine from Senegal to Chad.