Countries where ASL or a derivative of ASL is the national or a widespread language include Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana ( with BSL ), Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, the Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d ' Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kenya ( minority use ), Liberia, Madagascar ( minority use ), Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Philippines ( L2 use ), Puerto Rico, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Trinidad and Tobago, Togo, and Zimbabwe ( with ZSL ).

2011, the Forum is scheduled to take place in Dakar ( Senegal ).

Bambara, also known as Bamana, and Bamanankan by speakers of the language, is a language spoken in Mali, and to a lesser extent Burkina Faso, Senegal by as many as six million people ( including second language users ).

The former digraph ny is now written or ñ ( Senegal ).

This is significant as Africans came from a vast geographic region, the West African coastline stretching from Senegal to Angola and in some cases from the south east coast such as Mozambique.

Conversely, the islands do not receive the upwellings ( cold streams ) that affect the West African coast, so the air temperature is cooler than in Senegal, but the sea is actually warmer, because the orographic relief of some islands, as Sao Miguel with steep mountains, cover it with rich woods and luxuriant vegetation where the dense moisture condense and soak the plants, rocks, soil, logs, moss etc.

In the Sahelian countries of West Africa, such as Mali and Senegal, pearl millet is pounded or milled to the size and consistency necessary for the couscous.

Similarly, the Wolof in Senegal is divided into three main groups, the geer ( freeborn / nobles ), jaam ( slaves and slave descendants ) and the underclass neeno.

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.

Guinea is Coast of West Africa and is bordered by Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Mali, Côte d ' Ivoire, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.

This link between non-tonality and geographic location is not limited to Hausa alone, but is exhibited in other northern dialects of neighbouring languages ; such as the difference within Songhay language ( between the northernmost Koyra Chiini and Koyraboro Senni dialects of Timbuktu and Gao, and the Zarma dialect, spoken from western Niger to northern Ghana ), and within the Soninke language ( between the northernmost dialects of Imraguen and Nemadi spoken in east-central Mauritania, and the southern dialects of Senegal, Mali and the sahel ).

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

The instrument is played in Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Senegal, Burkina Faso and The Gambia.

Outbreaks of the disease have been observed in Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, and the Central African Republic, but it is believed that human infections also exist in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, and Senegal.

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

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.

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.

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

For example, it is used in French presidential, legislative, and cantonal elections, and also to elect the presidents of Afghanistan, Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, France, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Liberia, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Timor-Leste, Ukraine, Uruguay, Zimbabwe — see: Table of voting systems by nation.

Senegal (), officially the Republic of Senegal ( République du Sénégal, ), is a country in West Africa.

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.

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.

Pliny connected these two rivers as one long watercourse which flowed ( via lakes and underground sections ) into the Nile, a notion which persisted in the Arab and European worlds – and further added the Senegal River as the " Ger " – until the 19th century.

Africanist historian Donald R. Wright suggests that Senegambian place-names indicate " that the earliest inhabitants might be identified most closely with one of several related groups — Bainunk, Kasanga, Beafada ... To these were added Serer, who moved southward during the first millennium A. D. from the Senegal River valley, and Mande-speaking peoples, who arrived later still from the east.

Senegal experienced its second peaceful transition of power, and its first from one political party to another.

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

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

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 estuary is one of the few good harbours on West Africa's surf-pounded " Windward Shore " ( Liberia to Senegal ), and also has a good watering spot ; it soon became a favourite destination of European mariners.

Chimpanzees near Kédougou, Senegal have been observed to create spears by breaking straight limbs off trees, stripping them of their bark and side branches, and sharpening one end with their teeth.

* September 22 – Mali, the sole remaining member of the " Mali Federation " following the withdrawal of Senegal one month earlier, declares its full independence as the Republic of Mali.

The city of Dakar is a commune, ( also sometimes known as commune de ville ), one of the 67 communes of Senegal.

The commune of Dakar is also a département, one of the 34 départements of Senegal.

Dakar is one of the 11 régions of Senegal.

The Kingdom of Baol or Bawol in central Senegal was one of the kingdoms that arose from the split-up of the Empire of Jolof ( Diolof ) in 1555.

The Layene brotherhood is one of the smaller Muslim brotherhoods of Senegal and is ruled in religious and temporal matters by their Khalifa-General.

Five French heads of state ( Adolphe Thiers, Raymond Poincaré, Paul Deschanel, Philippe Pétain, and Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing ), and one foreign head of state ( Léopold Sédar Senghor of Senegal ) have been members.

For example, flights from Johannesburg to Washington, D. C., currently operated with an Airbus A340-600, once had to stop in Dakar International Airport in Senegal for refuelling, since the aircraft was not able to make the run on one fuel fill.

* N3 road ( Senegal ), one of the national roads in Senegal

Jacques Chirac ( who said, upon hearing of Senghor's death: " Poetry has lost one of its masters, Senegal a statesman, Africa a visionary and France a friend ") and Lionel Jospin, respectively president of the French Republic and the prime minister, did not attend.

The first President of Senegal, Léopold Sédar Senghor ( also a poet ) was one of the primary exponents of negritude, which espoused the idea that the griot traditions of Senegal were as valid, classical and meaningful as French classical music.

By the middle of the 1980s, Super Diamono was one of the top bands in Senegal, in close and fierce competition with Super Étoile de Dakar.