Foreign Trade in Senegal, Dakar
Business in Senegal: Kaolack, Thiès, Port of Dakar, Pikine, Touba, Wolof
Senegal is a
West African country
- Senegalese population: 14 million inhabitants
- Capital of Senegal: Dakar
- Senegal has great political stability
- Senegal is the fourth of West African economy (after Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Ghana)
- Senegal is one of the more industrialised African countries
- Currency of Senegal: CFA Franc
- Senegal share borders with
Gambia (circumscribed in Senegal),
Guinea,
Guinea-Bissau,
Mauritania (813 kilometres) and
Mali
- Distance from Senegal to
Cape Verde: 560 kilometres
Largest Senegalese cities (region/population, million people)
- Dakar (Dakar/1,3)
- Pikine (Dakar/1,3)
- Touba (Diourbel/0,8)
- Guédiawaye (Dakar/0,3)
- Thiès (Thiès /0,3)
- Kaolak (Kaolak/ 0,2)
- M'bour (Thiès/0,2)
- Rufisque (Dakar/0,2)
- Saint-Louis (Saint-Louis/0,2)
- Ziguinchor (Ziguinchor/ 0,2)
- Diourbel (Diourbel/0,1)
- Tambacounda (Tambacounda/0,1)
- Louga (Louga/0,1)
- Kolda (Kolda/0,8)
- Mbacké (Diourbel/0,7)
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Senegal
- Masters: International Business, Business in Africa, Foreign Trade, Transport in Africa
- Doctorates: African Business, World Trade
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- Official language of Senegal: French
- The six national languages of Senegal are:
- Wolof (spoken by 72% of the Senegalese)
- Sérère
- Fula
-
Mandinka
-
Soninke
- Diola
- Total Senegalese area: 196.712 km²
- Climate of Senegal: tropical
- Calling code of Senegal: 221
- Senegalese code top-level domain: .sn
Cheikh Anta Diop (Senegalese Historian, Thieytou -Caytou- Diourbel region, 1923)
The Republic of Senegal is composed by 14 regions (population, million people):
- Dakar (2,4)
- Diourbel (0,9)
- Fatick (0,6)
- Kaffrine
- Kaolack (1,1)
- Kédougou
- Kolda (0,8)
- Louga (0,5)
- Matam (0,4)
- Saint-Louis (0,8)
- Sédhiou
- Tambacounda (0,5)
- Thiès (1,3)
- Ziguinchor (0,5)
Trade Organisations (Senegal)
- West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU)
- U.S.-WAEMU Agreement
- Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
- OHADA
- Organisation for the Development of the Senegal River
- Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD)
- African Union
- AUDA-NEPAD
- Economic Commission for Africa
- African Development Bank
Logistics in Senegal:
The Port of Dakar
is the largest Senegalese port
Access to the Dakar-Lagos Corridor.
Road to Gambia
Religion in Senegal
- Sunni Islam (95% of the Senegalese population)
- African Traditional Religions
- Christianity
Senegalese Ethnicities
- Wolof (39% of the Senegalese population)
- Fula (26%)
- Serer (15%)
- Jola (Dyula) (4%)
- Malinke (4%)
- Other ethnicities: Soninke and Manjaque
History of Senegal
Pathé Diagne (Senegalese linguist)
- 100,000 years: flint weapons (Sérère country)
- 1st century: ceramics (Senegal River Valley)
- Sixteenth century: Serer dynasties
- 850: Kingdom of Tekrour (converted to Islam in 1030)
- 1040: Almoravids (conquest of Spain)
- 1100: Kingdom of Sosso (Soumaoro Kanté)
- 1200: Senegal under the Malian Empire domination
- 1360: foundation of the Wolof Empire (Ndiadiane Ndiaye)
- 1400: Kingdom of Sine
- 1444: Portuguese arrives to Senegal
- Slave Trade
- Denianké dynasty
- 1673: Islamic revolution
- 1669: arrival of French
- Colonisation
- 1895: French West Africa (AOF)
- Independence (France): 1960
Higher Education in Senegal
LMD System (Bachelor, Master, Doctorate) - Senegalese Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research
Public Senegalese Universities
- University Cheikh Anta Diop (Dakar)
- University Gaston Berger (Saint Louis)
- University of Bambey
- University of Thiès
- University of Ziguinchor
Private Senegalese Universities (Dakar)
- University Amadou Hampaté Bâ
- University of the Company
- University Dakar Bourguiba
- University of the Sahel
- Euro-Africa University
- University Sine-Saloum El Hadji Ibrahima Niasse (Kaolack)
Senegal is a member of the African and Malagasy Council for Higher Education (CAMES)
Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegalese intellectual, poet and politician)
Senegal
Sénégal
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