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The Anglo-French Convention of 1889 was a diplomatic agreement signed on August 10, 1889, between Great Britain and France that delimited the border between the Gambia Protectorate and the colony of Senegal, as well as between the Lagos Colony and Dahomey. [1] [2] The Senegambian border was set at ten kilometers north and south of the river as ...
France had begun settling on the coast of modern Senegal in the 17th century, gradually extending their rule further inland during the mid-1800s onward. [3] [4] The areas east of the Falémé river (i.e. roughly modern Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger) were originally under Senegalese administration as Upper Senegal, but were split off as French Sudan in 1893. [2]
The Gambia–Senegal border (1 C, 1 P) Guinea–Senegal border (2 P) Guinea-Bissau–Senegal border (1 C, 1 P)
Geography of Senegal. Senegal is a coastal West African nation located 14 degrees north of the equator and 14 degrees west of the Prime Meridian. The country's total area is 196,190 km 2 of which 192,000 km 2 is land and 4,190 km 2 is water. 70% of the population of Senegal lives in the Coastal Region, [1] so climate change is expected to ...
t. e. Senegambia, officially the Senegambia Confederation or Confederation of Senegambia, [1] was a loose confederation in the late 20th century between the West African countries of Senegal and its neighbour The Gambia, which is almost completely surrounded by Senegal. The confederation was founded on 1 February 1982 following an agreement ...
Senegal is the westernmost country in the mainland of the Old World, or Afro-Eurasia. [14] It owes its name to the Senegal River, which borders it to the east and north. [15] The climate is typically Sahelian, though there is a rainy season. Senegal covers a land area of almost 197,000 square kilometres (76,000 sq mi) and has a population of ...
Senegal gained independence from France in 1960, followed by Portuguese Guinea (as Guinea-Bissau) in 1974 after a prolonged war against Portuguese forces; the border became an international one between two sovereign states. [4] The border region has been used by various armed groups involved in the Casamance conflict and the Guinea-Bissau Civil ...
France had begun settling in the region of modern Senegal in the 17th century, later annexing the coast of what is now Guinea in the late 19th century as the Rivières du Sud colony. [3] [4] [5] The latter area was constituted as French Guinea in 1893, with both it and Senegal later becoming part of the French West Africa colony. [2]