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Article: National Day of the Republic of Senegal.(Opinion & Editorial)
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- Manila Bulletin
- Article date:
- April 3, 2003
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SENEGAL celebrates its National Day today. Dakar, the capital and the principal port and commercial center, is home to 18 percent of the population. Other major urban centers are Thies, Kaolack, and SaintLouis, all of which are in western Senegal.
This Western African country is bounded on the east by Mali, on the south by Guinea and Guinea-Bisau, and on the west by the Atlantic Ocean. The 43year-old republic is now populated by 9.8 million Senegalese, the majority of whom live along the western coast. Ninety-two percent of the people are Sunni Muslims, six percent follow traditional beliefs, and two percent are Christians. Although the Wolof language is the most ...