This country's capital, Dakar, was once the capital of French West Africa
[DOC] [TLE] About Senegal  SimSenegal - AMETrade [PAR] Annual rainfall in the country's capital does not normally exceed 600mm, and the 
main ... Senegal achieved independence in 1960, after having merged with 
French ... Dakar currently has the second biggest port in West Africa (although, 
once... [DOC] [TLE] HISTORY OF THE FRENCH EMPIRE [PAR] French and British in west Africa: 15th - 19th century .... each year to Saint Louis (
soon to be linked by rail, in 1885, to a deep-water harbour at Dakar).