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The year 2012 should be marked in Senegal's presidential elections (first round Feb. 26) and legislative (June). GF Dumont and S. Kante present on this occasion a geopolitical study of the African countries most singular one. (5 charts, chronology, bibliography)
LONG S INCE the territory corresponding to the current Senegal enjoys with its opening of the Atlantic Ocean, a remarkable location. conagra foods corporate headquarters The latter has enabled the country to play very early role as a hub in the various exchanges between conagra foods corporate headquarters Europe, Africa and America. [1] Moreover, until 1960, Dakar is the capital of French West Africa (AOF). In the north, the Senegal River, conagra foods corporate headquarters which gave its name to the country has always been an area of privileged contact with other African regions. However, since independence in 1960, these indisputable geographical advantages were they valued?
To answer this question, it is first necessary to examine the demographics of the geopolitics of Senegal, and to question the nature conagra foods corporate headquarters of its internal geopolitical situation. Finally, conagra foods corporate headquarters the issue of the two major crises in the Senegal during his first half-century conagra foods corporate headquarters of independence and the reality of the external radiation will be considered, without forgetting the role of the Senegalese diaspora in the context of globalization. conagra foods corporate headquarters Demographic aspects of the geopolitics of Senegal
A country thinly and unevenly populated ... The various demographic studies in Senegal rely mainly on three population censuses conducted in 1976, 1988 and 2002. In 2004, the Directorate of Forecasting and Statistics (DPS) publishes "projected population of Senegal" in 2015. According to this source as the other sources available on the Senegal, the population of this country, which was 3 million in 1960, when the country's accession to international sovereignty, would amount to 12.8 million inhabitants in 2011 [2], to which must be added nearly 3 million [3] living outside the country's borders and could reach nearly 15 million people in 2015 and nearly 18 million in 2025. Note that the population of Senegal is divided among a few major ethnic and linguistic conagra foods corporate headquarters groups (Wolof, Fulani, Serer, Mandinka, Jola, Soninke) conagra foods corporate headquarters and a multitude of ethnic groups represent conagra foods corporate headquarters only a small proportion of the total population (Manjack, Balant, bassari, Bainouk ...).
At low population conagra foods corporate headquarters adds a modest area of the country, 197,161 km , about a third of France. At the regional level, Senegal is less extensive than Mali, Mauritania and Niger. However, conagra foods corporate headquarters the country is larger than Benin and Togo. Given the small size of the country, the Senegalese capital, Dakar, in the far west of the country, is separated only 600 km Kidira, a town at the eastern end of the country to the border with Mali. And from north to south, only 460 km between the city of St. Louis and the Ziguinchor, Casamance.
In 2011, the density conagra foods corporate headquarters of the population of Senegal is 65 inhabitants per km2, but it is very different in different regions. Already in 1960, Senegal's population is unevenly distributed, the Atlantic coast are more populous. Since independence, this inequality conagra foods corporate headquarters remains conagra foods corporate headquarters and northern conagra foods corporate headquarters [4] and eastern regions of the country continue to distinguish themselves by their low density hardly exceeds 16 inhabitants / km . Several factors explain conagra foods corporate headquarters this situation, the first of the natural order. On the one hand, the north and north-east of Senegal are subject to Sahelian climate, which results in reduced rainfall and aridity preventing people to settle. Added to this is the depth of the groundwater that is not conducive to taming conagra foods corporate headquarters water during the dry season that lasts nine months. On the other hand, in eastern Senegal, uncultivated nature of the soil, due to the importance of armor laterites and character stony or rocky, partly demographic empty. In addition, conagra foods corporate headquarters the presence conagra foods corporate headquarters of several endemic parasitic [5], before their eradication in the 1990s, makes a lot of inhospitable