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Senegal (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Revised April 10, 2024
Report Number IF10164
Report Type In Focus
Authors Alexis Arieff
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
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Summary:

Senegal has remained stable but poor since it gained independence from France in 1960. It is an electoral democracy and one of the few countries in Africa never to have experienced a military coup d’état. A low-level conflict in the southern Casamance region has impeded development, but violence is locally contained and has decreased in recent years amid a renewed push for peace talks. Senegal’s leaders are influential in Francophone African diplomatic circles, and its military is active in global peacekeeping. The population is largely Muslim. While ethnic and sectarian divisions exist, they play less of a role in politics than in many other West African countries.