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Dakar–Niger Railway

Construction work on the Dakar–Niger Railway began at the end of the 19th century under the French general Gallieni, commander of French Sudan.


128th Airborne Command and Control Squadron

Carried passengers from Pisa to Port Lyautey Airfield, French Morocco where ATC transports moved them across the Atlantic or to Dakar for movement via South Atlantic Transport Route.

1927 Atlantic hurricane season

It formed off Dakar in early September and moved nearly due west for an entire week with a slight northward grade.

2009 IFA Shield

Most of the teams came from the I-League 1 & 2, with AS Douanes (Dakar) invited from Senegal and Tata Football Academy qualifying by winning the Prodyut Dutta Memorial Trophy.

2sTV

The channel is based in the business quarter close to the Banque Centrale des États de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (BCEAO) in the centre of Dakar.

824th Bombardment Squadron

It also engaged in transport operations from North Africa to the Azores or Dakar in French West Africa where personnel were eventually transported to Florida.

9th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron

Moved personnel from sDakar in French West Africa where personnel were transported across the South Atlantic to Brazil and eventually to Morrison Field, Florida via Trinidad.

Abasse Ndione

Abasse Ndione was born on 16 December 1946 in the village of Bargny, close to Dakar, the son of a shopkeeper.

AllAfrica.com

It is available in both English and French and produced by AllAfrica Global Media, which has offices in Cape Town, Dakar, Lagos, Monrovia, Nairobi, and Washington, D.C..

Arthur Gómez

Gómez's last appearance for Gambia's national team was in 2003, when they visited Senegal in Dakar for an African Cup qualifying match.

Ayub Thakur

Dr. Ayyub Thakur also attended the 1991 Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Foreign minister meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, the 1993 OIC summit meeting in Dakar, Senegal and World tactics did not yield the desired result.

Battle of Dakar

Also in the afternoon, an attempt was made to set Free French troops ashore on a beach at Rufisque, to the south-east of Dakar.

Dakar 2: The World's Ultimate Rally

The game begins in rural Paris and ends on a beach in Dakar, Senegal, with 11 stages in between, including tracks in the Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains.

Dakar Department

The département of Dakar is divided into four arrondissements: Almadies, Grand Dakar, Parcelles Assainies (which literally means "drained lots"; this is the most populous arrondissement of Dakar), and Plateau/Gorée (downtown Dakar).

Dakar-Plateau

The commune d'arrondissement of Plateau/Gorée (34,626 inhabitants), in the arrondissement of Dakar-Plateau, is the historical heart of the city, and most ministries and public administrations are located there.

There are five communes d'arrondissement in Dakar-Plateau: Plateau/Gorée, Médina, Fass-Gueule Tapée-Colobane, Fann Point-E, and Île de Gorée.

David W. Doyle

In 1963 he became Station Chief at Dakar, Senegal, where he remained until 1967, then was with the CIA's Soviet Bloc Division until a posting to Brussels (1969-1971) and then to the Africa Division.

Dewoitine D.332

The three D.333s were used on the Toulouse-Dakar sector of the Air France South American route for several years.Two of these planes were transferred to the Argentine Air Force after WWII and usde along with two 338s.

Éric Aubijoux

Éric Aubijoux died on the 14th and penultimate stage between Tambacounda and Dakar.

Erich Raeder during World War II

On 20 June 1940 Raeder sent a memo to Hitler calling for Germany to take over the entire French fleet and the French bases on the Atlantic coast and in Dakar.

Farman F.70

Lignes Aeriennes Latécoère used the aircraft to operate passenger and mail routes between Casablanca and Dakar and also from Algiers to Biskra.

Fashoda Incident

When one draws a line from Cape Town to Cairo (Rhodes' dream) and another line from Dakar to French Somaliland (now Djibouti) by the Red Sea in the Horn (the French ambition), these two lines intersect in eastern South Sudan near the town of Fashoda (present-day Kodok), explaining its strategic importance.

Fernando de Noronha Airport

It provided technical support for the Natal-Dakar air route, which provided a transoceanic link between Brazil and French West Africa for cargo, transiting aircraft and personnel.

Gee Bayss

In 2008, hBee Bayss released his first mixtape, “Egotrip N’ Scratchness”, recorded between Dakar (Senegal) and Nouakchott (Mauritania) inviting famous artists of Hip Hop Galsen, such as Big D, Xuman, Duggy Tee, Nix among others.

Guy Bourdin

During his military service in Dakar (1948–1949), he received his first photography training as a cadet in the French Air Force.

Janice L. Jacobs

She presented her credentials on May 9, 2006 and formally left Dakar on July 15, 2007.

Jules Wabbes

Other works included the fittings of the Science Library for the Université catholique de Louvain, the fittings of the Sabena airplanes and the fittings of the United States embassies in London, Brussels, Dakar and Rabat.

Khadim N'Diaye

Serigne Khadim N'Diaye (born 30 November 1984 in Dakar) is a Senegalese footballer who plays for Kalmar FF on loan from ASC Linguère as a goalkeeper.

Levasseur PL.8

On 20 December 1929, PL.8-02, registered F-AJKP to Cie Generale Aeropostale and based at Dakar, while flown by pilot Henry Delaunay, was badly damaged when it hit a pothole on landing at Istres and not repaired.

Mame Younousse Dieng

Mame Younousse Dieng is a Senegalese writer born in Tivaouane who lives in Dakar.

Margaret Danner

In 1966, Danner took her long-desired trip to Africa through the John Hay Whitney Fellowship to join prominent African-American cultural figures at the First World Festival of Negro Arts in Dakar, Senegal.

Mbaye-Jacques Diop

On 13 February 2008, the Grand Marabout of the Mourides, Serigne Mouhamadou Lamine Bara Mbacké, asked Diop to return from Paris to meet with Wade in Dakar on 14 February.

Moi Torrallardona

In 2010, since Vila decided not to participate in the Dakar, Torrallardona took the start in the rally on a new team, driving an Iveco truck of Gérard de Rooy, who did not compete because of an injury, together with the French pilot Joseph Adua and the Polish mechanic Darek Rodewald.

Montaudran

It is notable thanks to the Aéropostale company and its aerodrome which was the base for the aeronautical pioneers between 1917 and 1933 who established the first commercial air routes with postal flights to Casablanca, Dakar... and on to South America.

Nafissatou Niang Diallo

Born in Dakar, she was brought up from infancy by her paternal grandmother after her mother's death.

Nick Thorpe

After graduation, he attended the University of Dakar (since 1987 renamed Cheikh Anta Diop University) in Senegal, and the University of Freiburg in Breisgau in Germany.

Ocean rowing

French Explorer and Sport-Adventurer Charles Hedrich set the record for the fastest solo Atlantic crossing in 2007, from Dakar to Brazil in 36 days and 6 hours.

Ola Balogun

He studied at the University of Dakar (1962-3) and at the University of Caen, France (1963-6).

Ramon Goose

As of 2012 Goose has started work on the Desert Rock (band) a unique musical project which evolved after Goose travelled to the Sahara and also Dakar to combine his love of Berber and Mandinka rhythms and melodies with Blues Rock.

Roberts International Airport

In the late 1970s and into the early 1980s, the airport became Pan Am's principal African hub, with a non-stop service from New York JFK connecting at Robertsfield to such destinations as Dakar, Accra, Abidjan, Lagos, and Conakry, among others, and continuing on to Nairobi and even at times Johannesburg, so that for many years virtually every Pan Am passenger to Africa passed through Robertsfield.

Schlagtrio

This revision was carried out during a holiday break in 1974, at N'Gor, a beach resort near Dakar in Senegal (Kurtz 1992, 50).

Senegalese Air Force

The Armée de l'Air Sénégalaise headquarters are currently located at Ouakam, near the capital of Dakar, on the opposite side of the Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport.

Serge Guinchard

He is a French jurist and Professor emeritus at Panthéon-Assas University, a post he assumed after leaving positions at the Law School of Dakar and Jean Moulin University Lyon 3.

SS West Saginaw

She then sailed to Bathurst, South Africa, arriving on 10 June and departing the same day for Dakar.

Tukar

Gravrand, Henry, "La Civilisation Sereer, vol. 1, Cosaan : les origines", Nouvelles éditions africaines, Dakar; Présence africaine, Paris, 1983, ISBN 2-7236-0877-8


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