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Senegal River

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Senegal River
A river of western Africa rising in western Mali and flowing about 1,609 km (1,000 mi) generally northwest and west along the Mauritania-Senegal border to the Atlantic Ocean.


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But his parents were to divorce, and as it would not be seemly for Daby's father to be seen raising a young child on his own, Daby was sent to live with an uncle in Djeole, in the south of the country near Kaedi, on the banks of the Senegal River.
The Senegal River Basin Project, for example, was designed to benefit Mali, Senegal and Mauritania by producing hydroelectric power from two dams, improving the navigability of the river and providing much needed irrigation water.
During the following two centuries expansion created an empire which stretched from Timbuktu to the Senegal River and which prospered until the French conquest in 1892.
 
 
 
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