Senegal
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- 1794 - 1809, 1817
- 25 Nov 1958
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- 25 Nov 1958 - 4
Apr 1959
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- 4 Apr 1959 - 20 Aug
1960
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- Adopted 20 Aug
1960
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Map
of Senegal
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Hear
National Anthem
"Pincez Tous vos Koras,
Frappez les Balafons"
(Pluck Your Koras,
Strike the Balafons)
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Text
of National Anthem
Adopted 1960
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Constitution
(7 Jan 2001; in French)
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Capital:
Dakar
(Saint-Louis 1659-1809,
1817-1904, 1817-8 Jan
1958;
Freetown 1809-1817)
(Mali
Fed.: Dakar 4 Apr
1959 - 20 Aug 1960;
Senegambia: Dakar 1 Feb
1982 - 30 Sep 1989)
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Currency:
Communauté
Financière
Africaine
Franc
(XOF);
eCFA (2016-2017)
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National
Holiday: 4 Apr (1960)
Fête Nationale du
Sénégal
(Independence Day)
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Population:
15,736,368
(2019) |
GDP: $54.8
billion (2017)
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Exports:
$2.36 billion (2017)
Imports: $5.21
billion (2017)
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Ethnic groups:
Wolof 37.1%, Pular 26.2%, Serer 17%,
Mandinka 5.6%, Jola 4.5%, Soninke
1.4%, other 8.3% (includes Europeans
and persons of Lebanese descent)
(2017)
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Total Active
Armed Forces: 13,620 (2010)
French Troops: 350
(2016)
Merchant marine:
32 ships (2019)
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Religions:
Muslim 95.9% (most adhere to one of the
four
main Sufi brotherhoods), Christian 4.1%
(mostly
Roman Catholic) (2016) |
International
Organizations/Treaties: ACP,
AfCFTA,
AfDB, AIIB (signatory), APM, AU,
BCEAO,
BTWC, CD, CEN-SAD, CPLP (associate observer),
CTBT, EBRD (applicant), ECOWAS,
EITI, ESCR, FAO, FZ, G-15, G-77,
IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, ICSID, IDA, IDB, IEA (association),
IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO,
Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, IRENA, ISA, ISESCO,
ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LU, MIGA, NAM,
NPT, NTBT, OIC, OIF, OPCW, PCA, UN, UNCLOS, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNFCC,
UNFCC-KP, UNFCC-PA, UNHCR,
UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WADB (regional),
WAEMU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
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Senegal
Index
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Chronology
1626
First French settlements in Senegal
(Saint-Louis)
(under the Compagnie
Normande de Sénégambia).
1658
Administered by Compagnie
du Cap Vert et du
Sénégal.
28 May
1664
Under Compagnie des Indes
Occidentales.
9
Apr
1672
Under Compagnie de
Sénégal ou d'Afrique.
1
Nov
1677
French squadron commanded by a
vice-admiral Count
Jean
II d'Estrées capture the island of
Gorée.
10 Aug
1678
Gorée ceded to France
by Dutch in Treaty of Nijmegen.
1679
Kings of Rufisque, "Portudal" and
"Joal" ceded
ownership of the coasts between Cape
Verd and the
Gambia River to France.
1682
Under Compagine d'Afrique.
12 Sep
1684
Under the Compagine de
Guineé.
1
Jan 1693 - Jul 1693
English occupation.
Mar 1696
Under
the Compagnie Royale du Sénégal.
11 Jul
1710
Under the Compagnie des
Marchands de Rouen.
15 Dec
1718
Under the Compagnie des
Indes Orientales
(French East India Company).
30 Apr
1758 - 11 Feb 1779 British
occupation of Fort St. Louis (and Gorée
on
31 Dec 1758).
10 Feb
1763
Gorée Island restored to France.
1763
French negotiate with the Damel du
Cayor (Meïssa
Bigué Ngoné Fall), the cession of the
Cape Verd
peninsula from Cape Manuel to Cape
Bernard.
25 May
1765
British colony of Senegambia.
Apr
1766
Senegambia a crown colony.
30 Jan
1779
Senegal retaken France (Gambia posts
taken on
11 Feb 1779).
3 Sep
1783
Formally restored to France by
(U.K.)(taking
possession 23 May 1784).
13
Jul 1809 - 25 Jan 1817 British
occupation (in Gorée from 1800).
25
Jan
1817
French reoccupy Senegal colony.
1
Nov 1854 - 26 Feb 1859 Gorée
detached from Senegal, becoming part
of the
Colony of Gorée and Dependencies,
headed by the
Commandant of the Naval Division of
the Western
Coasts of Africa (see Gabon).
16 Jun
1895
Part of French West Africa (Afrique
Occidental
Française)(AOF)(Dahomey,
French Guinea, French
Sudan, Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Niger,
Senegal,
and Upper Volta).
13
Feb
1904
Senegal colony and protectorate.
16
Jun 1940 - 23 Nov 1942
Administration loyal to Vichy France
(from 23 Nov
1942 [under Darlan to 24 Dec 1942],
Free French).
23-25
Sep 1940
Failed Free French and
Allied assault on Dakar.
27 Oct
1946
Senegal overseas territory of France.
25
Nov
1958
Autonomy (State of Senegal [État du
Sénégal]).
25
Nov 1958
Member state of the Communauté
(French Community).
24 Jan 1959
Republic of
Senegal (République du Sénégal)
4 Apr
1959
Sudanese Republic (now Mali) and
Senegal form the
Mali
Federation, which accedes to
independence
20 Jun 1960 (see Mali).
20
Aug
1960
Senegal withdraws from the Mali
Federation.
26
Aug 1960
Senegal is
proclaimed a sovereign state.
1 Feb
1982 - 30 Sep 1989 Part of the
Senegambia Confederation (Confédération
de la Sénégambie)
with The Gambia.
26
Dec 1982
Secessionist movement in Casamance
region begins.
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Senegal
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Traditional
States
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French West
Africa
(1895-1958)
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Dakar
and
Dependencies
(1924-1946)
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Gorée
(1588-1817,
1854-1859) |
Casamance
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Historical
Maps
of
Senegal
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French
West Africa (AOF)
Map
of French
West
Africa
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Capital:
Dakar (Senegal)
(Gorée 1902-1904;
Saint-Louis 1895-1902)
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Population:
18,000,000
(1959 est.);
14,944,800 (1937) |
Currency: 1958-1960:
Communauté Financière
Africaine Franc (XOF);
1945-4 Dec 1958: French West
African Franc (XCOF);
1895-1945 French West African
Franc (XOAF) |
Exports: $221.1 million (1953)
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Imports: $350.5 million (1953) |
Governors-general
16 Jun 1895 - 1 Nov 1900
Jean Baptiste Émile
Louis
(b. 1853 - d. 1933)
Barthélémy Chaudié
15 Jul 1897 - 2 Oct 1897
Noël Eugène Ballay
(b. 1847 - d. 1902)
(acting for Chaudié)
28 Jul 1898 - 13 Nov 1898
Noël Eugène Ballay
(s.a.)
(acting for Chaudié)
1 Nov 1900 - 26 Jan 1902
Noël Eugène
Ballay
(s.a.)
19 Apr 1901 - 26 Oct 1901 Victor Lanrezac
(acting for Ballay)(b. 1854 - d. 1916)
26 Jan 1902 - 15 Mar 1902 Pierre
Paul Marie Capest (acting) (b. 1857 - d. 1924)
15 Mar 1902 - 15 Dec 1907 Ernest
Roume
(b. 1858 - d. 1941)
29 Jun 1902 - 25 Oct 1902 Victor
Liotard (acting for Roume) (b. 1858 - d. 1916)
10 Jun 1903 - 29 Oct 1903 Martial
Henri Merlin
(b. 1860 - d. 1935)
(acting for Roume)
8 Jul 1904 - 5 Nov 1904
Martial Henri Merlin
(s.a.)
(acting for Roume)
21 Jul 1905 - 5 Nov 1905
Martial Henri Merlin
(s.a.)
(acting for Roume)
18 Mar 1905 - 22 Apr 1905
Camille Guy (acting for Roume) (b.
1860 - d. 1929)
15 Dec 1907 - 9 Mar 1908 Martial
Henri Merlin (1st time) (s.a.)
(acting)
9 Mar 1908 - 26 Jun 1915
Amédée William
Merlaud-Ponty (b.
1866 - d. 1915)
Jan 1912 - Aug
1912 Marie
François Joseph
Clozel (b. 1860 - d.
1918)
(acting for Ponty)
14 Jun 1915 - 3 Jun 1917
Marie François Joseph
Clozel (s.a.)
(acting for Ponty to 26 Jun 1915)
3 Jun 1917 - 22 Jan 1918
Joost van
Vollenhoven
(b. 1877 - d. 1918)
22 Jan 1918 - 30 Jul 1919
Gabriel Louis Angoulvant (acting) (b. 1872 - d.
1932)
30 Jul 1919 - 16 Sep 1919
Charles Désiré Auguste
Brunet (b. 1878 - d. 1957)
(acting)
16 Sep 1919 - 18 Mar 1923
Martial Henri Merlin (2nd time) (s.a.)
18 Mar 1923 - 15 Oct 1930 Jules
Gaston Henri Cardé
(b. 1874 - d. 1949)
31 May 1924 - 19 Oct 1924
Auguste Alphonse Henri Dirat
(b. 1872 - d. 19..)
(acting
for Cardé)
17 Apr 1926 - 19 Nov 1926
Auguste Alphonse Henri
Dirat (s.a.)
(acting for Cardé)
23 Mar 1929 - 30 Oct 1929
Auguste Alphonse Henri
Dirat (s.a.)
(acting for Cardé)
15 Oct 1930 - 27 Sep 1936 Joseph
Jules
Brévié
(b. 1889 - d. 1964)
6 Apr 1933 - 2 Dec 1933
Albéric Auguste Fournier
(b. 1878 - d. 19..)
(acting for Brévié)
7 May 1935 - 5 Dec 1935
Pierre François Boisson
(b. 1894 - d. 1948)
(acting for Brévié)
27 Sep 1936 - 14 Jul 1938 Jules
Marcel de
Coppet
(b. 1881 - d. 1968)
14 Jul 1938 - 28 Oct 1938 Léon
Geismar (acting)
(b. 1895 - d. 1944)
28 Oct 1938 - 10 Aug 1939 Pierre
François Boisson (1st time) (s.a.)
(acting)
10 Aug 1939 - 25 Jun 1940 Léon
Henri Charles
Cayla
(b. 1881 - d. 1965)
25 Jun 1940 - 13 Jul 1943 Pierre
François Boisson (2nd time) (s.a.)
(also named High Commissioner for all French Africa,
responsible for the territories that did not rally
to
the Free French)
14 Nov 1942 - 24 Dec 1942 Jean
Louis Xavier François Darlan (b. 1881 – d. 1942)
(High
Commissioner of France for North and West Africa)
24 Dec 1942 -
3 Jun 1943 Henri Honoré
Giraud
(b. 1879 - d. 1949)
(acting High
Commissioner of France for North Africa)
13 Jul 1943 - 2
Apr 1946 Pierre Charles
Cournarie
(b. 1895 - d. 1968)
May 1946 - 27 Jan
1948 René Victor Marie
Barthès (b. 1894 - d.
1965)
27 Jan 1948 - 24 May 1951 Paul
Léon Albin
Béchard
(b. 1899 - d. 1982)
24 May 1951 - 21 Sep 1952 Paul
Louis Gabriel Chauvet (acting)(b. 1904 - d. 2007)
21 Sep 1952 - 5 Jul 1956
Bernard
Cornut-Gentille
(b. 1909 - d. 1992)
5 Jul 1956 - 4 Apr
1957 Gaston
Custin
(b. 1903 - d. 1993)
High Commissioners
4 Apr 1957 - Jul
1958 Gaston
Custin
(s.a.)
Jul 1958 - 22 Dec 1958
Pierre
Messmer
(b. 1916 - d. 2007)
Senegal
Governors of the Compagnie Normande de Rouen
de Sénégambie
1626 -
1631
Thomas Lambert (Lombard)
(d. 1631)
1631 -
1641
Jacques Fuméchon
1641 -
1648
Jean Colyer (Caullier)
1649 -
1650
sieur de Soussy (Souffy)
(d. 1650)
1651 -
1658
sieur Mésineau
(d. 1658)
Governors of the Compagnie du Cap-Vert
et du Sénégal
1658 -
1661
sieur Raguenet
(d. 1661)
1662 - 1664
sieur
du Boulay
(d. 1664)
Governors and Directors of the Compagnie
des Indes Occidentales in
St.-Louis
1665 - 1668
sieur
Jacquet
1668 - 9 Apr
1672
sieur de Richemont
(d. 1673)
Governor of the Compagnie du Sénégal
1672 -
1673
sieur de Richemont (acting)
(s.a.)
Director and Commandant-general of the Compagnie
du Sénégal ou d'Afrique
1674 -
1682
Jacques Fuméchon
Directors of the Compagnie d'Afrique
1682
Dancourt
1682 - 12 Sep
1684
Denis Basset
Directors-general of the Compagnie de
Guinée
12 Sep 1684 - Jul 1688 Louis
Moreau de Chambonneau (d.
1695)
(1st time)
1688
Jacques Fuméchon
1688 -
1689
Louis Moreau de Chambonneau
(s.a.)
(2nd time)
1689 - 1693
Michel Jajolet de La Courbe (d.
af.1713)
(interim)
1 Jan 1693 - Jul 1693
John Booker -English
commander
(d. 1693)
Jul 1696 - 1695
Louis Moreau de
Chambonneau
(s.a.)
(3rd time)
Directors and Commandants of the Compagnie
Royale du Sénégal
1695 - 20 Aug 1697
Jean Bourguignon (acting)
20 Aug 1697 - 12 Apr 1702 André
Brué
(b. 1654 - d. 1738)
12 Apr 1702 -
1706
Jacques Joseph Lemaître
1706 - 11 Jul 1710
Michel
Jajolet de La Courbe (s.a.)
Directors of the Compagnie des Marchands
de Rouen
11 Jul 1710 - 15 Aug 1711 Guillaume
Joseph
Mustellier (b.
16.. - d. 1711)
1712 - 2 May
1713
Pierre, sieur de Richebourg (d.
1713)
20 Apr 1714 - 15 Dec 1718 André
Brué
(s.a.)
Directors of the Compagnie des Indes
Orientales
15 Jun 1720 - Apr 1723
Nicolas Desprès de Saint-Robert (d.
1725/26)
(1st time)
Apr 1723 -
1725
Julien du Bellay
1725
Nicolas Desprès de Saint-Robert (s.a.)
(2nd time)
1725 -
1726
Arnaud Plumet (acting)
1726 -
1733
Jean Levens de la Rouquette
1733 - 7 Mar 1733
François Etienne sieur Le
Juge (d. 1733)
(did not take office)
1733 -
1738
Sebastian Devaulx (acting to 1736)
1738 -
1746
Pierre Félix Barthélemy
David (b. 1711 - d. 1795)
1746 - 30 Apr
1758
Jean-Baptiste Estoupan de la Brüe
British Governors
30 Apr 1758 -
1763
Richard Alchorne Worge
(b. 1707 - d. 1774)
Dec 1763 - 25 May 1765 John Barnes
25 May 1765 - Nov 1775
Charles O'Hara
(b. 1730 - d. 1805)
Nov 1775 - 8 Apr
1777 Matthias MacNamara
8 Apr 1777 - 18 Aug
1778 John Clarke
(d.
1778)
18 Aug 1778 - 11 Feb 1779 William Lacy
(did not assume office)
18 Aug 1778 - 11 Feb 1779 George Fall
(acting)
Lieutenant governors
25 May 1765 - 24 Jan 1774 Joseph
Debat
(Gambia Superintendent of
Trade to Apr 1766)
24 Jan 1774 - Aug 1775
William Myres
Aug 1774 - Nov
1775 Matthias
MacNamara
Nov 1775 - Dec
1775 Thomas
Sharpless (acting)
Dec 1775 - 8 Aug
1776 Joseph
Wall
(b. 1737 - d. 1802)
8 Aug 1776 -
1776
George Fall (acting) (1st time)
1776 - 18 Aug
1778
William Lacy (acting)
18 Aug 1778 - 11 Feb 1779 George Fall
(acting) (2nd time)
Governors
11 Feb 1779 - Mar 1779
Armand-Louis de Gontaut Biron,
(b. 1747 - d. 1793)
duc de Lauzun
Mar 1779 - 7 Mar
1781 Jacques Joseph Eyriès
(b.
1733 - d. 1798)
7 Mar 1781 - Jul
1782 Jean-Baptiste Bertrand
(acting)
Jul 1782 - Feb
1784 Anne
Gaston Dumontet
Feb 1784 - Feb
1786 Louis
Legardeur, sieur
de
(b. 1721 - d. 1786)
Repentigny
Feb 1786 - Dec
1787 Stanislas
Jean
Boufflers,
(b. 1738 - d. 1815)
chevalier de Boufflers
Dec 1787 - Jan
1801 François
Blanchot de
Verly
(b. 1735 - d. 1807)
(1st time)
Jan 1801 - 2 Jul
1802 de Charbonnes (acting)
2 Jul 1802 - 27 Oct
1802 Louis Henri Pierre Lasserre
27 Oct 1802 - 12 Sep 1807 François
Blanchot de
Verly
(s.a.)
(2nd time)
Sep 1807 - 13 Jul 1809
Pierre Levasseur
British Governors
13 Jul 1809 -
1811
Charles William
Maxwell
(b. 1776 - d. 1848)
1811 -
1814
Charles William
MacCarthy
(b. 1764 - d. 1824)
1814 - Dec 1816
Thomas Brereton
(b. 1782 - d. 1831)
Dec 1816 - 25 Jan 1817
D. Mackenzie (acting)
Commandants
1815 - 1816
Élie-Joseph, comte de Trigant
(b. 1759 - d. 1833)
de Beaumont (did not
take office)
25 Apr 1816 - 1 Jan 1818 Julien
Schmaltz (1st time) (b. 1771
- d. 1826)
(arrived 25 Jan 1817)
2 Jan 1818 - 10 Jul 1819 Aimé
Benjamin Fleuriau (acting) (b. 1785
- d. 1862)
10 Jul 1819 - 10 Aug 1820 Julien Schmaltz
(2nd time) (s.a.)
11 Aug 1820 - 28 Feb 1822 Louis Jean
Lecoupe de Montereau, (b. 1772 - d. 1840)
baron Le Coupé
(acting)
1 Mar 1822 - 31 Aug 1824
Jacques-François, baron
Roger (b. 1787 - d. 1849)
(1st time)
1 Sep 1824 - 31 Oct 1825 Gaud Amable Hugon
(acting)
(b. 1783 - d. 1862)
1 Nov 1825 - 18 May 1827 Jacques-François,
baron Roger (s.a.)
(2nd time)
19 May 1827 - 6 Jan 1828 Hyacinthe
Benjamin Gerbidon
(b. 1786 - d. 1854)
(acting)
Governors
7 Jan 1828 - 10 May
1829 Louis Jean Guillaume Jubelin
(b. 1787 - d. 1860)
11 May 1829 - 27 May 1831 Pierre
Édouard
Brou
(b. 1786 - d. 1862)
28 May 1831 - 17 Oct 1833 Thomas Renault
de Saint-Germain (b. 1781 - d. 1833)
18 Oct 1833 - 14 Nov 1833 Jean-Baptiste
Bertrand Armand (b. 1795 -
d. 1849)
Cadéot (acting)
15 Nov 1833 - 10 May 1834 Eustache
Louis Jean
Quernel (b.
1787 - d. 1847)
14 May 1834 - 30 Jun 1836 Louis
Pujol
(b. 1790 - d. 1855)
1 Jul 1836 - 28
Dec 1836 Louis Augustin Médéric Malavois
(b. 1793 - d. 1836)
29 Dec 1836 - 14 Sep 1837 Louis
Laurent Auguste
Guillet (b. 1794
- d. 1871)
(acting)
15 Sep 1837 - 11 Apr 1839 Julien Armand
Soret
(b. 1783 - d. 1864)
11 Apr 1839 - 18 May 1841 Guillaume
Basile Charmasson de
(b. 1780 - d. 1864)
Puylaval
19 May 1841 - 6 May 1842
Jean-Baptiste Montagniés
de (b. 1793 -
d. 1862)
La Roque
7 May 1842 - 5
Feb 1843 Paul Pageot des Noutières
(acting) (b. 1802 - d. 1879)
6 Feb 1843 - 31 Jan 1844
Louis Édouard
Bouët
(b. 1808 - d. 1871)
(from 1844, Louis Édouard Bouët-Willaumez)
1 Feb 1844 - 24 Jul 1844
Auguste-Lazare Laborel (acting) (b.
1798 - d. 1853)
25 Jul 1844 - 11 Dec 1845 Pierre Maurice
Thomas (acting)
12 Dec 1845 - 20 Mar 1846 François Marie
Charles Ollivier (b. 1784 - d. 1846)
21 Mar 1846 - 29 Aug 1846 Louis-Antoine
Houbé (acting) (b.
1798 - d. 18..)
30 Aug 1846 - 23 Aug 1847 Ernest Bourdon,
comte de Gramont (b. 1805 - d. 1847)
24 Aug 1847 - 7 Sep 1847
Jean-François Caille
(acting) (b. 1799 - d.
1847)
7 Sep 1847 - Nov
1847 Léandre Adolphe Joseph
Bertin du (b. 1804 - d. 1884)
Château (1st time)(acting)
Nov 1847 - 1 May 1848
Auguste Laurent François Baudin (b. 1800 -
d. 1877)
(1st time)
1 May 1848 - 23 Nov 1848 Léandre
Adolphe Joseph Bertin du (s.a.)
Château (2nd time)(acting)
23 Nov 1848 - Aug 1850
Auguste Laurent François Baudin (s.a.)
(2nd time)
Aug 1850 - 11 Oct 1850
Pierre Auguste Eugène
Aumont (b.
1802 - d. 1860)
(acting)
11 Oct 1850 - 22 May 1853
Auguste Léopold Protet (1st time) (b. 1808 - d.
1862)
22 May 1853 - 30 Jan 1854 André César
Vérand (acting) (b. 1805 - d.
1870)
30 Jan 1854 - 16 Dec 1854 Auguste Léopold
Protet (2nd time) (s.a.)
16 Dec 1854 - 1 Jun 1861 Louis Léon
César
Faidherbe
(b. 1818 - d. 1889)
(1st time)
4 Sep 1858 - 12 Feb
1859 Armand Robin (acting for Faidherbe)(b. 1813 -
d. 1867)
1 Jun 1861 - 1
Dec 1861 Léopold François Stephan (acting)
(b. 1815 - d. 1886)
1 Dec 1861 - 13 May
1863 Jean Bernard
Jauréguiberry
(b. 1815 - d. 1887)
13 May 1863 - 14 Jul 1863 Jean Émile
Pinet-Laprade (1st time)(b. 1822 - d. 1869)
(acting)
14 Jul 1863 - 1 May 1865 Louis Léon
César
Faidherbe
(s.a.)
(2nd time)
1 May 1865 - 17 Aug
1869 Jean Émile Pinet-Laprade (2nd time)(s.a.)
(acting to 12 Jul 1865)
18 Aug 1869 - 17 Oct 1869 Ferdinand
Charles Alexandre Tredos (b. 1820 - d. 1897)
(acting)
17 Oct 1869 - 18 Jun 1876 François-Xavier
Michel Valière (b. 1826 - d.
1886)
18 Jun 1876 - Apr 1880
Louis Alexandre Esprit
Gaston (b. 1827 - d. 1896)
Brière de I'Isle
Apr 1880 - 4 Aug
1881 Louis Ferdinand de
Lanneau
(b. 1822 - d. 1881)
4 Aug 1881 - Oct
1881 Marie Auguste Deville de
Perière (b. 1825 - d. 1901)
(acting)
Oct 1881 - 28 Jun 1882
Henri Philibert
Canard
(b. 1824 - d. 1894)
28 Jun 1882 - 16 Nov 1882 Aristide Louis
Antoine Vallon (b. 1826 -
d. 1897)
16 Nov 1882 - 28 Jun 1883 Charles Étienne
René Servatius (b. 1878 - d.
1932)
28 Jun 1883 - 25 Jul 1883 Adolphe Ernest
Auguste Le Boucher (b. 1837 - d. 1896)
(acting)
25 Jul 1883 - 15 Apr 1884 Henry Bourdiaux
(acting)
(b. 1838 - d. 1899)
15 Apr 1884 - 14 Apr 1886 Jean-Baptiste
Alphonse Seignac (b. 1833 - d.
1902)
14 Apr 1886 - 29 Apr 1888 Jules
Genouille
(b. 1839 - d. 1923)
29 Apr 1888 - 22 Sep 1890 Clément Léon
Émile Thomas (b.
1840 - d. 1925)
22 Sep 1890 - 19 May 1895 Henri Félix de
Lamothe
(b. 1843 - d. 1926)
19 May 1895 - 28 Jun 1895 Louis Mouttet
(acting)
(b. 1857 - d. 1902)
28 Jun 1895 - 1 Nov 1900
Jean-Baptiste Émile
Louis
(b. 1853 - d. 1933)
Barthélémy Chaudié
1 Nov 1900 - 26 Jan
1902 Noël Eugène
Ballay
(b. 1847 - d. 1902)
Lieutenant-governors
26 Jan 1902 - 15 Mar 1902 Pierre Paul Marie
Capest
(b. 1857 - d. 1924)
15 Mar 1902 - 11 Nov 1902 Ernest
Roume
(b. 1858 - d. 1934)
11 Nov 1902 - 26 Aug 1907 Camille Lucien
Xavier
Guy
(b. 1860 - d. 1929)
26 Aug 1907 - 15 Dec 1907 Joost van
Vollenhouven (acting) (b. 1877 - d.
1918)
15 Dec 1907 - 10 Jun 1908 Martial Henri
Merlin
(b. 1860 - d. 1935)
10 Jun 1908 - 17 Oct 1908 Jean Jules
Émile
Peuvergne
(b. 1849 - d. 1916)
(1st time)
17 Oct 1908 - 23 Feb 1909 Jules
Maurice Gourbeil
(b. 1867 - d. 1948)
23 Feb 1909 - 2 May 1909 Marie
Antoine Edmond Gaudart (b. 1859 -
d. 1942)
(acting)
2 May 1909 - 5
Feb 1911 Jean Jules Émile
Peuvergne
(s.a.)
(2nd time)
5 Feb 1911 - 13 May
1914 Henri François Charles Cor
(b. 1864 - d. 1932)
13 May 1914 - 14 Feb 1916 Raphaël
Valentin Marius Antonetti (b. 1872 - d. 1938)
20 Mar 1917 - 23 Sep 1920 Ernest
Fernand
Levêque
(b. 1852 - d. 1927)
1919 - 1919
Pierre Aimable Chapon-Baissac
(b. 1876 – d. af.1934)
(acting for Levêque)
23 Sep 1920 - 17 Sep 1921 Théophile
Antoine Pascal Tellier (b. 1872 - d. 1955)
(acting)
17 Sep 1921 - 4 Jul 1925 Pierre
Jean Henri
Didelot
(b. 1870 - d. 1941)
4 Jul 1925 - 23 May
1926 Camille Théodore Daniel Maillet
(b. 1879 – d. 1954)
(1st time)(acting)
23 May 1926 - 23 Oct 1926 Joseph Zébédée
Olivier Vadier (b. 1881 - d.
1963)
(acting)
23 Oct 1926 - 12 Mar 1929 Léonce Alphonse
Noël Henri Jore (b. 1882 - d. 1975)
12 Mar 1929 - 4 Jul 1930 Maurice
Beurnier (1st
time) (b. 1878
- d. 1949)
4 Jul 1930 - 15 Aug
1931 Camille Théodore Daniel Maillet
(s.a.)
(2nd time)
15 Aug 1931 - 14 Oct 1931 Benoît Louis
Rebonne (acting)
14 Oct 1931 - Dec 1936
Maurice Beurnier (2nd
time) (s.a.)
Dec 1936 - 25 Oct 1938
Louis Lefebvre
25 Oct 1938 -
1940
Georges Hubert Parisot
(b. 1887 – d. 1969)
1 Jan 1941
- 22 Dec 1942 Georges Pierre Rey
(b. 1897 - d.
1977)
22 Dec 1942 - 2 Dec 1943 Hubert
Jules
Deschamps
(b. 1900 - d. 1979)
2 Dec 1943 - Jun
1945 Charles Jean
Dagain
(b. 1885 - d. 1969)
Jun 1945 - Apr
1946 Pierre
Louis Maestracci
(b. 1893 - d. 1960)
Apr 1946 - 20 May 1947
Oswald
Durand
(b. 1888 - d. 1982)
20 May 1947 - 19 Oct 1950 Laurent Marcel
Wiltord
(b. 1900 - d. 1953)
19 Oct 1950 - 25 Apr 1952 Camille Victor
Bailly
(b. 1907 - d. 1984)
25 Apr 1952 - 19 Feb 1954 Lucien Eugène
Geay
(b. 1900 - d. 1976)
19 Feb 1954 - 31 Oct 1955 Maxime Antoine
Marie Jourdain (b. 1910 - d. 2003)
31 Oct 1955 - 10 Feb 1957 Jean
Colombani
(b. 1903 - d. 1977)
10 Feb 1957 - 25 Nov 1958 Pierre Auguste
Michel Marie Lami (b. 1909 - d. 1994)
High Commissioner
25 Nov 1958 - 20 Jun
1960 Pierre Auguste Michel Marie Lami
(s.a.)
President of the Council
20 Jun 1960 - 5 Sep 1960
Mamadou
Dia
(b. 1910 - d. 2009) UPS
Presidents
5 Sep 1960 - 31 Dec 1980 Léopold
Sédar
Senghor
(b. 1906 - d. 2001) UPS;1976 PSS
1 Jan 1981
- 1 Apr 2000 Abdou
Diouf
(b.
1935)
PSS
(also president of Senegambia 1 Feb 1982 -
30 Sep 1989)
1 Apr 2000 - 2
Apr 2012 Abdoulaye
Wade
(b.
1926)
PDS
2 Apr 2012 - 2
Apr 2024 Macky Sall
(b. 1961) APR
2 Apr 2024 -
Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye
(b.
1980)
PASTEF
Vice President of the Council of Government
18 May 1957 - 26 Jul 1958 Mamadou
Dia
(s.a.)
BPS
President of the Council of Government
26 Jul 1958 - 24 Jan 1959 Mamadou
Dia
(s.a.)
UPS
President of the Council (Prime minister)
24 Jan 1959 - 18 Dec
1962 Mamadou
Dia
(s.a.)
UPS
18 Dec 1962 - 26 Feb 1970 Post
abolished
Prime ministers
26 Feb 1970 - 31 Dec 1980 Abdou
Diouf
(s.a.)
UPS;1976 PSS
1 Jan 1981
- 3 Apr 1983 Habib Thiam (1st
time)
(b. 1933 - d. 2017) PSS
3 Apr 1983 - 29 Apr
1983 Moustapha Niasse (1st
time) (b.
1939)
PSS
(interim)
29 Apr 1983 - 8 Apr 1991 Post
abolished
8 Apr 1991 - 3
Jul 1998 Habib Thiam (2nd
time)
(s.a.)
PSS
3 Jul 1998 - 5
Apr 2000 Mamadou Lamine
Loum
(b.
1952)
PSS
5 Apr 2000 - 3
Mar 2001 Moustapha Niasse (2nd
time)
(s.a.)
AFP
3 Mar 2001 - 4
Nov 2002 Mame Madior Boye
(f)
(b.
1940)
Non-party
4 Nov 2002 - 21 Apr
2004 Idrissa
Seck
(b.
1959)
PDS
21 Apr 2004 - 19 Jun 2007 Macky
Sall
(s.a.)
PDS
19 Jun 2007 - 30 Apr 2009 Cheikh
Hadjibou Soumaré
(b. 1951)
Non-party
30 Apr 2009 - 5 Apr 2012 Souleymane
Ndéné
Ndiaye
(b. 1958) PDS
5 Apr 2012 - 3 Sep
2013 Abdoul
Mbaye
(b. 1953)
Non-party
3 Sep 2013 - 8 Jul 2014
Aminata Touré (f)
(b.
1962)
APR
8 Jul 2014 - 14 May 2019 Mohamed Boun
Abdallah Dionne (b.
1959 - d. 2024) Non-party
14 May 2019 - 17 Sep 2022 Post abolished
17 Sep 2022 - 9 Mar 2024 Amadou
Ba
(b. 1961)
APR
9 Mar 2024 - 8 Apr 2024 Sidiki
Kaba
(b.
1950)
APR
8 Apr 2024
-
Ousmane
Sonko
(b.
1974)
PASTEF
Territorial Disputes: Cross-border
trafficking in persons, timber, wildlife, and cannabis;
rebels from the Movement of Democratic Forces in the
Casamance find refuge in Guinea-Bissau.
Party abbreviations: AFP
= Alliance des Forces de Progrès
(Alliance of the Forces of Progress, social democratic,
center-left, split from PSS, est.13 Aug 1999);
APR = Alliance Pour la République
"Yakaar" (Alliance for the Republic
"Hope", social conservative, economic liberal,
centrist, split from PDS, est.1 Dec 2008); PASTEF
= Patriotes Africains du Sénégal pour le Travail,
l'Éthique et la Fraternité (African Patriots of Senegal
for Work, Ethics and Fraternity, left-wing populist,
Pan-Africanist, banned 31 Jul 2023 - 27 Mar 2024,
est.Jan 2014); PSS =
Parti Socialiste du Sénégal (Socialist Party of Senegal,
democratic socialist, African nationalist, 1976-2000
ruling party, former UPS, est.Dec
1976); PDS = Parti
Démocratique Sénégalais (Senegalese Democratic Party,
liberal, centrist, est.31 Jul 1974);
- Former parties: BPS
= Bloc Populaire Sénégalais
(Senegalese Popular Bloc, social-democratic,
Feb 1957-1958, merged into UPS); UPS
= Union progressiste Sénégalaise
(Senegalese Progressive Union, democratic
socialist, 1960-1974 ruling party,
1958-Dec 1976, renamed PSS)
Dakar and Dependencies
27 Nov 1924
Circumscription of Dakar
and Dependencies (Circonscription de
Dakar et dépendances), incl. Gorée and Rufisque
(separated
from Senegal and directly
subordinated to the Governor-general
of French West Africa).
16 Jun 1940 - 23 Nov 1942 Administration
loyal to Vichy France (from 23 Nov 1942,
Free French).
19 May 1946
Re-incorporated into Senegal (by Décret
no. 46-1108 du 17 mai 1946
Suppression
de la Circonscription de Dakar et dépendances.
JORF du 19 mai 1946).
Administrators supérieur
(subordinated to the
governors-general of French West Africa)
1925
François Eugène Paul Bernard (b.
1879 - d. 19..)
1925 – 1931
Joseph
Zébédée Olivier Vadier (b. 1881 – d. 1931)
1 Jan 1932 -
1940 Louis Charles
Léonce Ponzio (b. 1883 - d. 1969)
1940 –
1943
Pierre Edouard Bienès
(b. 1896 – d. 1951)
1943 - 1945
Albert
Mercadier
(b. 1897 - d. 1979)
1945 – 1946
André Marie Becq
(b. 1889 – d.
1960)
Gorée
1444
Discovered by Portuguese Capt. Dinis Diaz and claimed
for
Portugal (named Ilha de Palma).
1617 - 23 Jan 1663
Dutch colony
(Goede Reede or Goeree).
23 Jan 1664 - 14 Oct 1664 English
occupation.
11 Oct 1664 - 15 Nov 1677 Dutch
rule restored (Goeree).
1
Nov 1677 - 1692 French
rule (Gorée)(taking possession 15 Nov 1677),
part
of Senegal (ceded to France
10 Aug 1678 by Treaty of Nijmegen).
8
Feb 1693 - Jul 1693 English occupation
(see under Senegal).
Jul 1693
French rule
restored.
31 Dec 1758 - 10 Feb 1763 British occupy
Gorée (and from 30 Apr 1758,
Senegal).
10 Feb
1763
Gorée Island restored to France, part of Senegal.
8 May 1779 - 23 May 1784 British
occupation (formally ceded to France by treaty 3 Sep
1783).
1800 - 18 Jan
1804
British occupation.
18 Jan 1804 - 9 Mar 1804 French
re-occupation.
9
Mar
1804
British re-occupation (from 13 Jul
1809 in rest of Senegal).
25 Jan
1817
Part of French Senegal colony.
1
Nov
1854
Gorée detached from Senegal colony and put
under the rule of a
Commandant
Supérieur, Chef de la Division Navale des Côtes
Occidentales d'Afrique (Naval Division of the
Western Coasts
of Africa)(see under Gabon). A
commandant particulier also
existed. Colony of Gorée and Dependencies (Colonie
de Gorée et
Dépendances).
26 Feb
1859
Gorée is re-incorporated into Senegal and put under the
rule of
a Commandant
Supérieur de Gorée et Dépendance.
12 Oct 1882
Gorée et Dépendances is put under the
direct rule of the
governor of Senegal.
Governors
1617 - 1664
....
23 Jan 1664 - Jan
1664 Sir Robert
Holmes
(b. c.1622 - d. 1692)
Jan 1664 - Oct
1664 Morgan
Facey
2 Oct 1664 - 14 Oct 1664 Sir George
Abercromby
1664 -
16..
Jan Cellarius
16.. - 15 Nov
1677
Hopsak
15 Nov 1677 - 12 Sep 1763 the
governors of Senegal
Commandants, Administrators general and Commissioners
of the Navy
12 Sep 1763 - Nov 1764 Pierre,
sieur Poncet de la Rivière (b. 1701 - d. 1784)
Nov 1764 - Mar 1765
.... (acting)
Mar 1765 - Jul
1767
Jean-Georges le Baillif
de (b.
1719 - d. ....)
Mesnager
Jul 1767 - Mar
1768 Claude Le
Lardeux de La Gastière (d. 1768)
Mar 1768 - 4 Oct
1768 Maiziére (acting)
4 Oct 1768 - 10 Dec 1772 Pierre
Louis de Rastel de (b.
1729 - d. 1779)
Rocheblave
10 Dec 1772
Antoine Jean-Baptiste Georges
Louis(b. 1725 - d. 1773)
Desmarets Montchaton (acting)
10 Dec 1772 - Nov 1774
Charles Hippolyte de
Boniface (d.
1782)
Nov 1774 - Dec
1777 Joseph
Alexandre Le
Brasseur (b. 1745 -
d. 1794)
Dec 1777 - Aug
1778 Alexandre
David Armény de Paradis (b. 1734 - d. 1778)
Aug 1778 - 31 Jan 1779
Charles Boucher (acting)
31 Jan 1779 - Mar 1779
Armand-Louis de Gontaut, duc de (b. 1747 -
d. 1793)
Lauzun
British Lieutenant governors
8 May 1779 - May 1779 John
Mackenzie, Lord Macleod (b. 1727 -
d. 1789)
10 May 1779 - Jul 1780 George
Herbert Adams
(b. 17.. - d. 1809)
Jul 1780 - 3 Sep
1783 Joseph
Wall
(b. 1737 - d. 1802)
British Commandants (from
1809, subordinated to British Governors of Senegal and
Gorée)
5 Apr 1800 - 1803
John Fraser
(b. 1760
- d. 1843)
1803 - 18 Jan 1804
Charles Stevenson
18 Jan 1804 - 9 Mar 1804 French
rule
9 Mar 1804-bf.15 Mar 1804 Charles Pickford
(Picford) (b. 1769 - d.
1841)
15 Mar 1804 -
1805
William
Murray
c.Mar 1805 - Sep
1808 Edward Lloyd
(d. 1847)
Sep 1808 - Jul 1811
Charles William
Maxwell (b.
1776 - d. 1848)
c.1811 -
1816
James Chisholm
(b. 1765? - d. 1821)
1816 - 25 Jan 1817
D. Mackenzie
French Captain commanding the African battalion (bataillon
d'Afrique)
(charged by the Governor with civil and military
administration of the island of Gorée)
3 Feb 1817 - 21 Sep 1817 Bertrand Baignères
Commandant pour le Roi de Gorée et dépendances
21 Sep 1817 - 24 Apr 1818 Pierre Ferdinand de
Gavot
(b. 1756 - d. 1832)
Commandants Particuliers de l'île de Gorée et
dépendances
25 Apr 1818 - 23 May 1822 Hervé-Hubert
24 May 1822 - 17 Apr 1823 Cogniasse de Lage
18 Apr 1823 - 25 Apr 1824 Gaud-Amable, baron
Hugon (b. 1783 -
d. 1862)
26 Apr 1824 - 24 Jan 1832 Charles Alexandre
Hesse
25 Jan 1832 - 29 Jun 1832 Fort (acting)
30 Jun 1832 - 11 May 1833 Eustache Louis Jean
Quernel (b.
1787 - d. 1847)
12 May 1833 - 24 Jun 1836 Louis Augustin Médéric
Malavois (b. 1793 - d. 1836)
24 Jun 1836 - 14 Apr 1845 Henry Louis Félicité
Victor Dagorne(b. 1793 - d. 1846)
15 Apr 1845 - 11 Jan 1846 Jean-François Caille
(acting) (b. 1799 - d.
1847)
12 Jan 1846 - 6 May 1847 Petit
7 May 1847 - 26 Jul 1848 Pierre
Claude-Amable Gachot (b. 1796
- d. 1858)
26 Jan 1849 - 3 Mar 1849 Parent (acting)
4 Mar 1849 - 26 Apr 1853 Pierre Aumont
(acting)
(b. 1802 - d. 1860)
27 Jul 1849 - 25 Jan 1853 Roche (acting for
Aumont)
27 Apr 1853 - 31 Oct 1854 Timoléon Jean-François
Ropert (b. 1813 - d. 1872)
(acting)
Commandant Supérieur des
Établissements Français de la Côte
Occidentale
1 Nov 1854 - 26 Feb 1859 Auguste
Léopold
Prôtet
(b. 1808 - d. 1862)
Commandants-Supérieur
Gorée-Gabon
1854 - 23 Mar
1856
Jérôme Félix de Monléon
(b. 1798 - d. 1856)
Apr 1856 - 26 Feb 1859
Auguste Léopold
Prôtet
(s.a.)
Commandants-Particuliers Gorée
1 Nov 1854 - 19 Aug 1855 Timoléon
Jean-François Ropert (s.a.)
20 Aug 1855 - 15 Jan 1859 Jean Isidore
Raoul Paul d'Alteyrac (b. 1813 - d. 1869)
16 Jan 1859 - 2 Mar 1859 Étienne Georges
Catherine de Cools (b. 1811 - d. 1861)
(interim)
Commandants Supérieurs de Gorée et Dépendances
3 Mar 1859 - 24 Jul 1861 Jean Émile
Pinet-Laprade (1st time)(b. 1822 - d. 1869)
23 Jul 1861 - 2 Jan 1862 Cornu (acting)
3 Jan 1862 - 2 May 1863 Jean
Émile Pinet-Laprade (2nd time)(s.a.)
3 May 1863 - 15 Jul 1863 Fontaine (acting)
16 Jul 1863 - 11 Jul 1864 Jean Émile
Pinet-Laprade (3rd time)(s.a.)
12 Jul 1864 - 15 Dec 1864 Charles Gabriel Felicité
Martin (b. 1823 - d. 1876)
des Pallières (acting)
16 Dec 1864 - 30 Apr 1865 Jean Émile
Pinet-Laprade (4th time)(s.a.)
1 May 1865 - 15 Oct 1865 Pierre Nicolas
Ringot (interim)
16 Oct 1865 - 24 Jun 1866 Louis Alexandre Flize
(1st time) (b. 1828 - d. 1871)
(interim)
25 Jun 1866 - 20 Jan 1867 Pierre Alexandre
Mailhetard (b.
1822 - d. 1885)
(interim)
21 Jan 1867 - 24 May 1867 Louis Alexandre Flize
(2nd time) (s.a.)
(interim)
25 May 1867 - 4 Oct 1867 Hopfer (acting)
Commandants du 2nd Arrondissement
5 Oct 1867 - 6 May 1870 Pierre
Alexandre
Mailhetard
(s.a.)
7 May 1870 - 10 Jul 1872 Henri
Philibert Canard (1st time) (b. 1824 - d. 1894)
11 Jul 1872 - 29 Nov 1872 Pèrichout
(acting)
30 Nov 1872 - 26 May 1874 Henri Philibert Canard
(2nd time) (s.a.)
27 May 1874 - 15 Nov 1874 Alexis Wendling (acting)
(b. 1841 - d. 1895)
16 Nov 1874 - 26 Jun 1877 Henri Philibert Canard
(3rd time) (s.a.)
27 Jun 1877 - 15 Nov 1877 Gabet (acting)
15 Nov 1877 - 26 May 1879 Henri Philibert Canard
(4th time) (s.a.)
27 May 1879 - 29 Nov 1879 Charles Émile Boilève
(acting) (b. 1837 - d. 1900)
30 Nov 1879 - 14 Jun 1880 Henri Philibert Canard
(5th time) (s.a.)
15 Jun 1880 - 17 May 1882 Jacquemart
18 May 1882 - 11 Oct 1882 d'Étienne
Casamance
Map
of Casamance
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Capital: Ziguinchor
(Sédhiou 1894-1909) |
Population: 1,748,639 (2012)
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1645
Portuguese under Gonçalo Gamboa Ayala establish a
trading
post at Ziguinchor (Siggcoor).
23 Jan
1836
French establish a trading post at Carabane (Karabane).
4
Feb
1850
First of several French protectorate treaties with local
rulers
is
signed.
12 May
1886 Ziguinchor
formally ceded to France by Portugal in exchange for
territory near Massabé
on the Loango coast.
22 Apr
1888
Beginning of French administration, Ziguinchor
part of Senegal
colony.
10 Aug
1889
U.K. formally cedes its claims in the area to
France.
18 Jan 1894
Casamance is put under an Administrateur
Supérieur by Senegal.
1 Jun
1907
Casamance is split into two circles: Cercle
de Haute Casamance
(Circle
of Upper Casamance) with a capital Sédihou,
and the
Cercle de Basse Casamance (Circle of Lower
Casamance) with a
capital at Ziguinchor.
14 Mar 1960
Casamance circles are formed into two regions: Region
of the
Casamance (Région de la Casamance) capital
at Ziguinchor, and
Region of Eastern Senegal (Région du
Sénégal Oriental) capital
at Tambacounda.
20 Jun 1960
Part of independent Senegal.
26 Dec
1982
Separatist rebellion begins in the Casamance region.
18 Dec
1983
Demonstrators demand the independence of Casamance.
24 Mar
1984
Casamance region is split into: Kolda Region (Région
de Kolda),
and Ziguinchor Region (Région de Ziguinchor), and
Eastern Senegal
region is renamed Tambacounda Region (Région de
Tambacounda).
7
Apr
1984
Senegal prohibits official use of name "Casamance."
30 Dec 2004
Diamacouné
Senghor signs a peace agreement with Senegal, which
is rejected by
some factions of the MFDC. This division has
deeply
divided Casamance's independence movement.
10 Sep
2008
Sédhiou Region (Région de Sédhiou) split from the
Kolda region,
and Kédougou Region (Région de Kédougou)
split from Tambacounda
region.
Administrateurs Supérieur
18 Jan 1894 – 1896
A. Farque
1896 – 1898
G. Adam
1898 – 1900
Seguin
1900 - c.Jul 1901
Forestier
c.1902 - 1905?
Henri Charles Dominique de
(b. 1860 - d. 19..)
Labretoigne du Mazel
1905 - 19 Jul 1906
Georges Lucien Marie Aubry Lecomte (b. 1859 -
d. 1941)
19 Jul 1906 – 11 May 1908 Guyon
1908 - Jun 1914
Joseph Edmé Charles
Maclaud (b.
1866 - d. 1933)
Jun 1914 –
1917
Richard Edmond Maurice Edouard
(b. 1883 – d. 1958)
Brunot
1917 – 1921
Benquey
1921 –
1924
Gabriel Omer Descemet
(b. 1879 - d. 1961)
c.1926 - c.Jan 1927
Maubert
1928 - c.Apr
1929
Georges Emler
c.Apr 1930 - c.Jul
1931 Fernand? Reynier
193.
Hamon
193. - 1933
Astruc
1933 – 30 Jun
1937 Jean Georges
Charles Albert (b.
1885 – d. 1937)
Chartier
18 Jun 1937 - 4 Oct 1938
Henri Hontarréde
(b. 1886 - d.
1962)
1938 -
1939
Jules Surlemont (acting)
(b. 1897 - d. 1983)
1939
Henri
Carbou
(b. 1882 - d. 1973)
Commandants de Cercle
18 Nov 1939 - af.Oct
1940 Haumant
af.Oct 1940 - 14 Apr 1942
Dumas
14 Apr 1942 - 31 May 1944
Sajous
31 May 1944 –
1947
Claude Michel
(b.
1899 – d. 1977)
1947 –
1948
Romain Paul Marie Cazenave
(b. 1897 - d. 1976)
1948 – 1948
Marc Marie
Joseph Auber
(b. 1898 – d. 19..)
1948 - 1952
....
c.Jul 1952 -
1954
Jules Surlemont
(s.a.)
1954 –
1955
Jacques Victor Mary
(b. 1910 – d. 2001)
195. -
1958
Bernard Follin
1958? - 1960
Paul Arondel
(b. 1894 - d. 1960)
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- 26 Dec
1982 - May 1983
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- MFDC 1983 - 5
Feb 1988
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- MFDC 5 Feb
1988 - 2012
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Secretary-general of the MFDC
1982 - Aug 2001
Abbé
Augustin Diamacouné Senghor (b. 1928 - d. 2007)
MFDC
(23 Dec 1982 - 2 Jan 1988, 14 Jun 1990 - 24 Apr 1990,
19 Mar 1993 - 1993 imprisoned by Senegal;
in Guinea-Bissau exile Jul/Aug 1992 -
19 Mar 1993)
23 Dec 1982 -
Feb 1984 Seven
Members
(acting for Senghor)
- Diédhiou
- Ousmane Tamba
- Bountou Badji
- et. al.
Feb 1984 - Jan
1993 Sidi
Badji (1st time)(interim) (b. 1920? -
d. 2003) MFDC
21 Feb 1993 - 26
May 2003 Sidy Badji (2nd
time)
(s.a.)
MFDC
(interim; in opposition)
Aug 2001 - Nov 2001
Jean-Marie François Biagui
MFDC
2002 - 14 Jan 2007
Abbé Augustin Diamacouné Senghor
(s.a.)
MFDC
Party abbreviation: MFDC
= Mouvement des Forces Démocratiques de le Casamance
(Movement of Democratic Forces of the Casamance,
regionalist, 1947-1960, refounded 1982, separatist,
est. 2,300 troops [2002])
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