Senegal Senegal Senegal (; ; ), officially the Republic of Senegal (; ), is a country in West Africa. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania in the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast, and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal also borders The Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of land along the banks of the Gambia River, which separates Senegal's southern region of Casamance from the rest of the country. Senegal also shares a maritime border with Cape Verde. Senegal's economic and political capital is Dakar. The unitary semi-presidential republic is the westernmost country in the mainland of
China–Senegal relations economic phenomena, this is not unique to Senegal. At the 2017 African Development Week, executive secretary of the African Capacity Building Foundation, Emmanuel Nnadoize, noted the importance of Chinese-led skills training on the continent. In 2006, former President Abdoulaye Wade went to Beijing and, later in the year, attended the FOCAC (The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation) summit where senior Chinese military officials began to discuss a track for military cooperation with Senegal. These discussions occurred just one year after Senegal re-established diplomatic relations with China. Since then, Senegal has partnered with Chinese forces in multiple areas, including training exercises and