The famous tough race starts yearly on Europe and ends after 18 difficult driving days in Senegal, Africa. The 300 participants in the contest hope for the excellent field drivers. The participants use various kinds of vehicles including cars, motorcycles and trucks. The ways through the African’s deserts are very difficult hence only third of the beginning participants succeed in arriving to the final point of the race on the Dakar’s beach in Senegal.
Euromilhoes Dakar
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Senegal background and overview
Independent from France in 1960, Senegal was ruled by the Socialist Party for forty years until current President Abdoulaye WADE was elected in 2000. Senegal joined with The Gambia to form the nominal confederation of Senegambia in 1982, but the envisaged integration of the two countries was never carried out, and the union was dissolved in 1989. A southern separatist group sporadically has clashed with government forces since 1982, but Senegal remains one of the most stable democracies in Africa. Senegal has a long history of participating in international peacekeeping.
[Courtesy of The World Factbook]
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