When was dakar founded

While the colonial planners intended the city to be segregated, that racial division was never explicitly legislated. As a result racial segregation in Dakar was never absolute. Despite this, European settlement was concentrated on a plateau. Additionally, an outbreak of the plague in sparked a panic which led to many natives being driven off the plateau and to new village named Medina. This village was itself soon absorbed into growing Dakar.

Issues of discrimination persisted after independence in as poor neighborhoods were often cleared, under the pretence of health or aesthetics, to make room for new developments. She was not depending on Goree anymore and Jean Alexandre became its first mayor on December 9 Heavy construction and sanitation work was performed. Dakar population reached inhabitants against for Goree. In , the city became the capital of the French West Africa. In , it had a population of , including Europeans.

During this period, a Lebanese-Syrian immigration wave was also observed, which actually started as soon as at Saint Louis. In the capital, those newcomers were integrated through small and medium trade sectors. In Thierry Sabine founded the first Dakar Rally as a race across the Sahara Desert where competitors could compete in anything as long as it had an engine and wheels.

Sabine was inspired to create the Dakar Rally after he found himself lost in the desert, in a separate race the year before. In , the Dakar Rally took its current form with a three-week-long race beginning in Paris and ending in Dakar. A dream for those who stay behind.

Since then, the Paris-Dakar, a unique event sparked by the spirit of adventure, open to all riders and carrying a message of friendship between all men, has never failed to challenge, surprise and excite. Over the course of almost thirty years, it has generated innumerable sporting and human stories.

For the second South American edition of the Dakar, 88 bikes, 14 quads, 57 cars and 28 trucks managed to return to Buenos Aires after a 9,km journey. Cyril Despres picked up a third title in the bike race, whilst Argentinean Marcos Patronelli was victorious in the quad category.

In the car race, Carlos Sainz triumphed at the end of a ferocious and uncompromising struggle with Nasser Al Attiyah. The race was much more relaxed for Vladimir Chagin, who could not stop collecting records as the event went on: he is now tied with Karel Loprais on six titles in the truck category and pushed his total of stage victories up to 56!

The 31st edition of the Dakar, the first one in Latin-America, is now over and has seen the victories of Marc Coma in the bike category, Josef Machacek in the quad category, Giniel De Villiers in the car category and Firdaus Kabirov in the truck category.

In total, bikers, 13 quad riders, 91 car teams and 54 truck teams finished the rally-raid, that was notably marked by the exceptional enthusiasm the Dakar generated amongst the crowds in Argentina and in Chile. After the murder of four French citizens and three Mauritanian soldiers in the previous days before the start and answering the strong recommendation of the French Ministry for Foreign affairs not to go to Mauritania, the edition of the rally was cancelled.

Terrorist acts identified by the French authorities threatened the rally directly.