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Jumia is a marketplace, logistics service and payment service, operating throughout Africa. The logistics service enables the delivery of packages through local partners while the payment services facilitate the payments of online transactions. [1] It has partnered with more than 100,000 sellers and individuals. [2]
Jumia Travel is an online travel agency that operates in Africa. It offers hotel bookings, flight reservations, and tourism packages. Learn more about its history and services on Wikipedia.
Dakar (/ dɑːˈkɑːr, dæ -/ UK also: / ˈdækɑːr /; [4] French: [dakaʁ]; Wolof: Ndakaaru) [5] is the capital and largest city of Senegal. The department of Dakar has a population of 1,278,469, and the population of the Dakar metropolitan area was at 4.0 million in 2023. Dakar is situated on the Cap-Vert peninsula, the western-most point of mainland Africa. [6] Cap-Vert was colonized by ...
Senegal, [ e ] officially the Republic of Senegal, [ f ] is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal nearly surrounds The Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of ...
African Renaissance Monument. The African Renaissance Monument (French: Monument de la Renaissance Africaine) is a 52 m (171 ft) tall bronze statue located on top of one of the twin hills known as Collines des Mamelles, outside Dakar, Senegal. Built overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in the Ouakam suburb, the statue was designed by the Senegalese ...
The economy of Senegal is driven by mining, construction, tourism, fishing and agriculture, which are the main sources of employment in rural areas, despite abundant natural resources in iron, zircon, gas, gold, phosphates, and numerous oil discoveries recently. Senegal's economy gains most of its foreign exchange from fish, phosphates ...
The history of Senegal is commonly divided into a number of periods, encompassing the prehistoric era, the precolonial period, colonialism, and the contemporary era.
The Dakar Grand Mosque (Arabic: المسجد الكبير في داكار, French: Grande Mosquée de Dakar) is one of the most important religious buildings in Dakar, Senegal. It is situated on Allée Pape Gueye Fall.