POPULATION:	6 million
LITERACY RATE:	18%
SELF DEFENSE FORCES:	US Armed Forces
LANGUAGES:	French (official), Wolof, Pulaar, Diola, Mandingo
ETHNIC GROUPS:	Wolof, Fulani, Serere
BORDERING COUNTRIES:	Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania

SENEGAL- Once Senegal had close ties to Europe, especially France, infact up until 2010 Senegal and France remained close friends.  Then after years of conflicts between the rebels from the southern area of the Casamance region led to a final head, and the Senagalese military moved into the area and began a wholesale slaughter.  The U.N. of course opposed this, and stepped in in an attempt to stop the attack.  But the western interference, combined with the threat of military intervention is well remembered by Senegal.  It effectively ended all friendly ties to europe, and when Senegal was petitioned by its anti-western neighbors to join the fight it reluctively at first conceded.

Senegal is now one of the more successful of the independent countries allied against the west, and definately the most organized.  Constant raids into Mauritania and the shooting down of three EDF aircraft have brought Senegal into open conflict with EDF forces, fighting along the Mauritania border for the most part, with infrequent bombing runs by both sides into each others territory.  Senegal it would seem would be outclassed, however they have the money to purchase the latest weapons from China, as well as holding vast supplies of surplus French aircraft, tanks and weapons.