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    reform in 1996, Thiaroye has been divided into independent communes, Thiaroye-Gare, Thiaroye-sur-Mer and Thiaroye-Kao (or Djiddah Thiaroye Kao), with Guinaw-Rail...
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    The Thiaroye massacre (French: Massacre de Thiaroye; pronounced [tja.ʁwa]) was a massacre of French West African veterans of the 1940 Battle of France...
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  • Camp de Thiaroye ([kɑ̃ də tjaʁ.wa]; also known as The Camp at Thiaroye) is a 1988 Senegalese war-drama film written and directed by Ousmane Sembène and...
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    tirailleurs during World War II) Ousmane Sembène, 1988. Camp de Thiaroye (on the Thiaroye insurrection) Army of Africa (France) Chasseurs d'Afrique Colonial...
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  • Thiaroye Arrondissement is an arrondissement of the Pikine Department in the Dakar Region of Senegal. The seat lies at Thiaroye. It is subdivided into...
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    Djidah Thiaroye Kaw Guinaw Rail Nord Guinaw Rail Sud Pikine Est Pikine Nord Pikine Ouest Thiaroye Arrondissement Diamaguène Sicap Mbao Thiaroye-Gare Thiaroye-sur-Mer...
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    Automobile batteries being recycled at the Thiaroye-sur-Mer site where 18 children died of lead poisoning in 2008....
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  • in Thiaroye, a suburb of Dakar, Senegal. She did not receive a regular education from school. She started to work as an apprentice tailor in Thiaroye. She...
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    armies. Dakar Air Base became an important air base. Liberation of France Thiaroye massacre "The Second World War in the French Overseas Empire". Retrieved...
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  • (1981). Sow is best known for the historical drama film Camp de Thiaroye about the Thiaroye massacre near Dakar on December 1, 1944, which he cowrote and...
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    conscripts in the French army mutinied against poor conditions at the Thiaroye camp, on the outskirts of the city. The mutiny was seen as an indictment...
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  • competes in the Heavyweight division of ONE Championship. Kane was raised in Thiaroye sur Mer, a small town outside Dakar. At age 16, Kane started to practice...
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    films include Xala (1975, based on his own novel), Ceddo (1977), Camp de Thiaroye (1987), and Guelwaar (1992). The Senegalese release of Ceddo was strongly...
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    population of 1,170,791. The department includes the villages of Yeumbeul, Thiaroye, Mbao, and Keur Massar Malika. Until the mid-2000s, it also included Guédiawaye...
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    led to several incidents of violence. The most notable of these was the Thiaroye massacre, in 1944, during which the French killed between 35 and 300 (sources...
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    Djidah-Thiaroye Kaw Guinaw Rail Nord Guinaw Rail Sud Pikine Est Pikine Nord Pikine Ouest Niayes Keur Massar Malika [fr] Yeumbeul Nord Yeumbeul Sud Thiaroye Diamaguène...
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    Sarr Date of birth (2002-09-14) 14 September 2002 (age 22) Place of birth Thiaroye, Senegal Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) Position(s) Midfielder Team information...
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    République du Sénégal pour les Lettres, 1990. Le Temps de Tamango, follows Thiaroye, terre rouge (théâtre), first edition Paris: Harmattan, 1981, Prix Bureau...
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  • poem Aube africaine ("African Dawn") as a theatre-ballet based on the Thiaroye massacre. In African Dawn, a young man called Naman complies with the French...
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    River and Chad Basin of West Africa. In 2000 BCE, "Thiaroye Woman", also known as the "Venus of Thiaroye", may have been the earliest statuette created in...
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  • Osmane Ndoye. The Senegalese force comprised a parachute battalion from Thiaroye. The Army currently consists of two divisions, the Operations Division...
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    de résistance de l'armée Resistance during World War II Spanish Maquis Thiaroye massacre Zone libre Grenoble's Saint-Bartholomew Chambard, Claude (1976)...
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    massacre of 1961 List of massacres in Algeria Outside the Law (2010 film) Thiaroye massacre, 1944 Jallianwala Bagh massacre, 1919 African-American veterans...
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    [citation needed] Dakar Colobanne Hann Dalifort Baux-Maraichers Pikine Thiaroye Yeumbeul M'Bao Keur Massar Rufisque PNR Bargny Diamniadio - national stadium...
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  • Director(s) Production country Bona (1980) Lino Brocka Philippines Camp de Thiaroye (1988) Ousmane Sembène, Thierno Faty Sow Senegal, Algeria, Tunisia Compensation...
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  • Cherbourg Jacques Demy France, West Germany World Cinema Project Camp de Thiaroye (1988) Ousmane Sembène and Thierno Faty Sow Senegal, Algeria, Tunisia Tribute...
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    Osmane Ndoye. The Senegalese force comprised a parachute battalion from Thiaroye.[citation needed] 2,200 Europeans and 3,000 Africans were evacuated, while...
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    albums. In 1988, he composes the soundtrack for Ousmane Sembene's Camp de Thiaroye and plays in it. He would also star in Moussa Sene Absa's film Tableau...
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    infrastructure and the development of integrated energy solutions. Hott was born in Thiaroye Gare and spent his youth in the suburbs of Dakar. He completed his primary...
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  • expedition. Camp de Thiaroye 1989 Senegalese film about the struggle for decolonization in French Senegal depicting the Thiaroye massacre. The film was...
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