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Bamako was noted as a centre for Islamic studies in the Mali empire of medieval times, but had declined to the size of a village by the time of French colonization in 1880. Regrowth of the city was stimulated by the opening of the railway to Dakar in 1904 and by its designation as the capital of French Sudan in 1905. When the country became independent in 1960, Bamako remained the capital.
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Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XOF); note - responsible authority is the Central Bank of the West African States
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4,200 km. Nigeria / Mali / Niger / Algeria / Guinea / Cameroon / Burkina Faso / Côte d'Ivoire / Benin / Chad
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French Sudan was a colony in French West Africa that had two separate periods of existence, first from 1890 to 1899, then from 1920 to 1960, when the territory became the independent nation of Mali.
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Also Ecuador, Colombia, Sao Tome & Principe, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Maldives and Kiribati.
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The city is known as Muqdisho in Somali. Mogadishu was established by Arab immigrants from the Persian Gulf, and was one of the earliest in the long range of Arab settlements all over the East African coast. In 1960 Somalia achieved independence with Mogadishu as its capital.
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