  World Refugee Survey 2008 - Senegal  Publisher United States
Committee for Refugees and Immigrants Publication Date 19 June
2008 Cite as United States Committee for Refugees and
Immigrants, World Refugee Survey 2008 - Senegal, 19 June
2008, available at: [accessed 12 March 2014]  SEN figures
Senegal hosted some 23,800 refugees and asylum seekers. Over
20,000 were Mauritanians who, between 1989 and 1991, fled ethnic
persecution. Thousands of Mauritanians lived in two main
settlements, N'dioum and Dodel, and most others lived in some
250 villages and small informal settlements in a 360-mile strip
along the Senegal River valley, bordering Mauritania. Since
1989, tens of thousands returned. In November 2007, Senegal and
Mauritania signed a tripartite agreement with UNHCR for the
return of refugees, which began in January 2008.  Senegal also
hosted refugees and asylum seekers from Liberia, Sierra Leone,
and other countries. There were no camps for non-Mauritanian
refugees.  Refoulement/Physical Protection  The