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Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Senegal was initially Dutch and Portuguese, then British until taken over by France in 1677. In the heyday of the French Empire, Dakar had the importance of Bierut and Hanoi. Senegal became independent of France in 1960. Dakar itself was founded as a French fort in 1857