[ noun ] the capital and chief port and largest city of Senegal <noun.location>
A few hundred Mauritanians were flown home to Nouakchott after the earlier violence, but many others had been gathered at the Dakar fairgrounds to await repatriation.
The two men were sent back to Libya on Thursday, according to official spokesmen in Dakar.
Nouakchott is 375 miles north of Dakar.
The Dakar region remains under state of emergency laws, and a nighttime curfew remains in effect.
In Dakar, many women and children sought refuge in the Mauritanian Embassy, Ambassador Mokhtar Ould Zamel said.
And it's brought the 27-year-old and his ebullient 12-member band, the Super Etoile de Dakar, here as the exotic opening act on Gabriel's sold-out tour.
Armored personnel carriers mounted with machine guns blocked major entrances near the opposition party headquarters and to the University of Dakar, where dozens of people were arrested today during clashes with police.
An estimated 20,000 Mauritanians were being held under army protection at a fairground outside Dakar, awaiting a flight home. About 6,000-7,000 Senegalese were harbored by the Mauritanian Red Crescent at a Nouakchott mosque and an exhibition hall.
In riot-torn sections of Dakar and in the industrial city of Thies about 45 miles away, Senegalese young and old angrily denounced what they saw as police brutality and violation of their rights this week.
Harlem Desir, president of SOS-Racism, flew to Dakar Friday in the private jet of Senegalese President Abdou Diouf to be present for the Dakar concert where Zaire's Kanda Bongo Man and Jamaica's the Wailers were among the performers.
Harlem Desir, president of SOS-Racism, flew to Dakar Friday in the private jet of Senegalese President Abdou Diouf to be present for the Dakar concert where Zaire's Kanda Bongo Man and Jamaica's the Wailers were among the performers.
Senegalese angered by violence against their countrymen in neighboring Mauritania attacked Mauritanians in Dakar on Friday, killing at least 20 people, officials said.
France, the former colonial ruler of Senegal, announced Saturday in Paris that it was furnishing five planes to airlift the Mauritanians to their home and return to Dakar Senegalese hiding out in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott.
He was appointed archbishop of Dakar, Senegal, in 1955 and was succeeded in the post by a native Senegalese, now Cardinal Hyacinthe Thiandoum, whom he had ordained.