Kabiline

Kabiline is a large village in the Bignona Department of the Ziguinchor Region of southwestern Senegal. In 2002 the village had a population of 3258 people.[1] Surrounded by rivers, it is connected by a road which leads to the N5 road, which connects it directly to the district seat of Diouloulou in the northwest.[2]

Kabiline
Village
Kabiline Location in Senegal
Coordinates: 12°58′0″N 16°33′24″W
Country	Senegal
Region	Ziguinchor
Department	Bignona
Arrondissment	Kataba
Commune	Djinaki
Population  (2002)
• Total	3,258
Time zone	UTC+0 (GMT)

In 1982 a group named Entente Kabiline emerged in the village.[3] In the early 1990s several people were murdered in Kabiline, including Kalifa Didhiou, a former political prisoner, and Famara Mary, a peasant farmer who was executed on 24 June 1990 by soldiers.[4]

The village contains Kabiline Primary School.[5]

References

1. "Localité de Kabiline". PEPAM. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
2. Google (10 September 2016). "Kabiline" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
3. Bosc, Pierre-Marie (2005). A la croisée des pouvoirs: une organisation paysanne face à la gestion des ressources : Basse Casamance, Sénégal (in French). IRD Editions. p. 157. ISBN 978-2-87614-601-3.
4. Senegal: an escalation in human rights violations in Casamance region. Amnesty International U.S.A. 1991. pp. 1979–1982.
5. State of the World's Children: Celebrating 20 Years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. UNICEF. 2009. p. 35. ISBN 978-92-806-4442-5.