Editing Foreign relations of Senegal (section)

=== Senegambian Confederation (1981-89) ===
The [[Senegambia Confederation|Senegambian Confederation]], comprising [[The Gambia]] and Senegal, was established in 1981 and dissolved in 1989. The Confederation was intended to promote security, political, and economic [[Senegambia|unity between the two]] countries, and in the vision of the [[Abdou Diouf|Senegalese government]], an eventual integration of the countries, to which The Gambia resisted.<ref name=":5">{{Cite journal |last=Hughes |first=Arnold |date=1992-07-01 |title=The collapse of the Senegambian confederation |journal=The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics |volume=30 |issue=2 |pages=200–222 |doi=10.1080/14662049208447632 |issn=0306-3631}}</ref> The Confederation's disestablishment was initiated by the abrupt withdrawal of [[Armed Forces of Senegal|Senegalese troops]] from the Gambia, but ultimately was a culmination of multiple factors.<ref name=":5" />