Travel Guide Ndioum

This city is accessible a short distance from Tarédji by the RN2. It is located on a non-floodable area on the right bank of the Doué, an arm of the Senegal River. Temperatures are beginning to rise there (35°C on average), but a stopover or a longer stopover would not be a bad idea, before the mercury flirts with the thermometer heights. The harmattan-swept town has become a crossroads since the construction of the asphalt road across the Fouta River, which seems to resist the large vehicles now using it. Try to spend a Monday there, a big market day, to appreciate the excitement. Ndioum is also one of the localities in Senegal home to several hundred Mauritanians who fled their country in 1989 during a border conflict between the two countries. More than 60,000 Mauritanians left their country for Senegal and Mali. Between 2008 and 2012, repatriation convoys have been organized by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) allowing more than 24,000 of them to return to their country of origin and their families. According to UNHCR, some 14,000 Mauritanians are in Senegal and fewer than 6,000 in neighbouring Mali. The question of their political status remains unclear today. Here you will find a cash dispenser in the Ndiolofène neighbourhood, opposite the N2 road. To get around the city, vehicles regularly leave from the Tarédji crossroads, costing about 500 FCFA.