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Matt Protacio
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Kaédi is a large departmental capital along the Senegal River, approximately 350 km from the Atlantic coast. The majority of the population is haal pulaar (lit. speaks pulaar), but there are also substantial Hassaniya, Wolof, and Soninke speaking communities. The city proper has about 30 thousand inhabitants, with another 30 to 40 thousand in the outlying areas. Since I have been here electricity has only gone out a handful of times, and the municipal water supply
seems clean to me. Both DSL and GSM based internet are available. The DSL tends to be very reliable, though the cell network is not. If the XO has a network jack then a DSL connection is possible, if not then the GSM modems are USB based.
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