Senegambia Confederation
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The Gambia, a nation that’s almost entirely surrounded by Senegal, teamed up with Senegal in the 1980s to form the Senegambia Confederation, a soft merger of the two countries designed to promote cooperation and trade.
In 1989, after The Gambia had cold feet about creating an official union, the Senegambia Confederation was officially dissolved.