Senegalese Red Cross Society
National Red Cross Society in Senegal
Senegalese Red Cross Society (French: Croix-Rouge sénégalaise) was established by decree in 1962. It has its headquarters in Dakar.
Despite being a Muslim majority nation, it uses the Red Cross as its symbol for the society.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Senegalese Red Cross Society” as national Red Cross Society in Senegal. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as national Red Cross Society in Senegal. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3003248. VIAF identifies the subject as 44147663125060552645. The Library of Congress control number is no2016134204. Authority coordinates are 14.662, -17.442. 2 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1962.
Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.
- Event chronology
- Institutional context
- Locating named record creators
Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Senegalese Red Cross Society”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Senegalese Red Cross Society primary sources, Senegalese Red Cross Society archive and Senegalese research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Senegalese Red Cross Society”?
- Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
- Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
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This entry incorporates text from “Senegalese Red Cross Society” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.