Bofal is a small town in southern Mauritania. There are phosphate deposits in the vicinity. It lies near the southern border formed by the Senegal River
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In 2007, it was proposed to build a railway from Bofal to the coast at Nouakchott to export the phosphate.[1] There are adjacent phosphate deposits in Senegal.
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- ^ i. Foster ii. Butterfield iii.Chen iiii. Pushak, i. Vivien ii. William iii. Chuan iiii. Nataliya (2009). Building Bridges: China’s Growing Role as Infrastructure Financier for Africa [Building Bridges: China’s Growing Role as Infrastructure Financier for Africa] (1st ed.). World Bank. p. 33. ISBN 9780821375549.
16°25′00″N 13°48′00″W / 16.41667°N 13.80000°W
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