title: Kabrousse
text: # Kabrousse
  
  Kabrousse (also spelled Cabrousse) is a village in the rural community of Diembéring, Oussouye, Ziguinchor, Casamance, Senegal. It is a coastal village located a few kilometers south of Cap Skirring. In a straight line, it is the closest place in Africa to South America (2,841 km from Touros, Rio Grande do Norte in northeastern Brazil). About 2 km southeast of Kabrousse is the international border with Guinea-Bissau.
  
  ## Geography
  
  ### Notable inhabitants
  
  Aline Sitoe Diatta, the leader of a resistance movement against French West Africa, was born in Nialou in 1920.
  
  