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Current Feed ContentSENEGAL: Villagers mutilated by armed men in CasamanceArmedmen claiming to represent the rebel group Movement of Democratic Forcesof Casamance (MFDC) attacked twenty villagers from Tampe 15 km east ofthe regional capital Ziguinchor on 7 May and hacked each of their leftears with machetes, according to the victims and the Senegalese army. MalangSane, one of the victims, said he and his companions were collectingcashew nuts in the forest when approximately 20 armed men approachedthem and started to attack them. He is currently receiving treatment...SENEGAL: Rebels act on kidnap threats in CasamanceRebels belonging to the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) kidnapped 16 villagers in Bissine, 64 km east of Ziguinchor near the Guinea-Bissau border on 16 March before releasing them two days later, according to different local sources. The villagers had returned to the site of their village, destroyed in the ongoing violence in Casamance, to weed the land, according to Moustapha Bassène, a representative from the Committee of Wise Men which has been involved in the Casamance...SENEGAL: Neither war nor peace in Casamance after 25 yearsThe assassination of the presidential peace envoy to Senegal’s troubled Casamance region in December will not derail the peace process, government officials say, yet according to observers the peace process is dragging and 25 years after the start of the secessionist rebellion the region remains in a state of neither war no peace. "In a way it makes sense for the government just to wait until the [secessionist] movement fizzles out," said Vincent Foucher, a researcher at the Centre d'étude... |
