A court in Senegal on Monday sentenced a fugitive rebel leader and two other men to life in prison for murder and armed insurrection over a massacre that claimed 14 lives. Cesar Atoute Badiate, head of the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC), a rebel group fighting for autonomy[Read More…]
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Senegal Refugees Crowd Gambian Villages After Separatist Fighting
Stray bullets whistled past Senegalese villager Modou Badjie and his family as they ran through a cashew forest in the middle of the night to reach neighbouring Gambia. Badjie, his three wives, many children and extended family members are among more than 690 people who have crossed the border to[Read More…]
One Senegalese Soldier Killed, Eight Wounded And Several MFDC Bases Destroyed
Senegal’s army said on Tuesday that it had “totally destroyed” several rebel bases belonging to southern separatists, with one soldier killed and eight wounded in the military operation. On 13 March, the army announced that it had launched an operation in the Casamance region of the West African state, aiming[Read More…]
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