1. Posted on Monday 2 January 2012 - 09:10

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   Buya Jammeh, AfricaNews reporter in Dakar, Senegal

   In a desperate attempt to draw attention of the world to what many see as one of the longest civil wars in Africa; the people Casamance, Senegal have expressed their disgust through a protest march over the protracted civil war in Southern region of that country.

   

   The move followed attacks organized by the separatist Movement for Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) killing and kidnapping scores of civilian and military personnel in different locations of the region.
   
   Nearly 400 people took to the streets of Mangacounda and Sédhiou village calling on the authorities to scale up security in the area to save them from the violence perpetrated by the separatist Movement for Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC).
   
   ‘There is more violence today than ever before; they ransacked shops and attacked a military contingent during which ten soldiers died we are living in constant fear.’ One of the protesters Landing Danfa told Radio France International (RFI). He call the on the authorities to do more efforts to save the people of Casamance from such dreadful attacks.
   
   Alarm, frustration
   
   According to the Africa review an infuriated Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade recently ordered the country’s armed forces to pursue the fleeing Casamance separatist rebels “everywhere even inside Gambia”.
   
   The order came in the aftermath of a deadly attack by separatist rebels that killed about ten soldiers in the troubled southern Casamance region.
   
   “They could be hiding in the forests and across the border to the Gambia, but pursue them wherever they may be found and let them face the law”, President Wade told the army leadership in Dakar.
   
   President Wade’s order is certain to heighten the already tensed relations with neighbouring Gambia, which the Senegalese government suspects of aiding the Casamance separatists.
   
   Like many other Senegalese, President Wade is of the firm conviction that the MFDC which is fighting for the region’s independence is backed by Gambia and Guinea Bissau.
   
   Gambia’s reaction
   
   In an interview with Radio Television Senegal (RTS) after his audience with the head of state Abdoulaye Wade the Gambia foreign Minister announced that president Jammeh will soon visit Dakar for more talks.
   
   However; barely few months after that agreement President Jammeh granted an interview to 2Stv a Senegalese private television station he saying that his relations with the Senegalese leaves much to be desired.
   
   ‘The problems ''Between the Governments of Senegal and Gambia are more numerous than the solutions. But my hope is that these relations are like those I have with the people,'' President Jammeh emphasized.

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1. Posted on Monday 19 March 2012 13:27

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   lhauri

   

   
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   to bad that they live in this condition. We should make something for them.
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