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Senegal News: Casamance fighting allegedly linked to elections
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Source: IRIN News
BIGNONA, 21 February 2007 (IRIN) - Following three attacks by armed fighters in northern Casamance since the start of presidential election campaigns on 4 February, local government officials and supporters of the candidates are concerned that the rebels are trying to undermine Sunday’s vote.
“Every election, the rebels try to sabotage the election process,” Cheikh Niane, the préfet of the department of Bignona, told IRIN.
Mamadou Diémé a local representative of the ruling Parti Démocratique Sénégalais said everyone is now worried that voting could be disrupted.
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Refugees from Casamance sheltering at an abandoned police station in The Gambia
ZIGUINCHOR, 16 Oct 2006 (IRIN) - Fighting has lulled again between the Senegal army and rebel factions in the restive southern Senegal province Casamance, but analysts say West Africa’s longest running conflict is far from being resolved.
Senegal’s army overran the main base of a faction of rebels it had been fighting since mid-August on 6 October, and there have been three further skirmishes between the army and rebels since then, army spokesman General Abdoulaye Fall told IRIN.
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Senegalese in Casamance fear a return to violence
ZIGUINCHOR, 20 Sep 2006 (IRIN) - Armed rebels looted a convoy of cars on Tuesday morning near the village of Kaparan in the restive Casamance region of southern Senegal, feeding local fears that a new cycle of violence is starting to take hold.
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Senegal News: Rebel leader is dead but peace process may stay alive
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© Tamba Network
Augustin Diamacoune Senghor
ZIGUINCHOR, 15 Jan 2007 (IRIN) - With the death on Sunday of Augustin Diamacoune Senghor, a Roman Catholic priest who lead a separatist movement in the southern Casamance region of Senegal, mediators and experts on the conflict have diverging opinions about how it may effect the on-going peace process.
“The disappearance of Diamacoune could create problems in resolving the Casamance conflict,” said Landing Savané, Senegal’s minister of state and head of the ruling party of President Abdulaye Wade.
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© Emilie Riley/IRIN
Kewe Thiam is the only girl in her village to have completed high school.
KEUR OMAR TOUNKARA, 2 Oct 2006 (IRIN) - Kewe Thiam is the exception to the rule that most Senegalese girls don’t make it to high school.
Sitting with a group of her peers, Thiam’s is the only female hand that shoots up, along with those of a dozen boys, when asked who among them goes to school.
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