The Casamance conflict is a long-running, low-level war fought between the Senegalese government and the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC). Despite spanning more than 33 years, the ...

Soldiers and police with sniffer dogs destroyed cannabis fields recently in the Casamance region of southern Senegal that ...

(Reuters) - An on-off low-level rebellion in Senegal's Casamance region, now entering its fourth decade, is one of Africa's longest-running insurgencies. An often dormant conflict has picked up in ...

ZIGUINCHOR, Senegal (Reuters) - When he took office in 2000, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade promised to end decades of separatist rebellion in his country's southern Casamance region within his ...