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Senegal army to pursue rebels into Gambia

An infuriated Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has ordered the
country’s armed forces to pursue the fleeing Casamance separatist
rebels “everywhere even inside Gambia”.

The order comes in the aftermath of a deadly attack on Tuesday 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.

If only temporarily, the incident shifted public attention away from
months of political polarisation as the president gears to contest for
a controversial third mandate which the opposition are insisting is
unconstitutional.

President Wade’s order is certain to heighten the already tense
relations with neighbouring Gambia, which the Senegalese government
suspects of aiding the Casamance separatists.

Last year, Senegal broke diplomatic relations with Iran over an arms
shipment Dakar claimed was intended for the rebels. The shipment was
confiscated in Nigeria.

Military wing

Like many other Senegalese, President Wade is of the firm conviction
that the rebel Movement des Forces Democratique de Casamance (or Mfdc)
which is fighting for the region’s independence is backed by Gambia
and Guinea Bissau.

But since the assassination of the pro-Mfdc Gen Ansoumana Mané of
Guinea Bissau in the late Nineties, Senegal’s suspicion has
increasingly been fixated on the Gambia.

-- 
-Laye
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"With fair speech thou might have thy will,
With it thou might thy self spoil."
--The R.M

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