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Title:Senegal: Wade and the Casamance Dossier
Author:Evans, MartinISNI
Year:2000
Periodical:African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society
Volume:99
Issue:397
Period:October
Pages:649-658
Language:English
Geographic term:Senegal
Subjects:rebellions
separatism
nationalism
Politics and Government
Inter-African Relations
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/723320
Abstract:Since 1982, Senegal's southern limb has witnessed a separatist rebellion by the Mouvement des forces démocratiques de la Casamance (MFDC). Facing the then incumbent President Abdou Diouf's failure to resolve the Casamance crisis after nearly two decades, Abdoulaye Wade stated in his 2000 presidential election campaign that he would make the issue a priority. Crucial to the dynamics of the Casamance conflict is the situation in the region's southern neighbour, Guinea-Bissau, long accused by Dakar of harbouring and supporting the MFDC. Despite an agreement reached between the government and the MFDC in Banjul on 26-27 December 1999, the cease-fire failed to hold. When Wade took office on 19 March 2000, he promised that his first foreign visit would be to Guinea-Bissau to address the Casamance issue, while President Yala of Guinea-Bissau agreed it was 'natural' for Bissau to be involved in any peace process. However, talk was soon overtaken by events, when on 10 April a substantial attack was launched against the Senegalese army post at Saré Waly, on the southern border of Kolda Region, the insurgents coming from Guinea-Bissau. Wade's next round of diplomatic manoeuvres had a wider international dimension. On 16 May he asked the United Nations to place military observers along the border with Guinea-Bissau. Another avenue for Wade has been negotiation with the MFDC itself. Despite these efforts, little would seem to have been achieved in Wade's first months of office. Notes, ref.
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