Cease Fire – 2009

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Cease Fire – 2009

2009

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Violence persisted in 2009 between the MFDC and the government.1 “[T]he region remains plagued by occasional violent crime, political killings, and bouts of fighting between the army and the splintered MFDC,” according to a UN news report.2 Fighting appeared to intensify later in 2009, killing at least 15 Senegalese soldiers.3

  1. “Senegal: Violence Flares Up in Casamance Again,” UN Integrated Regional Information Networks, June 15, 2009.
  2. “Closer to war than to peace?” UN Integrated Regional Information Networks (Nairobi), September 18, 2009.
  3. “Senegal’s PM, chief negotiator air different views on Casamance issue,” Xinhua General News Service, March 29, 2010.