Senegalese Refugees Flee to Gambia After Separatist Disaster

The displacement is because of a senegalese navy operation towards rebels in casamance who’re preventing for independence. Stray bullets whistled previous senegalese villager modou badjie and his household as they ran by means of a cashew forest in the course of the evening to achieve neighbouring gambia. Badjie, his three wives, many youngsters and prolonged members of the family are amongst greater than 690 individuals who have crossed the border to flee a flare-up in preventing between troopers and separatists in senegal’s southern casamance area, in line with authorities figures.“their pictures may have hit one among us,” badjie stated within the gambian village of upert, some 4 kilometres (three miles) from the border, the place the household took shelter in march. “individuals ran away due to the preventing and left all their belongings behind,” he stated. “we misplaced the whole lot and are very drained.” On march 13, the senegalese navy launched an operation towards rebels...