Senegal: Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance By allowing international mediation, Senegal’s new president has brought fresh hope to one of Africa’s longest-running separatist conflicts By Ricci Shryock As Salatou Sambue travelled around Senegal’s southern Casamance region in 2008, meeting with village leaders and discussing efforts to preserve local fishing stocks, he was constantly worried the West African government would think he was actually plotting an insurgency. “Every time we gathered people together, we were faced with the question: ‘Is the state going to think that we want to rebel against it?’” he said a few years later, after his…
