Small But Dangerous

From: The World Today | Date: August 1, 2004| Author: Evans, Martin | Copyright information

Few of the European holidaymakers seeking winter sun in The Gambia can be aware that West Africa's longest-running civil conflict rumbles on just a few kilometres south of the tourist beaches. Across the border in Casamance - Senegal's southern limb, largely separated from the rest of the country by The Gambia - the conflict is in its twenty-second year. At a time when protracted civil wars elsewhere in Africa have reached some sort of conclusion - in Sudan, except for ongoing strife in Darfu...

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