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Wade meets MFDC leader, armed men strike again

[Senegal] President Abdoulaye Wade UN
Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade
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    Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade met on Tuesday with The Reverend Augustin Diamacoune, leader of a group fighting for independence for the Casamance area of southern Senegal, news organisations reported. BBC said the meeting in Ziguinchor - the main town in Casamance - was aimed at consolidating peace accords signed last month. It marked the first encounter between the two men since the signing on 16 and 23 March of the agreements between the government and Diamacoune’s Mouvement des forces democratiques de Casamance (MFDC). The MFDC has been fighting for self-rule for Casamance since 1982. The accords have not stopped the insecurity in the area. There have been at least four incidents since the agreements. In the latest, which occurred on Tuesday on a highway 20 km west of Ziguinchor, presumed members of the MFDC hijacked an unknown number of cars belonging to the Parti Socialiste while the party was campaigning for legislative elections on 29 April. The attackers robbed the passengers of all their belongings, AFP reported.

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