Dakar rejects referendum on CasamanceSenegal has rejected a suggestion by Guinea Bissau's caretaker Prime Minister Francisco Fadul for a referendum for self-rule in the southern Casamance area. Dakar dismissed the idea as "a flagrant and unacceptable
interference" in the country's affairs, PANA reported.
Fadul, in a message to the government in Dakar, the Senegalese capital, said the referendum was one way of ending the civil war waged by guerrillas of the Mouvement des forces democratiques de Casamance (MFDC).
But PANA said the Senegalese Ministry of Communication had branded Fadul's suggestion as contrary to "the rules of good neighbourliness which Senegal has always gone all-out of to maintain with Guinea Bissau".
Until recently, tension was high between Fadul's backers, the Military Junta, and Dakar which had sent troops to back President Vieira against Mane's rebellion.
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