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    Separatists of southern Senegal's troubled Casmance region will meet in neighbouring Gambia soon to devise a strategy for peace talks with the government, Reuters reported on Friday. In a dispatch quote Abbe Diamacoune Senghor, leader of the Mouvement des forces democratiques de Casmance (MFDC), it said he had told a news conference that the aim was to agree on a united strategy for the talks. He said that various factions of the movement recognised him as the "sole" leader of the MFDC. The MFDC took up arms in 1982. Diamacoune held talks with Senegalese President Abdou Diouf in January and both men have repeatedly called for dialogue to secure a peaceful settlement in a conflict that has claimed hundreds of lives.

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