Les Casamançais sont «fatigués»
Happening paradoxically in a country considered as a model pupil of the West, the Casamance conflict is at this stage the conflict that has lasted longest on the African continent — a total of 20 years. It is a conflict of «low intensity» and of rather limited territorial extension, but which at the...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
2002-05-01
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| Series: | Cadernos de Estudos Africanos |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/cea/1260 |
| Summary: | Happening paradoxically in a country considered as a model pupil of the West, the Casamance conflict is at this stage the conflict that has lasted longest on the African continent — a total of 20 years. It is a conflict of «low intensity» and of rather limited territorial extension, but which at the same time is highly complex: for one side, it is a liberation war, for the other, a civil war or even e mere operation meant to maintain public order — and all this against the background of social mobilisation where the main cleavages are marked by social identities, of rivalries between (neighbouring and other) states, and of a destabilisation of the whole sub-region. Today the people of the Casamance are tired of the conflict, but have by no means forgotten that «the Senegalese» have before «tired them badly». |
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| ISSN: | 1645-3794 2182-7400 |