HARDLINE REBEL FACTION MOVES TOWARDS GAMBIAN BORDER
      By The Gambia Journal
      Apr 23, 2006, 17:37

      
Banjul, April 22 The Gambia Journal
   
The Leader of the hard-line faction of the rebel MFDC movement that is fighting to Separate the province of Casamance from Senegal, Salifu Sadio followed by scores of his men have reported to have fled across the province to the border with The Gambia. They had been caught up in intense fighting with Guinea Bissau troops over the past six weeks. Late in February over a hundred of his men attacked a Guinea Bissau army garrison in the border town of San Domingo. The fighting had been among the fiercest between the rebels and the Bissau Government since 1998. BBC's Senegalese correspondent Tijan Sey reported on Saturday, April 22nd, that Mr. Sadio and scores of his men were able to brake free from a village where they had been surrounded for over a month. Senior rebel member Zakaria Goujabi had said last month that were not the "type to be slaughtered like chickens but ones that will fight like lions. When Guinea Bissau's President Vieira visited Mauritania last week he said his troops will "wipe out all Senegalese rebels in our country." Mr. Vieira is seen by many to be fighting a proxy war for the Senegalese government. If the reports of Salifu Sadio's flight to the Gambian border is true, observers here believe, then Gambia-Senegal relations, already on all time low level, are bound to suffer further shocks. Senegalese authorities strongly believe that President Jammeh is in cahoots with his rebel kinsmen.  

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