Ouagadougou: After his very first official outing devoted to neighboring Mauritania, on April 18, the new Senegalese president, Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye, went this Saturday to Gambia, a country with which Senegal shares a common border, peoples and cultures.
This visit, explains the Senegalese Press Agency which relies on the opinion of analysts, ‘must serve as an opportunity to send a signal to consolidate peace in Casamance, believe observers of the conflict in this natural region. located in the southern part of Senegal.
Casamance, a region of Senegal separated by the Gambia, is the scene of one of the oldest conflicts in Africa since separatists took to the underground after the repression of a march in December 1982, recalls the APS.
On Thursday, April 18, the Senegalese president traveled to Mauritania for his first official visit since his inauguration to power on April 2. According to the APS, Senegal and Mauritania are linked by good neighborly and cooperative relations, particularly in the j
oint exploitation of gas resources.
Macky Sall, his predecessor, also made his first official visit to the Gambia in April 2012.
Source: Burkina Information Agency