Casamance (Senegal)

Democratic Forces Movement of Casamance

Last modified: 2001-12-21 by rob raeside
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Casamance is the SW part of Senegal (the bit located south of Gambia); it used to belong to Portuguese Guinea and some of the separatist claims are based on that fact. The main reason is the ethnical relatedness between the dominant groups of that area, Gambia and NW Bissau-Guinea, quite unrelated to the Wolof people, dominant in Senegal.

• MFDC

• Senegal
• Portuguese Guinea

MFDC

1983 flag
by Jaume Ollé, 27 August 1999

1988 flag
by Jaume Ollé, 27 August 1999

From the Flag Report, 1 January 1997:

CASAMANCE
Information provided by Lucien Philippe.
The Democratic Forces Movement of Casamance ( "Mouvement des Forces democratiques de Casamance" - MFDC) adopted a flag with pretensions of nationalism in May 1983. On 26 December 1982 had been hoisted in Zigunchor a white flag that substituted the Senegalese flag . Through such a white flag the demonstrators meant that the people of Casamance were not wishing the war to be released and obtained the independence in peace.
Lucien Philippe obtained this information from the Mr. Mamadou Nkruma Heal, attached general secretary of the MFDC, representative of the movement in Europe, 28 February 1997 (information related to the flag of the MFDC) and 17 March 1997 (refer