including the Casamance River. It consists of the Lower Casamance (Basse Casamance, Baixa Casamança—i.e. Ziguinchor Region) and the Upper Casamance (Haute Casamance...
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The Casamance conflict is an ongoing low-level conflict that has been waged between the Government of Senegal and the Movement of Democratic Forces of...
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The Casamance Creole or Cacheu-Ziguinchor Creole also Portuguis Creole is a Portuguese-based creole language that is considered a dialect of Guinea-Bissau...
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The Casamance River (French: Fleuve Casamance) flows westward for the most part into the Atlantic Ocean along a path about 200 miles (320 km) in length...
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Casa Sports (redirect from Casamance Sports)
stadium is Stade Aline Sitoe Diatta. It is the most popular sports club in Casamance, the first four letters of the area gives the name to the club, the short...
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banks of the Gambia River, which separates Senegal's southern region of Casamance from the rest of the country. Senegal also shares a maritime border with...
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Democratic Forces of Casamance (French: Mouvement des forces démocratiques de Casamance; MFDC) is the main separatist movement in the Casamance region of Senegal...
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include Soninke, and Mandinka. Jola (Diola) is a main language in the Casamance region. The Guinea Creole dialect, based on Portuguese is also spoken...
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Senegal, mainly in the region of Casamance, a former Portuguese colony, which is known as Portuguis Creole or Casamance Creole. Creole is the majority language...
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Basse Casamance National Park (French: Parc National de la Basse Casamance), located near Oussouye in Ziguinchor, is one of six national parks in Senegal...
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Ziguinchor Region (redirect from Basse Casamance)
regions). The region is also referred to historically and popularly as Basse Casamance. Ziguinchor region is divided into 3 departments: Bignona Département...
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settled point on the north bank of the Casamance River mouth in southern Senegal. As the first place on the Casamance at which the flag of colonial France...
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Fogny is a village in the Casamance region of Senegal. The village is located on the Casamance River. Assane Seck (born 1919), politician Christian Roche...
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link] "Des verts de la Casamance aux Blues londoniens, la fulgurante ascension de Nicolas Jackson" [From the greens of Casamance to the London Blues, the...
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Jola people (category Casamance)
small villages scattered throughout Senegal, especially in the Lower Casamance region. The main dialect of the Jola language, Fogni, is one of the six...
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in Upper Casamance and is slightly lower in Lower and Middle Casamance. The calving interval is 16 to 17 months in Middle and Upper Casamance and roughly...
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(Kuwaataay), spoken along the coast south of the Casamance River. Karon–Mlomp Karon, spoken along the coast of Casamance south of Diouloulou. Mlomp Central Jola...
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spoken by the Mandinka people of Guinea, northern Guinea-Bissau, the Casamance region of Senegal, and in The Gambia where it is one of the principal...
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(retroactively called Middle Casamance) is a region of Senegal located in the southwest of the country in the natural region called Casamance. It was historically...
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Casamancian Autonomous Movement (redirect from Casamance Autonomist Movement)
(in French: Mouvement Autonome Casamançais) was a political party in Casamance, southern Senegal. MAC was led by Assane Seck. MAC was initially linked...
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Under Yahya Jammeh, The Gambia was also backing up rebels of MFDC in Casamance in southern Senegal. The subsequent worsening of the human rights situation...
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village located in the extreme south-west of Senegal, in the mouth of the Casamance River. This relatively recent geological formation consists of a shoal...
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kingdom of Kasa, also known as Kasanga, was the dominant kingdom in lower Casamance (now Senegal) during the 15th and 16th centuries. Many of the inhabitants...
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Kumpo (category Casamance)
with Samay, and the Niasse) in the mythology of the Diola people in the Casamance (Senegal) and in Gambia. Multiple times in the course of the year, i.e...
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2010–2011 Others Guinea-Bissau Civil War (1998–1999) Guinea clashes (2013) Casamance conflict (1982–present) 2016–2017 Gambian constitutional crisis ECOWAS...
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about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) south-east of Sédhiou, on the banks of the Casamance River. In 2018, the population was 20,454. Sadio Mané who is a footballer...
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People Casamance Ethnic group: Diola Proposed state: Republic of Casamance Militant organization: Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance Somaliland...
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Ziguinchor (category Casamance)
Ziguinchor Region, and the chief town of the Casamance area of Senegal, lying at the mouth of the Casamance River. It has a population of over 230,000 (2007...
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an inverse estuary are Spencer Gulf, South Australia, Saloum River and Casamance River, Senegal. Estuary type varies dramatically depending on freshwater...
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the coast and in river estuaries of the Senegal, Saloum, Gambia, and Casamance rivers, burial mounds with clusters of shells often referred to as middens...
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