What reduced the Front Sud to this are the same changes that diminished the equally fearsome Front Nord close to Gambia and led by the redoubtable Salif Sadio: a change of government (AC Vol 55 No 17 Taking a chance on Casamance)...
Today the movement consists of a few dozen men clustered around the rebel leader Salif Sadio who are hiding in the forests near Bignona from which they emerge to stage armed robberies abduct people and steal food...
Vol 58 No 25 |
- SECESSIONISM
Although the leader of the MFDC Salif Sadio declared a unilateral ceasefire in 2014 after talks with Macky Sall's government at the Vatican the rebels continue to operate and in 2017 defied the Economic Community of West African States' intervention in Gambia by siding with forces loyal to the then President Yahya Jammeh...
Different factions of the MFDC criticised them heavily for relying too much on veteran commander Salif Sadio who is seen by his rivals as a dangerous self-promoting maverick...
• Salif Sadio the oldest surviving guerrilla leader now leads the Front nord (Northern Front)...
Vol 47 No 25 |
- GAMBIA
- SENEGAL
Rebel fighters crossed too: their leader Salif Sadio slipped over to evade capture by Guinea Bissau and Senegalese commandos...
This happened at Guidel south-east of Ziguinchor said to be the power base of Salif Sadio leader of a faction opposing the peace process...
The Senegalese armed forces have since staged a series of offensives supposedly targeting the forces of Salif Sadio the hardline opponent of Abbé Augustin Diamacoune Senghor who signed the peace accord on behalf of the Mouvement des Forces Démocratiques de la Casamance in March...
Mane was Mandinka of Gambian origin and the patron of the hardest-line elements of the MFDC's Front Sud led by Salif Sadio...
Alive or dead Salif Sadio has lost out...
Diola are the backbone of the uprising (though the hawkish leader of the southern front of the Mouvement des Forces Démocratiques de la Casamance Salif Sadio is a Malinke-influenced Balante)...