Les Casamançais sont «fatigués»

Happening paradoxically in a country considered as a model pupil of the West, the Casamance conflict is at this stage the conflict that has lasted longest on the African continent — a total of 20 years. It is a conflict of «low intensity» and of rather limited territorial extension, but which at the...

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Main Author: Jean-Claude Marut
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Universitário de Lisboa 2002-06-01
Series:Cadernos de Estudos Africanos
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cea/1260
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description Happening paradoxically in a country considered as a model pupil of the West, the Casamance conflict is at this stage the conflict that has lasted longest on the African continent — a total of 20 years. It is a conflict of «low intensity» and of rather limited territorial extension, but which at the same time is highly complex: for one side, it is a liberation war, for the other, a civil war or even e mere operation meant to maintain public order — and all this against the background of social mobilisation where the main cleavages are marked by social identities, of rivalries between (neighbouring and other) states, and of a destabilisation of the whole sub-region. Today the people of the Casamance are tired of the conflict, but have by no means forgotten that «the Senegalese» have before «tired them badly».
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spelling doaj-art-fc2f9dfe6a024e3c92c6587a3e4e65ac2025-08-20T03:48:07ZengInstituto Universitário de LisboaCadernos de Estudos Africanos1645-37942182-74002002-06-012254210.4000/cea.1260Les Casamançais sont «fatigués»Jean-Claude MarutHappening paradoxically in a country considered as a model pupil of the West, the Casamance conflict is at this stage the conflict that has lasted longest on the African continent — a total of 20 years. It is a conflict of «low intensity» and of rather limited territorial extension, but which at the same time is highly complex: for one side, it is a liberation war, for the other, a civil war or even e mere operation meant to maintain public order — and all this against the background of social mobilisation where the main cleavages are marked by social identities, of rivalries between (neighbouring and other) states, and of a destabilisation of the whole sub-region. Today the people of the Casamance are tired of the conflict, but have by no means forgotten that «the Senegalese» have before «tired them badly».https://journals.openedition.org/cea/1260conflictidentityCasamanceSenegal
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title Les Casamançais sont «fatigués»
title_full Les Casamançais sont «fatigués»
title_fullStr Les Casamançais sont «fatigués»
title_full_unstemmed Les Casamançais sont «fatigués»
title_short Les Casamançais sont «fatigués»
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