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Casamance: Five soldiers injured in fighting against MFDC rebels

Senegal’s media is reporting that the security operations in North Sindian have resumed. According to Rfm, fighting is currently raging in the natural region of Casamance between the army and elements of Salif Sadio’s faction of the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC). Rfm reports that the army has […]

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Senegal’s Second World War combatants return from France

The remaining Senegalese combatants of the Second World War have returned from France. The war veterans were on Friday received by President Macky Sall at the Presidential Palace in Dakar. He also decorated the veterans in the presence of military and service chiefs, diplomats, and cabinet ministers. The veterans also […]

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Macky Sall appoints first female General in the Senegalese Army

The Senegalese president Macky Sall has promoted Colonel Fatou Fall (a doctor in the Senegalese Army) to the rank of Brigadier General on Tuesday. According to Seneweb, this information was announced by the Minister of Armed Forces Sidiki Kaba. “The head of state has appointed to the rank of general […]