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On Tuesday the Senegalese army said it took three rebel “bases” in the restive southern region Casamance and recovered weapons during an offensive launched in late January after months of a lull in the long-standing conflict.
Officers of the Senegalese army took the press for a rare visit to two of these cantonments, shelters of tin and wood scattered under tall trees in the forest of Blaze and sheltering some kind of buried bunkers that can shelter a few people.
According to Senegalese officers, the surroundings of these “bases” were punctuated with burnt surfaces, traces of the fighting .
The “bases”, relatively intact, belonged to the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC), which has been leading an armed independence rebellion since 1982, said Colonel Souleymane Kandé, the local head of the Senegalese army.
They were captured after artillery fire, preceding the assault by ground forces supported by planes and helicopters, said an anonymous officer who said he participated in the fighting.
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The Senegalese army provided no indication of losses on either side, and no assessment of the human toll is otherwise available from a reliable and independent source.
