Senegal signs peace deal with rebels in country’s south

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BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AFP) — Senegal signed an agreement on Thursday with rebels from the country’s south who pledged to lay down their arms and work towards a permanent peace in the home of one of Africa’s oldest active rebellions. Rebel leader Cesar Atoute Badiate, head of a unit of the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC), and an emissary of Senegalese President Macky Sall signed the peace deal in Guinea-Bissau. Sall had made a […]