Crossing the river

Since March, fighting has raged between rebels and troops in Senegal's southern Casamance province, driving more than 10,000 refugees across the border. Rebel fighters crossed too: their leader, Salif Sadio, slipped over to evade capture by Guinea Bissau and Senegalese commandos. President Abdoulaye Wade wants to know where Sadio is and Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh will not say.

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Salif Sadio, Guinea Bissau, Yahya Jammeh, Abdoulaye Wade, Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria, Idrissa Seck

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