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Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>Catholic group Sant\u2019Egidio has urged Senegal\u2019s military to end an operation against southern separatists and called for dialogue, after the West African state\u2019s long-simmering conflict reignited last year.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, the army announced that it had launched an operation in the southern region of Casamance, aiming to dismantle bases of Salif Sadio\u2019s rebel MFDC faction.<\/p>\n

The Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) has led a low-intensity separatist conflict in southern Senegal since 1982, which has claimed several thousand lives. However, the Casamance conflict had mostly lain dormant until Senegal launched a major offensive last year designed to drive out the rebels.<\/p>\n

In the latest clash on January 24, four Senegalese soldiers were killed and seven were captured alive and taken across the border to The Gambia. The rebels released the hostages the following month.<\/p>\n

In a statement seen by AFP on Tuesday, Catholic lay association Sant\u2019Egidio called for an \u201cend to the current military operations conducted by the Senegalese army\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Rome-based group has acted as a mediator in the Casamance conflict in the past. It contributed to the release of the captured Senegalese soldiers in February, for example.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is only through reasonable negotiations that a definitive peace will be possible in Casamance,\u201d Sant\u2019Egidio said. Senegalese President Macky Sall has made achieving \u201cdefinitive peace\u201d in Casamance a priority of his second term.<\/p>\n

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