'We took our children and ran': thousands displaced as Senegal's 40-year war crosses border
More than 6,ooo people have left their homes as renewed violence in the Casamance region spills into the Gambia
Villagers meet in Kaimo Karanai, near the Gambia’s border with Senegal, to discuss the latest refugee crisis.
Nick Roll in West Coast region, the Gambia
Tue 29 Mar 2022 01.30 EDT
It was late morning when the bullets burst through the corrugated roof of Maimouna Kujabee’s farmhouse. First, she hit the ground. Then she took off, running from her village in Ziguinchor, in Senegal’s Casamance region, as fast as her children could manage.
Through fields and forest, with only the clothes on her back, Kujabee did not stop until she reached Bajagar, in the Gambia, about a mile north of the border. “The sun was hot. I ran until my sandals were cut up,” says Kujabee.
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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/mar/29/we-took-our-children-and-ran-thousands-displaced-as-senegals-40-year-war-crosses-border
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Also today’s Democracy Now story about US treatment of Haitian and South American refugees.