The Casamance crisis is a historic conflict rooted in Senegal's political history. One of the oldest conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa, it has pitted the Senegalese state against a separatist movement demanding political independence for its region since the 1970s. Like most conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa, this one is characterized by its regional dimension, by the various economic and political motivations of the rebellion, and by the recurrent failures of policies aimed at resolving it...