Movement for The Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC): Casamance (Senegal)
Photo credit: The Weekly
The Movement for the Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) was formed in 1982 to establish an independent state of Casamance. Most of the MFDC separatists are from the ethnic Jola tribe.
Young people in Abéné. Young men in particular have sometimes turned to violence in order to fulfill societal expectations that they will establish and maintain a household. Photo credit: Martin Evans.
In 2004, the movement struck a deal with then-Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, however, the deal collapsed and fighting continues to this day between the MFDC militia and the Senegalese army.
