Casamance ConflictSenegal · 1982–ongoing“A thread from the great cord of two hundred and fifty. Hold it while I speak.”Look at the map and see the joke geography played: The Gambia lies across Senegal like a finger over a mouth, and below the finger sits Casamance — green where the north is dry, forgotten where the north is favoured. In 1982 the MFDC raised the question by force.