The Casamance region of Senegal has the ominus reputation of being the theatre of Africa's longest running civil conflict. The economy of the region has suffered, and stigmatization by the rest of Senegal's population remains a reality. In the first part of our series on Casamance, RFI reports from a former leper colony.
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