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Article: Seven-year itch. (Senegambia) (International)

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August 26, 1989
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Senegambia

Seven-year itch

THE shotgun wedding between Senegal and the Gambia, in 1982, was meant to create the "confederation of Senegambia". The marriage was never consummated, and now, amid abuse, Senegal is pulling out the troops it put in to protect its little neighbour's president, and at the same time hurting the Gambians' pride.

Senegal is a huge but largely desert nation, proud of its French tradition yet divided by the Gambia, a riverside sliver of former British territory led, since 1962, by Sir Dawda Jawara. Logic says the two should unite. So do the Senegalese; but they kept scrupulously out until 1981. That year, while Sir Dawda ...

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