Senegal Transnational Issues 2015, CIA World Factbook

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Senegal Transnational Issues 2015

SOURCE: 2015 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES

Page last updated on June 20, 2014

Disputes - international:
The Gambia and Guinea-Bissau attempt to stem separatist violence, cross border raids, and arms smuggling into their countries from southern Senegal's Casamance region

Refugees and internally displaced persons:
refugees (country of origin): 13,703 (Mauritania) (2013)
IDPs: up to 24,000 (clashes between government troops and separatists in Casamance region) (2013)

Illicit drugs:
transshipment point for Southwest and Southeast Asian heroin and South American cocaine moving to Europe and North America; illicit cultivator of cannabis

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