Court Jails Fugitive Rebel Leader For Life In Senegal
June 14, 2022
6:39 am
A court in Senegal has sentenced a fugitive rebel leader and two other men to life in prison for murder and armed insurrection over a massacre that claimed 14 lives.
Africa Daily News, New York reports that Cesar Atoute Badiate, head of the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC), a rebel group fighting for autonomy in the southern Senegalese region, was sentenced in his absence for the killings.
Omar Ampoi Bodian, another member of the group, and journalist Rene Capain Bassene, received the same sentence, their lawyer Cire Cledor Ly told reporters.
The court in Ziguinchor, the main city …
