Senegal: Some 4,500 displaced by clashes

Fighting between Guinea Bissau troops and Senegalese separatists has forced more than 4,500 people to flee their homes in the past several days, humanitarian officials have said. Since Thursday last week, the Guinea Bissau military have been bombarding rebels from Movement of the Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) in the area of Sao Domingo, a city just inside the Guinea Bissau border whose entire civilian population has fled. Entire towns and villages on in the border region are deserted after internal fighting within the MFDC spilled into Guinea Bissau last week.