SENEGAL: Help needed for returnees to Casamance

Up to 15,000 displaced people are expected to return to their home villages in Senegal's southern Casamance province this year as a low-level insurgency that has gone on for two decades peters out, but little is being done by the international community to assist them, Refugees International said on Friday. The New York-base pressure group said over 50,000 people had been displaced from their homes as a result of a rebellion by separatist guerrillas in the narrow strip of swampy forested land bounded to the north by Gambia and to the south by Guinea-Bissau.