Fighting in Senegal's Casamance Province Drives Thousands to Gambia: UN Agency

More than 2,200 people have fled to Gambia in the past few days following an upsurge of fighting in the neighbouring Senegalese province of Casamance, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said in a statement issued today in Geneva. The first group of refugees reportedly crossed into southern Gambia on 18 May.