Editing Casamance (section)

===Separatist movement===
{{Further|Casamance conflict}}
[[File:Flag of Casamance (2012).svg|thumb|Flag used by several separatist organisations]]
Though the [[Jola people|Jola]] are the dominant [[ethnic group]] in the Casamance, they represent only 4% of the total population of Senegal. The Jola's sense of economic disenfranchisement within greater Senegal{{citation needed|date=December 2010}}<ref>{{Cite book|last=Programs|first=United States Congress House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l2_TxcVkK5MC&q=casamance+senegal+economic+disenfranchisement+contributed+to+the+found&pg=PA778|title=Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations for 2007: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, Second Session|date=2006|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|isbn=978-0-16-071921-9 |language=en}}</ref> contributed to the founding of a [[separatism|separatist]] movement advocating the [[independence]] or [[autonomous administrative division]] of the Casamance, the [[Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance]] (MFDC), in 1982.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalia.info/en/news/702 |title=New clashes between the Senegalese army and Casamance pro-independence militias |publisher=Nationalia|date=23 March 2010 |access-date=11 April 2010 }}</ref>

The MFDC's armed wing was established in 1985, and in 1990 the [[Casamance conflict]] began: a low-level insurgency led by the MFDC against the government of Senegal. The conflict has been characterized by sporadic violence and frequent but unstable ceasefire agreements. An illegal shipment of weapons hailing from Iran was seized in [[Lagos]], [[Nigeria]] in October 2010, and the Senegalese government suspected the MFDC of having been the intended recipient of the weapons in The Gambia, which had cut ties with Iran the previous month. Senegal recalled its ambassador to [[Tehran]] over the incident.<ref>{{cite news |work=BBC News |date=15 December 2010 |access-date= 15 December 2010 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11998752 |title=Senegal recalls Tehran ambassador over arms shipment}}</ref>