GUINEA-BISSAU-SENEGAL: Assassinations Breed Uncertainty In Neighbouring Casamance -- IRIN NewsDAKAR, 5 March 2009 (IRIN) - The recent assassinations of Guinea-Bissau’s president and army chief have cast a deep uncertainty over Senegal’s restive Casamance region, where a decades-long separatist struggle has been heavily influenced by Bissau politics, analysts say.
On 2 March President João Bernardo Vieira was shot dead, hours after a rocket attack killed Army Chief of Staff Tagme Na Wai. Guinea-Bissau officials have insisted the presidential assassination was not a coup, and on 3 March Guinea-Bissau swore in the parliament speaker Raimundo Pereira as interim leader and insisted it will maintain civilian rule.
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Update: Guinea-Bissau killings worry neighboring Senegal -- Energy Publisher
My Comment: It appears that South America's drug culture and violence is now being exported to Africa. If this is the case, it makes the problems that Africa has many times worse..