Armed men made off with cash and vehicles, including one belonging to the UN’s Children’s Agency UNICEF, after staging a highway robbery in the troubled Casamance region of Senegal. Casamance is separated from the rest of Senegal by a sliver of land that makes up the Gambia and has endured a two decade long secessionist rebellion by the Movement for the Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) that had waned until factional fighting spilled into neighbouring Guinea Bissau last month. Full Story