"A police source says residents of Fanayé village “fought with sticks and machetes” in a disagreement over the project.
Fanayé is in the Senegal River valley, near the Mauritanian border.
According to reports, some villagers were angry that thousands of hectares of land had been given to an Italian investor who wants to grow foodcrops for biofuels.
There are fears this could result in the loss of grazing land and lead to the displacement of villagers"..........READ MORE
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