[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Terrorist group Al-Qaeda announced Wednesday that it would now include Senegal... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees...
on its attack list.
Senegalese authorities, however, respondend that they would "not yield to any form of threat" emanating from the international terrorist group.
A report quoted by the independent Le Quotidien newspaper in Dakar said the decision by Al-Qaeda stems from Senegal's decision to contribute troops to the Economic Community Of West African States Mission in Mali (Micam).