Sedhiou Region

Sédhiou occupies Upper Casamance where the post-conflict recovery that the 2022 peace agreement enabled proceeds unevenly—demining operations continuing while displaced populations gradually return. The region's agricultural potential, long constrained by insecurity, represents development opportunity that four decades of conflict suppressed.

Agriculture forms the most developed economic sector, expanding as security permits. The fertile soils that make Casamance Senegal's most productive agricultural zone can support fruit, vegetable, and rice cultivation once landmines and ordnance are cleared from previously abandoned areas.

Civil society coordination through COSCPAC links Sédhiou with Kolda, Ziguinchor, and cross-border partners in Guinea-Bissau and Gambia. This regional approach recognizes that Casamance's geography—separated from northern Senegal by the Gambia—requires coordination that national boundaries complicate. Whether post-conflict development materializes—or whether Sédhiou remains marked by decades of displacement—depends on investment that peace creates conditions for but does not guarantee.