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Aku_pickin
Christmas Island
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 Posted - 03 Dec 2006 : 03:31:20
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This article is from The Gambia Journal (www.thegambiajournal.com):
http://www.thegambiajournal.com/artman/publish/article_609.shtmlDaily News
Cool It Down On Casamance By Mbaye B. Sarr & Mohammed L. Sillah
Dec 1, 2006, 18:16
President Jammeh on Thursday 30th November received a special envoy of President Abdoulie Wade of Senegal at State House in Banjul. The envoy, Sheikh Tidiane Gadio, who is also Senegal’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, later told reporters that he had delivered a special message from the Senegalese leader. Mr. Gadio also said that it was important that two countries that are neighbors hold regular consultations. Mr. Gadio’s statement was perhaps addressing the surprise he saw on the faces of reporters. The Senegalese Foreign Minister is the third special envoy to be received by President Jammeh in less than ten days. Last week, the Senegalese Justice Minister came with a “special message” just days after the Chief of Staff of the Senegalese Armed forces who also said he came carrying a special message. After meeting with the Senegalese Army Chief, Jammeh was shown on TV delivering his trade-mark tirades on the need for peace and African unity. He denied what he called malicious rumors that he was aiding and abetting the wanted Senegalese rebel leader, Salifou Sadio.
In fact many observers think that is the issue lying behind the recent spate of special messages being sent from the Senegalese Capital. The authorities in Dakar strongly believe that President Jammeh is heavily involved with the secessionist rebels’ activities in the Senegalese southern province of Casamance. Jammeh himself belongs to the ethnic group as the rebels across the border. Some even claim that he was born in that are of Senegal before his parents moved over to The Gambia in the sixties. The rebels who have been fighting a twenty-year war to get the province separated from Senegal, but hardliners among them say they want a Greater Kaabu federation consisting of the province, Guinea Bissau and The Gambia. Attempts by the Gambian leader to act as mediator in the crisis, in the late nineties, were rebuffed by President Wade as soon as he came into office in April 2000. A 1999 peace deal signed by a faction of the rebel MFDC, broke the movement into acrimonious factions. Earlier in February, this year, the Guinea Bissau Army succeeded in dislodging a hard-line faction from its territory. After months of fighting, Salifou Sadio, the faction’s leader, was able to break free from a siege and escaped into The Gambia with about a hundred men. Since then fighting along the border has escalated driving many refugees into The Gambia. The urgent question in the mind of the suspicious Senegalese authorities is where is Salifou Sadio?
There have been lots of diverse speculations as to what happened to Mr. Sadio and his whereabouts. There have been insinuations that Salifou Sadio was smuggled out in the guise of Ivory Coast’s President Bagbo’s men when they departed from Banjul at the end of the Banjul AU Summit in July.
Whatever might have happened, things do not look like the way they should between the two sisterly countries. The Gambia Journal has several times raised this urgent issue that we think is not been giving the serious attention it deserves in order to maintain the peace and tranquility between the two countries. For Gambians, the tribulations of the difficult months of August and September 2005 are fresh in our minds. Let us face it, Senegal can work without The Gambia but The Gambia sure cannot. So we need to cool it down and stop engaging in adventurous schemes that are only based on sentiments and not part of our main poverty-eradicating national agenda. We have before called on the Gambia Government to develop a genuine official stand on the Casamance issue. Any such policy must separate the issues of sovereignty form those regional equality. After working out such policy we must see to it that we stand by it, come what may. Better this than a janus-faced approach that serves to run with the Senegalese authorities while hiding with their rebels.
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Aku_pickin
Christmas Island
162 Posts |
Posted - 03 Dec 2006 : 03:36:25
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There's speculation that Jammeh's trip to Iran is necessary to
"in order to help meet the growing threat they see emanating from Dakar."
http://www.thegambiajournal.com/artman/publish/article_613.shtml
Daily News
President Yahya Jammeh Left Banjul For Tehran By The Gambia Journal
Dec 2, 2006, 13:54
Banjul, December 1 The Gambia Journal
The Gambian President Yahya Jammeh left Banjul International Airport on Friday 1st December with a large entourage for an official to Teheran. It is his first overseas travel since March 21st when official claims say they caught high ranking soldiers in the act of planning a coup against his government while he was on a visit in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott. Reverberations of that coup continue to rumble the Gambian official establishment and trials of alleged plotters continue to hit Gambian newspapers.
Relations between The Gambia and the Islamic Republic started warming up remarkably after Jammeh’s high-handed decision to invite Iranian President Ahmadinejad to address the Banjul Summit of AU heads of states that was hosted by The Gambia last July. Observers say because of his growing isolation from The Gambia’s traditional development partners, Jammeh has been cozying up to controversial world leaders like the Venezuelan and Iranian Presidents.
Before the alleged March 21st coup attempt, Jammeh used to travel out on the average of two times a month and resident foreign diplomats were never done complaining about the time they spend seeing Jammeh off and back at the Banjul International Airport. After the alleged coup attempt however, Jammeh virtually stopped traveling. Now some observers believe Jammeh has to go in order to help meet the growing threat they see emanating from Dakar.
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Cornelius
Sweden
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Posted - 03 Dec 2006 : 04:51:30
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President Obasanjo says a word for the wise is sufficient:
A president is "never too big, too high or too old to learn"
A president "can never be too big, too high or too old to learn" or to set a bright example....
Hear ye him!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6196294.stm |
Edited by - Cornelius on 03 Dec 2006 04:59:08 |
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MADIBA
United Kingdom
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Posted - 03 Dec 2006 : 12:39:00
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quote:
Originally posted by Aku_pickin
This article is from The Gambia Journal (www.thegambiajournal.com):
http://www.thegambiajournal.com/artman/publish/article_609.shtmlDaily News
Cool It Down On Casamance By Mbaye B. Sarr & Mohammed L. Sillah
Dec 1, 2006, 18:16
President Jammeh on Thursday 30th November received a special envoy of President Abdoulie Wade of Senegal at State House in Banjul. The envoy, Sheikh Tidiane Gadio, who is also Senegal’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, later told reporters that he had delivered a special message from the Senegalese leader.
Aku,
Relax the Gambia will never go to war with Senegal. There could be cold war however. That's to say Tic for Tac politics. Banjul welcomes Senegal's enemies or dissidents and Dakar welcomes Gambia's enemies or dissidents.
The highlighted of the article is meant to show that Gambia Journal did not get all their facts right. Gadio never went to Gambia on the stated date. The last to visit is the Justice minister he is also Sheikh Tidiane but Sy not Gadio. According to the Senegalese web portal the link belows provides more info on the visits:http://www.seneweb.com/news/article/7009.php |
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Santanfara
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Posted - 03 Dec 2006 : 22:03:39
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| we should all be ready to defend the gambia if attack by our neibours over the border. i will buy a special sword with red colouring all over it. this is a joke. we will not fight with our chepugen brothers ,the senegalise are a likeable people and i like senegal. the mfdc need to stop this useless rebellion.if i start a rebel movement ,i will access my position after two years not twenty years. senegal cannot function without cassamace ,so do mfdc thinks main land senegal will let them break up the country ? know.infact it is not every region in cassamase that want seperation. |
Surah- Ar-Rum 30-22
"And among His signs is the creation of heavens and the earth, and the difference of your languages and colours. verily, in that are indeed signs for men of sound knowledge." Qu'ran
www.suntoumana.blogspot.com |
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kondorong
Gambia
4380 Posts |
Posted - 04 Dec 2006 : 17:52:00
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quote:
Originally posted by Cornelius
President Obasanjo says a word for the wise is sufficient:
A president is "never too big, too high or too old to learn"
A president "can never be too big, too high or too old to learn" or to set a bright example....
Hear ye him!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6196294.stm
I thought Obasanjo was ttrying to change the constitution for a third term. I am not sure if he is qualified to say these words. Or may be he has learnt from his mistakes. |
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Alhassan
Sweden
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Posted - 04 Dec 2006 : 18:47:45
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quote:
Originally posted by SANTANFARA
we should all be ready to defend the gambia if attack by our neibours over the border. i will buy a special sword with red colouring all over it. this is a joke. we will not fight with our chepugen brothers ,the senegalise are a likeable people and i like senegal. the mfdc need to stop this useless rebellion.if i start a rebel movement ,i will access my position after two years not twenty years. senegal cannot function without cassamace ,so do mfdc thinks main land senegal will let them break up the country ? know.infact it is not every region in cassamase that want seperation.
I agree with you a100%. Many people in Banjul and greater Banjul area has relatives from Cassamance. Not only the Jola. There are many Wollofs and Mandinkas withn the Cassamance region upp to Kolda. It is realy a mixed area with the Jolas as at the majority. One can even find a great number of the Sonninke. |
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