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Momodou
Denmark
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 Posted - 08 Jul 2013 : 13:44:47
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Jammeh accuses Senegal of harbouring Gambian dissidents
By A special correspondent in Dakar, Senegal
The Point: Published on Monday, July 08, 2013
 President Yahya Jammeh has accused Senegal of harbouring and aiding Gambian dissidents plotting to destabilize his regime, and he has vowed not to get involved in helping to resolve the Casamance crisis until Senegal changes its attitude towards The Gambia.
Speaking in an interview with the private Senegalese television station TFM on Friday, President Jammeh said, due to the proximity of the two countries and the porous borders, it is against international law for Senegal to grant political asylum to Gambians accused of attempting to overthrow his government.
“Do they take me to be a fool? How can they expect me to help them end the Casamance rebellion when they are harbouring my enemies in Senegal?” he asked......................
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Karamba
United Kingdom
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Posted - 08 Jul 2013 : 21:33:10
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| Jammeh wants Senegal to hand in all those disagreeing with him so he kills them. No Jammeh, Senegal will not permit you kill any more than you already done including their own. |
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Momodou
Denmark
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Posted - 10 Jul 2013 : 21:23:01
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CASAMANCE SHOULD NOT BE A BARGAINING CHIP FOR BILATERAL RELATIONS
Foroyaa Editorial: Published on Tuesday, 09 July 2013
Senegal and Gambia are two states with one people. Almost every Senegalese has a relation in the Gambia and every Gambian has a relation in Senegal. Hence, African integration should begin with these two countries if they are led by governments that are truly interested in the welfare of their two peoples.
The protocols on African integration and unity calls for countries to get closer together by harmonizing their Constitutions, laws, institutions, administrative practices, civil societies and culture of governance. In this way, they would influence each other’s standards of governance by initiating peer review strategies to promote better governance environment.
If the two governments developed such a relation, the people in Casamance would have been protected by a constitution and laws and would have had their liberty, dignity and prosperity protected by institutions and administrators. If this had happened, we would not be talking about a Casamance crisis today.
Casamance is endowed with natural resources and with proper prospecting it is an area which could come up with diverse mineral resources. The people of Casamance do not want to be refugees in neighbouring countries. They want to build decent homes, have decent jobs, earn decent incomes, feed their families with decent food and send them to decent schools, treat them in decent hospitals and prepare them for decent jobs and incomes tomorrow. They do not want to be in a state of war and should not be a bargaining chip in the relation between the governments of Senegal and the Gambia.
It is the intellectuals from the Casamance region who should begin to flex their intellectual muscle and help the people in the region to take charge of their destiny by showing that they are the determinant of their own future.
Foroyaa will begin to dig out people of intellectual substance in Casamance and challenge them to put a solution in place for the long suffering people of the region to finally know peace and development. The Gambian people as a whole is their neighbour and does not want them to live in a state of war and roam about as refugees in foreign lands where they could suffer all sorts of discrimination and indignities when they have a homeland of their own that could grant them a dignified sanctuary.
Source: Foroyaa Editorial |
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Momodou
Denmark
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Posted - 10 Jul 2013 : 22:46:16
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Continuation of President Jammeh’s Interview with TFM
by Ousman Sillah
Foroyaa: Published on Wednesday, 10 July 2013
President Jammeh said: “International law does not permit governments to
give political asylum to people from a neighbouring country that shares border
with you and for those people to start insulting the regime in their country of origin to the extent of saying that this person will be killed. What sort of democracy is that? This is what has existed between the Gambia and Senegal during the time of the Wade presidency. Although at the time of Abdou Diouf (president) we had a problem but that was resolved.
To take goods from the Gambia to Mali traversing Senegal would look as if you want to go to heaven. What do they mean by that? How can we have smooth relations in such a situation? For us, Senegal brings everything here. You also have many Senegalese nationals in the country. If you go to the market you find many Senegalese nationals doing business, but if you go to Sandaga market (Dakar, Senegal) you don’t see any Gambian national selling there. This is a relationship that is one sided. What do you mean by that? So, if I tell you the relationship between The Gambia and Senegal is smooth, I am not telling you the truth.
Just recently, we had the case of Kukoie Samba Sanyang. Kukoie is my cousin. He is the son of my aunt. Kukoie came up to Kanilai (President Jammeh’s birthplace) and said he wants to come back to the Gambia. I told him that you are welcome if it is peace that you want since your problem was with Jawara (former president). But I told him that if he wants to bring to me the problem he had with Jawara I will cut his head.
I am not afraid of doing that. I told him if you come you have to be peaceful since all those he went with are now back and living peacefully in the country. He left the country and made a declaration insulting me. I told him that you will never come back to the country, even your dead body will not be allowed to be brought. I told him if you come to the Gambia I will cut your head. He then went and was given Senegalese nationality. And how many Senegalese died when Kukoie staged a coup d’etat?
The TFM journalist, Adhia Talla, asked President Jammeh about the situation in Casamance.
President Jammeh: Concerning Casamance, Abdoulaye Wade is responsible for the whole problem. If you can remember, I think it was in 2005 when he closed the borders. But before that MFDC wrote to him and also wrote to me, but I told them that I was no longer part of the negotiators. MFDC told me that since they have spoken to him (President Wade), he did not contact them and they have written to him again, but he did not say anything about the peace accord. The MFDC told me that in terms of the implementation of the peace accord, they have already spoken to the fighters in the field and they have agreed to disarm, but that now they did not know the type of situation they have found themselves in. I told them that as for me, I know what I am in because they (Wade government) have removed me from the process saying that I am no longer part of it. This is what I know.
In fact in his (Wade’s) last visit, he was not ready to come to the Gambia. It was Kofi Annan (UN Secretary General) who talked to him, because for him (Wade), he said he only wanted Guinea Bissau and other countries to be part of the peace negotiation process, but not The Gambia. You can even see that in his last visit to the Gambia, he only stopped at the airport. It was Kofi Annan who called him. However, I told Kofi Annan that I want you to force him to come, but I know one thing that if he is unwise enough to touch Gambia, he will live to regret it as that will be a lesson not to touch Gambia again……………
He then went to France, saying that he wants arms to modernize the Senegalese army.
Since the man in charge said he no longer needed me, then I too don’t need him.
In 2005, he closed the border. After a while, I went there and told him that now you have closed the border (Senegalese part), my own borders still remain open and Senegalese nationals are entering. But I told him that if you don’t open it, I will also close the Gambian border and if I do so I will not open it again. This was on a Friday. He wanted us to talk about the MFDC and he called Obasanjo (former President of Nigeria) and Malang Bakai Sanha (the late President of Guinea Bissau) for us to meet at the airport……..But I told him that I don’t come to negotiate and that I am giving him an ultimatum of 8 hours to open the Senegalese part of the border or else I will close the Gambian border and then wait and see who is going to make him to reopen it. Now my policy is that if you are host to my enemy; I will not set fire on your house, but I will not help in extinguishing it when it is on fire. So that is that. You cannot be the host of my enemy and then want me to help you with your enemy. If they change their policy, I will help them. If they don’t, then I will not help them"
Source: Foroyaa |
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Karamba
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Posted - 14 Jul 2013 : 02:30:54
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| Why is Jammeh all about me, me, me, me,me? He told me, he said this. I said that even his dead body will not be allowed in Gambia. i will cut his his head. Where are we with all that Jammeh me, me, me, ? |
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