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Gambia News : Senegal's president visits Gambia to warm up ties
Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade arrived Tuesday in Banjul for a
24-hour working visit to Gambia to warm up relations between the
neighbouring countries, officials said.
Gambia's President Yahya
Jammeh met Wade at the airport, then the two took roads lined with
flags of both nations towards the hotel in the city centre where the
Senegalese delegation will be staying.
Many residents turned out
to see Wade, 83, who will be with Jammeh to discuss security and the
economy, and the situation in Casamance, where an armed separatist
movement has been active since 1982, according to an official Gambian
source.
Gambia, a former British colony, is a small enclave in
French-speaking Senegal, apart from its Atlantic coast. It divides the
north from Casamance, which is the southern province of Senegal. Rebels
of the Casamance Movement of Democratic Forces (MFDC) have often used
Gambia as a rear base.
"In as much as the two leaders hold their
discussion, the tendency is that not much will come out of it," Gambian
political analyst Ebrihim Samba told AFP. "The relations between the
two countries have gone to a stage that trust between the two heads of
states cannot be easily guaranteed."
Relations between the
neighbouring countries were recently chilled by a letter attributed to
a Gambian opposition figure, Kukoi Samba Sanyang, who asked Wade early
in November to help him overthrow the Gambian government, according to
Gambian state media.
Sanyang is already accused of trying in
August 1981 to oust Gambia's first president, Dawda Jawara. He lives in
Senegal, according to the Gambian media, and Gambian authorities accuse
Senegal of harbouring numerous other Gambian dissidents.
During
his visit, Wade will meet representatives of the Senegalese community
in Gambia, which is estimated at about 500,000 people.
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- I do not understand in the first instant,why the hell should the Cassamance and mainland Senegal problem concern our national security..to hell with this filthy political manouvres..yefi joola yii
(Posted on January 15, 2010, 3:20 PM papachi)
- Is no suprise that the one who call himself or herself freedom of speech is one who is totaly ignorant on world issues. Read more history and you will know when rebellion started. You can continue your hatered, ignorance and baberic writing.
(Posted on January 7, 2010, 7:03 PM Lamin)
- i do believe in freedom of speech. but some of my brothers and sisters do not understand what freedom of speech meen.some think is for chaos or evil activities.if u dont know aske some one that knows. casamance problem start in 1980 not 1994 please.
(Posted on January 7, 2010, 2:14 AM ABUBACARR SAMBOU)
- the fighting in casamance start in 1994,before jammeh come to power,but since then he is making Gambia a save heaven for this so called rebel murder encouraging them to fight for independence,
Jammeh have more involvement in casamance than wade,
(Posted on January 6, 2010, 11:03 PM freedom of speech)
- The gost freedom of speech is one whose expression is base on hatered, ignorance, selfish and babaric. When we say freedom of speech it is expressing views that unify us not that continue to divide us. Is rebelion in casamace started in 1994?
(Posted on January 6, 2010, 5:53 PM Lamin)
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