Friends, 
has APRC changed or started a new strategy ? To enroll, engage the women.?
Will they succeed in that after the april- incident ? I doubt but who can
tell ?
Over the years when I discussed progress in Africa, the Gambia, the village,
the family with my african/gambian friends, I have always stressed that to
me the key to obtain progress was in the "hands of the african/gambian
woman". Many times I am corrected by my friends, who do not agree on that.
But I still think the women, our mothers are key-persons to also obtaining
"political" power. And I come to think about it once again, when I read this
in  GRTS-News from saturday.

Regards Asbjørn Nordam


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>    GRTS Radio News - Today's Headlines
 >  
>GRTS RADIO NEWS:   SATURDAY JUNE 3RD 2000
>The Ruling APRC party on Thursday held a sensitisation meeting in Bakau
>Newtown.   It was attended by party militants including women.  Addressing the
>meeting the party's campaign secretary Yankuba Touray said both the party and
>president Jammeh look up to women as a springboard for the party's continuous
>success, adding that they will do everything possible to empower them.  The
>majority leader in the National Assembly Honourable Tamsir Jallow emphasised
>that the party has the support of women folk noting that those who have women
>behind them would win in any elections.  Other speakers included the national
>women mobilizer of the APRC Aji Fatou Sallah, the Director of press and public
>relations office of the president  Fatoumatta Jahumpa-Ceesay, the KMC Chairman
>Abdoulie Conteh, and the national assembly member for Serrekunda east Fabakary
>Tombong Jatta
......
......

>Four more people have been appointed as members of the Commission of Inquiry
>into the incidents of April 10th and 11th.  The new members Ndey Kumba Sosseh,
>Joseph Wowo, Almamy Fanding Taal and Abdul Cole yesterday took the oaths of
>office and secrecy, at a ceremony held at the Vice President's office.
>Speaking at the occasion, the chairman of the 12 member commission chief
>Justice Felix Lartey noted that the presence of a female member would give,
>much more credibility to the commission.
.....
.....

>.  In a separate engagement,   Mrs Njie-Saidy received guests of the Gambia
>Islamic women Association from Senegal, who are in the country to join their
>counterparts on a series of activities to sensitise their fellow women on the
>teachings of Islam.  The head of the Gambian delegation Aja Jainaba Dibba said
>their programme of activities includes conferences on the role of women in the
>upbringing of the child and in nation building.  The Vice President commended
>both groups for taking such a laudable initiative to share their knowledge with
>their counterparts.   Mrs Njie-Saidy said that women too have a crucial role to
>play in the strengthening of the Islamic religion in the family and the
>community.

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