Sanusi,

Thanks for the information. This is clear evidence
that  Yaya Jammmeh was waisting these peoples time.We
all know how power hungry Jammeh is and if there was
any evidence that they  were to toppled him, they will
be jailed for life. Thank Allah that justice has
prevail. We will never forgive jammeh for what he has
done to these people.

I would like to extend my heartfelt gratitute to the
entire Saho family for the release  of Dumo.
Annika (Sweden), Saihou Omar Saho (Norway), Kebba Saho
(Sweden), Pa Amadou Saho (Germany), Ya Hadyy Saho and
Babou Saho(USA), Alieu Saho (DenmarK), Sheriff Saho,
Mustapha Saho, Amie Saho, Ousman Saho, Baboucarr
Saho(goalkeeper), Haddijatou Saho, Ebou Saho all the
sympathisers.

regards
pateh











for their
--- Malamin Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Any similarities in the story below with our dear
> old Gambia?
>
>
>
>
> Guinea: Economic Crisis And Liberian Gunmen Threaten
> Stability
>
> UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
> ANALYSIS
> July 15, 2004
> Posted to the web July 15, 2004
> Conakry
>
> When Guinean Prime Minister Francois Fall resigned
> in May after only two
> months in the job, protesting that his attempts to
> introduce political and
> economic reform were being blocked, President
> Lansana Conte did not bother
> to tell the nation officially that his right-hand
> man had quit and gone into
> exile.
>
> Neither did he appoint a successor.
>
> The tough-talking former army colonel is notorious
> for ignoring his
> ministers and the bigwigs of his ruling Party of
> Unity and Progress (PUP)
> when it suits him.
>
> But Conte, who has ruled this West African country
> with a rod of iron for
> the past 20 years, reacted speedily enough when
> gangs of youths started
> pillaging trucks of rice in the capital Conakry in
> early July.
>
> The riots were triggered by a steep increase in the
> price of rice, Guinea's
> staple food, to the point where ordinary people in
> the city could no longer
> afford to buy it.
>
> Conte immediately announced that the government
> would subsidise the price of
> rice to calm the situation.
>
> But importers, waiting to bring ashore over 100,000
> tonnes of rice sitting
> on ships in the port, wondered where he would get
> the money to pay them an
> 11,500 Guinean franc (US$ 4) subsidy for every 50 kg
> bag of rice sold to the
> public at the new controlled price of 40,000 francs
> ($ 14).
>
> That still compares unfavourably to the average
> Guinean wage of about 50,000
> francs ($18) per month.
>
> Starved of aid by western donors upset at Conte's
> refusal to clamp down on
> high-level corruption and embrace reform, and
> hamstrung by a decline in
> export earnings, the government has virtually run
> out of foreign exchange.
>
> As a result the dollar now trades on the parallel
> market at a 40 percent
> premium to the official exchange rate.
>
> "Empty stomachs will drive Guineans to protest"
>
> "Guinea is like a boiling big pot," Jean-Marie Dore,
> leader of the
> opposition Union for the Progress of Guinea (UPG)
> party, told IRIN in an
> interview in Conakry.
>
> "Empty stomachs will drive Guineans to protest after
> years of suffering," he
> warned, prior to the latest outburst of public
> anger.
>
> This occurred in the town of Telimele, 200 km north
> of Conakry, on
> Wednesday.
>
> Residents said a peaceful demonstration in the town
> by teachers protesting
> at the local authorities' failure to pay their
> salaries for two months soon
> degenerated into a violent protest by a wide
> cross-section of townspeople
> against the recently appointed Prefect (senior
> government administrator),
> Issiagah Maah.
>
> Eyewitnesses said the prefect was forced to flee
> with his family. Meanwhile,
> the local police contingent was overwhelmed by the
> protestors and stood by
> while the angry crowd vandalised government offices.
>
> "Riots represent the main risk of destabilisation
> for Conte's regime right
> now," Sidikiba Keita, coordinator of the Paris-based
> organisation Defence of
> Rights and Freedom in Guinea, told IRIN by telephone
> from France.
>
> "The situation could explode at any time because
> people are crying famine.
> They can no longer afford to feed their families,"
> he added.
>
> Guinea contains a third of the world's bauxite
> reserves and an abundance of
> diamonds, gold and iron ore. Plentiful rainfall
> should enable the verdant
> country to easily grow enough food for its eight
> million inhabitants. Guinea
> has the potential to be one of the most prosperous
> countries in West Africa.
>
> However, with per capita income is just US $350 per
> year, the country relies
> heavily on food imports, its neglected
> infrastructure is falling apart and
> export revenues are falling.
>
> According to World Bank sources, Guinea's official
> income from exports by
> the mining industry dropped sharply to US$ 568
> million last year from US$
> 894 million in 2003.
>
> But the threats to Guinea do not just come from a
> crumbling economy.
>
> Worries about Conte's health and the succession
>
> Diplomats fret about the health of Conte, who is now
> 70 and unable to walk
> unassisted as a result of diabetes and heart
> problems.
>
> Above all they worry that in a country which has
> known only two
> authoritarian presidents since independence from
> France in 1958, Conte has
> chosen no obvious successor and the country is
> starting to crumble beneath
> him.
>
> The political opposition is weak and divided along
> ethnic and regional lines
> and diplomats say no credible leader has so far
> emerged from its ranks
> capable of mounting a serious challenge to Conte.
>
> They fear that when the crunch comes, the army,
> which brought Conte to power
> in 1984, may be unable to control intense rivalry
> between Guinea's three
> mean ethnic groups, the Peul, the Malinke (Mandingo)
> and Conte's own people,
> the Sousou in order to ensure a smooth transition of
> power.
>
> "The Guineans are hungry, scared and disgusted by
> political affairs," one
> western diplomat in Conakry told IRIN.
>
> "The opposition cannot pull its weight and all the
> political and economic
> conditions are in favour of instability," he said.
>
> "Living conditions are deteriorating, insecurity
> causes a lot of problems,
> external funding is becoming scarce and the
> political situation is frozen,"
> the diplomat continued. "The situation has reached a
> critical level."
>
> Rising ethnic tensions in the remote Forest Region
> of southeastern Guinea
> are the cause of particular concern.
>
> An influx of idle gunmen
>
> An influx of idle gunmen from Liberia since the
> country's civil war ended in
> August last year has made the situation in the
> Forest Region even more
> tense.
>
> In June, two people were killed when Mandingo
> fighters
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