Sidi,


We continue to pray for a peaceful solution ot this standoff. We also
continue to pray for you guys. I heard a piece on public radio yestrday and
some Burkinabe were saying that there is a very strong anti-foreigner
sentiment and that the yare being targeted. They mentioned that it has
already happened to the Senegalese in CI and now it is the turn of other West
Africans from neighbouring countries in CI.

I think of all those Senegalese shops in Trecheville and cannot help
wondering about their fate. I know there are also quite a lot of Burkinabe in
the street of Abidjan.

Jabou

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> Mr. Dampha,
>
> As expressed earlier, the Gambian community is OK.  Speaking of the
> sub-regional impact of the current madness, Niger and other neighbouring
> countries have already started experiencing shortages of basic commodities
> which originate from CI. The petroleum products used in The Gambia and
> neighbouring countries are refined in CI so one should expect shortages if
> the stand-off is prolonged.  Strategic stockpiling of the commodity to
> avoid
> shortages is thus a viable option worth considering by The Gambia, although
> they could import from Senegal.  Whether Senegal has the capacity to
> satisfy
> Gambia's petroleum requirements together with its own and her traditional
> customers, I am not in a position to say. The cocoa and coffee industry in
> CI, on the other hand, is already impacted with prices in the international
> market for cocoa reaching a 16-year high and expected to go higher. But how
> can Ivoirian farmers benefit when they cannot get the commodity to market.
> In fact, the rebels have vowed that there next offensive push will be
> through the cocoa belt en route to Abidjan. We hope by then a diplomatic
> solution would have been found to save not only Cote d'Ivoire but the
> entire
> sub-region.
>
> Sidi Sanneh

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