hi l members
It look`s like the same day JALIBA KUYATEH is going to play here in Atlanta
for charitable cause TOO. Let try to aviod that.
Thanks
Lamin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ousman Drammeh" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 9:43 AM
Subject: Fund Raising inatlanta
> The United Relief Service will organize a commercial fund raising dance on
> the 28th of September at the YMCA in Atlanta. YMCA is located on
campbellton
> rd near the campbellton plaza.the famous Gambian Dj solomon and a band
from
> Somalia will entertain the crowd.for more information contact Ebou Janha
at
> 678-887-3679 or ousman at 404-493-5392. come and support the charitable
> organization.
>
>
> >From: Momodou Camara <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
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> >Subject: FWD:Polician's home ablaze as France sends troops to Ivory Coast
> >Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:41:06 +0200
> >
> >ABIDJAN, Sept 22 (AFP) - The home of a key opposition leader was set
alight
> >overnight in continuing violence following a coup bid in Ivory Coast
> >prompting
> >France to send troops to its former west African colony, officials said
on
> >Sunday.
> > AFP correspondents saw smoke and flames billowing from the residence
of
> >opposition leader Alassane Ouattara.
> > "Mr Ouattara's residence, in the upmarket Cocody district of Abidjan,
> >was
> >set alight by elements of the security forces there," Aly Coulibaly,
> >spokesman
> >for Ouattara's Rally of Republicans (RDR) party told AFP by telephone.
> > Ouattara, 60, who served as prime minister from 1990 to 1993, has
> >sought
> >refuge at the French embassy in Abidjan with the approval of Ivorian
> >authorities.
> > Outtara said: "The German ambassador told me that it (Ouattara's
home)
> >was
> >on the point of collapsing".
> > The opposition leader said that the arson attack "could only be the
> >work of
> >
> >the security forces because there is a curfew in place. I called the fire
> >brigade but so far no one has arrived".
> > Ouattara confirmed that he was still staying in the French embassy,
> >where
> >he has taken refuge since the rebel uprising which began on Thursday.
> > With the country's second city, Bouake, in central Ivory Coast, and
the
> >northern town of Korhogo still under rebel control and tensions high in
> >Abidjan, France dispatched troop reinforcements to ensure the security of
> >French citizens and the international community, the French army chief of
> >staff said early Sunday.
> > More than 100 reinforcements arrived in the west African nation
aboard
> >a
> >transport plane, accompanied by helicopters, from other French bases in
> >Africa.
> >
> > "Under precautionary measures decided by the French authorities to
> >assure
> >the security of French citizens and the international community, the army
> >chief-of-staff has reinforced the military unit stationed in Abidjan,"
the
> >army said in a statement.
> > France already had a 600-strong contingent in the main Ivorian city
of
> >Abidjan. It also has bases in Chad, Senegal, Gabon and Djibouti, with a
> >total
> >of some 6,000 troops.
> > With an estimated 20,000 French citizens living in Ivory Coast,
> >officials
> >in Paris said the reinforcements were being sent in as an implicit
message
> >to
> >rebels that they will take quick action in the event of an attack on the
> >French community.
> > French officials also made it clear that the deployment did not mean
> >France
> >
> >intended to intervene in the crisis in any way, which the French defence
> >minister, Michele Alliot-Marie called a "purely internal affair".
> > In a statement on Friday, the defence minister added, "it appears
that
> >there is no threat at all" to the French community or other Westerners.
> >
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> ous
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