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]>
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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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