The following is culled from : clari.world.gov.politics,clari.world.africa.western,clari.world.mideast+africa newsgroups *********** DAKAR, Aug 28 (AFP) - Gambia's foreign minister, Sedate Jobe, on Tuesday confirmed reports that he had resigned and that President Yahya Jammeh had accepted his resignation. In a telephone interview with AFP here, Jobe refused to be drawn into the reasons behind his departure. "I have resigned. My resignation has been accepted. I have no further comment to make," he said. Jobe's resignation was announced on national television on Monday evening. His departure comes less than one week after the expulsion by Gambia of a British diplomat. Bharat Joshi, the deputy head of mission at the British High Commission in Banjul, the Gambian capital, left the country last Wednesday after being declared 'persona non grata' by officials there. He was expelled after Fatumata Jahumpa Cessay, a Gambian government official, criticised him for attending an opposition coalition meeting on August 20. Prominent opposition politician Ousainu Darboe called for Jobe to resign following the expulsion. The British Foreign Office told AFP last week that the meeting which Joshi attended was a press conference, open to everyone, and that he had "absolutely not" attended a meeting of the opposition. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html You may also send subscription requests to [log in to unmask] if you have problems accessing the web interface and remember to write your full name and e-mail address. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------