Cheikh Sidi Moukhtar Mbacke, the Khalif General of the Mouride in Touba, Senegal, has written to the Gambian leader, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh expressing his profound gratitude for his [President Jammeh’s] significant contribution to the Magal of Touba 2011.

The message reads:
I wish to hereby transmit to Your Excellency my warmest greetings and to acknowledge receipt of your important contribution to the Magal. I am very appreciative of the gesture and in the name of the Mouride sect and in my own name, I want to immensely thank Your Excellency.

This symbolic gesture is once more testimony to the profound and secular relations that exist between Senegal and The Gambia. Thus, allow me Your Excellency, to renew on this auspicious occasion, the relations that existed between you and my predecessors, as well as the Mouride Brotherhood. Furthermore, I want to affirm my resolve to reinforce these relations, by the grace of Allah and His Prophet Muhammad (Peace and Blessing Be upon Him).

While praying for you, your family and the entire people of The Gambia, peace, good health, happiness and prosperity, please accept, Your Excellency the assurance of my highest consideration.

Cheikh Sidi Moukhtar Mbacke
Khalif General Mouride