Is that an I or an L between the U and the V Demba??? The La in La-Guinea is only a definite article and it doesn't mean much to La-Guineans. You know they are proud people. They'll likely torpedo the deal for sleight. Plus Burkina Faso is really prouder of Faso than Burkina. This is because they want to be known as Les hommes integres - Men with integrity (Sankara). Burkina is delimiting as to local heritage and Mali, La-GUinea, and Cocody are bound to balk at that. The French school system is heavy on philosophy and heritage. And you know the African will bring all kinds of stumbling blocks when it comes to sharing. I want to share some more commonality in Fouta Jallon. The geology of the highlands suggests that from its peak inside La-Guinea, it fans out in a concentric series of plateaus, North, East, South, and West up to the Atlantic coast. Gambia, Senegal, Bissau, North Mali, Burkina, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, SierraLeone, and Liberia actually sit on the last such plateau. That is what is preventing the Atlantic from swallowing Senegal, Gambia, Bissau, SierraLeone, and Liberia whole. Demba unless you come up with something better than Fouta Jallon without scaring the rest of the pack all the way to Johannesburg, my family will remain out of reach for you. If you think colonizing my family is a piece of cake, you got another thing coming. Haruna. -----Original Message----- From: Demba Baldeh <[log in to unmask]> To: GAMBIA-L <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tue, Apr 12, 2011 8:54 pm Subject: Re: IC: France promises massive humanitarian assistance to Cote d'Ivoire to help bring the country Oh no, Haruna, I meant to write 'MaLaBuIvory' as a name... sorry!!! Demba On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:46 PM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote: You got me laughing hard Haruna on your analogy of the bad vs the evil criminals. I concur France may be guilty which is exactly how humans should feel when they do something wrong and then pay up! I would rather be assimilated with fewer rail roads and decent educational system than a monarchy that doesn't know I exist. How about 'Coalition of the Awoken' to lead the pack in Africa or better even Malaise!!!! You choose. Thx Demba Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile From: Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]> Sender: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:27:12 -0400 To: <[log in to unmask]> ReplyTo: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: IC: France promises massive humanitarian assistance to Cote d'Ivoire to help bring the country Thank you Demba for the kind words. I take after your resourcefulness and generousity of spirit. Perhaps France feels guilty for its crimes in colonialism. If there is a scramble for Africa again, I'd like France to take Gambia. (Just kidding). But I mean in the arena of comparative criminals, France is way down the list. And they are making ammends to La-Guinea. What I am working on now is a significant union between Mali-LaGuinea-Burkina-Ivory Coast. WOnder what we'll call it. First things first. Please help me think of a name for this country. I promise you if you help us with the name, we will get the union in or lifetime or you can colonize me and my family. What? I got my knucklehead cousin warning me of Demba's appetite to colonize other folk. And wouldn't you rather Demba colonize our family than the British? "speak for your friggin self, I don't wanna hear it." She says. Thanx Demba. All I know is you got my vote. -----Original Message----- From: Demba Baldeh <[log in to unmask]> To: GAMBIA-L <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tue, Apr 12, 2011 5:07 pm Subject: Re: IC: France promises massive humanitarian assistance to Cote d'Ivoire to help bring the country Haruna, Thanks for sharing... that is a great gesture from France and is the moral thing to do. Although France has their own shortcomings, but I think they have always been more generous to their colonies than the British. Most french colonies in Africa were left in a better shape than the English. It is great to see them coming to the rescue of the Ivorian people and I hope they lobby for a complete debt write off for Ivory Coast... they deserve a break. Thanks again for sharing... you are very resourceful Haruna. Demba 2011/4/12 Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]> quickly to normalcy and reduce the suffering. Thank you France!!!! This is what a responsible partner does. Assist your partner in fighting disease and disaster, then assist in the quick recovery and mending of souls. I love ze French. Haruna. 400 million EUROS!!!!!!!!! And so quickly when it matters????? The UN can learn a lot from France when they consider recovery for Japan this month. I love Sarkozy, the other idiot. You know this got me thinking. If you have so many idiots in the world, you need a number of countervailing idiots. So Sarkozy and I are the countervailing idiots. Think about it!!! Brother Saiks. Côte d’Ivoire : la France annonce une aide “exceptionnelle” de 400 millions d’euros La France va apporter dans les prochains jours "un soutien financier exceptionnel de 400 millions d’euros" à la Côte d’Ivoire, pour aider notamment à satisfaire les besoins urgents des populations et de la ville d’Abidjan, a annoncé mardi la ministre des finances, Christine Lagarde. La ministre a rencontré mardi son homologue ivoirien, Charles Koffi Diby, lors d’une réunion de la zone franc à N’Djamena, au lendemain de l’arrestation de Laurent Gbagbo par les forces d’Alassane Ouattara, avec le soutien de l’ONU et de l’armée française. "Plein soutien de la France" Christine Lagarde a assuré "la Côte d’Ivoire du plein soutien de la France dans cette période de réconciliation et de reconstruction", selon un communiqué de son ministère. "Christine Lagarde a annoncé que la France apporterait dans les prochains jours, dès que les circuits financiers et la sécurité seront rétablis, un soutien financier exceptionnel de 400 millions d’euros", ajoute Bercy. Cette aide est "destinée, dans un premier temps, à financer les dépenses d’urgence pour les populations, la ville d’Abidjan et le redémarrage des services publics essentiels", précise la ministre. Elle "doit également servir, dans un second temps, à relancer l’activité économique et à permettre l’apurement des arriérés vis-à-vis des institutions internationales". Cette annonce intervient alors que le rôle de la France dans l’arrestation de Laurent Gbagbo commence à devenir sujet à polémique. LA FRANCE A ÉTÉ "ABSOLUMENT REMARQUABLE ET INATTAQUABLE" Mardi matin, le ministre de la défense, Gérard Longuet, s’est dit "certain" que "des images de toute l’opération" qui a conduit à la chute de Laurent Gbagbo seraient "disponibles", et montreraient que les soldats français n’ont pas participé à l’arrestation de l’ex-président ivoirien. Le porte-parole du gouvernement, François Baroin, a jugé que la France a été "absolument remarquable et inattaquable" et "n’acceptera aucune leçon de morale de quiconque ni aucune leçon politique". Autre son de cloche, l’ancien ministre français des affaires étrangères et conseiller de l’ex-président ivoirien, Roland Dumas, a accusé "l’armée française, sur ordre politique, (d’avoir) livré Laurent Gbagbo" à son adversaire Alassane Ouattara. "La vérité, elle est claire, c’est que l’armée française, sur ordre politique, a livré à son adversaire M. Laurent Gbagbo. Elle l’a même amené au domicile de l’adversaire, un peu comme dans les traditions d’autrefois, de l’Antiquité", a déclaré M. Dumas sur France Inter. "Ce qui me déplaît dans cette histoire, c’est qu’on essaie de raconter des billevesées aux Français. Il ne faut pas prendre les Français pour des enfants niais et idiots", a ajouté l’ancien avocat et ancien ministre socialiste, ardent défenseur de M. Gbagbo. Selon lui, en intervenant militairement en Côte d’Ivoire, la France a choisi "la plus mauvaise des méthodes parce que ça laissera des traces dans les pays africains". 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