Yero thanks for sharing the piece.  It is a good observation and the points raised are open for debate.  My question to Lamin is how long can the diaspora organisations continue to facilitate the political process and in our case is it working for us? Lamin is talking about the opposition in the ground but have they put any strategies which making impact for widing democratic space such as electoral reforms,  constitution reforms including independent and transparent IEC? Are the political parties even democratic?  Are they not existing by names? I have not been following CORDEG and others of recently but ineffective opposition politics is the case the emergence of types of civil organisations. We have opposition politicians who form parties and want to be leaders but the dictator have control all means for.  They don't want to change strategies,  they want to listen,  they have created divided memberships and many are not tolerant to criticism.We have a long way to go with Yahya Jammeh if the language is not change to mass demonstration for political reform.

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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 19:12:27 -0600
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Subject: LJD on CORDEG
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