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Mo Baldeh wrote:

>Yes, Dr. Jaiteh! Sometimes when I send a posting to Gambia-L, it bounces back with this confirmation message. I'll try it once more, but it is really frustrating.
>   
>  Thanks,
>   
>  Momodou.
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>  Mo Baldeh,
>I believe this was meant for general readership and not management.
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>Malanding
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>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: Re: FW: Jeune Afrique Interview with Ely Vall (Mauritanian 
>President)
>Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 08:41:34 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Mo Baldeh 
>To: Gambia-L 
>
>
>
>Bambalaye,
>
>Thanks for the forward. I find Vall's interview quite illuminating. His 
>position on the participation of women in politics and self-perpetuating 
>rule are noteworthy. 
>
>If anything, the current Gambian leadership needs to take a cue from the 
>following statement:
>
>"When the same person and the same system remain in power for three
>decades, and the people have no prospect of change, this opens the door to
>all kinds of incidents and violence."
>
>A lesson that Jawara woefully failed to learn until 22nd July 1994.
>
>What I found inadequate in Vall's interview with Jeune Afrique was his 
>response to the question of returnees. Hundreds of thousands of black 
>Mauritanians (Wollofs, Fulas, and Serahulles) are still stranded on the 
>Senegalese and Malian sides of the border after having been forcefully 
>evicted from their homes in 1988. Most of them lost their belongings 
>including their national identification documents as their homes were 
>attacked and their women gang-raped by marauding groups of Moors.
>
>FLAM, the Mauritanian rebel movement in exile, has already denounced 
>Vall's government for not doing enough to speed up the return of these 
>refugees. The system of admitting only those with ID sounds arbitrary. 
>It is a façade aimed at reducing the black population in the country.
>
>Vall can make all the promises he wants on leadership, but so far as the 
>thorny issues of slavery and the rights of the black people are not 
>seriously addressed, Mauritania is bound to be a cauldron of instability 
>in that part of the continent.
>
>Momodou.
>
>
>
>BambaLaye wrote:
>
>Special Dispatch Series - No. 1304
>October 4, 2006 No.1304
>
>Mauritanian President Ely Ould Mohamed Vall on Reform in His
>Country: 'It
>Was Necessary to Break... the Logic of Lifelong Rule'
>
>Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall came to power on August 3, 2005, through a
>bloodless coup that toppled the 20-year dictatorship of Maaouiya Ould
>Taya. He was named President of Mauritania by the Military Council for
>Justice and Democracy (MCJD), which he headed. It should be noted
>that on
>Monday, October 1, 2006, an official ceremony was held to mark a new law
>putting an end to the Interior Ministry's control over the press; in
>practice, no censorship has been exercised since President Mohamed Vall
>assumed power in 2005. During the July 2006 African Union summit at
>Banjul, a motion congratulating Ely Ould Mohamed Vall was thwarted
>by the
>opposition of the president of the AU commission, Alpha Oumar Konaré.
>
>In July, the Paris-based newsweekly Jeune Afrique published an interview
>with the Mauritanian president, in which he discussed the reforms he has
>implemented - a new constitution, limitation of the presidential term,
>minimum representation level of 20% for women in political parties - as
>well as his plans for the future.
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