Disturbing news from Senegal yesterday indicates that the gov’t of Wada, renowned as a model in the sub-region was to deport RFI journalist Soffie Mallibo to France yesterday. Her crime was simply interviewing a left-wing rebel in the person of Alexandra Gibba of the MFDC. In the interview, the rebel who also commanded the military wing of the movement decried the on-going peace talks between the Senegalese gov’t and Father Gamacoune as rubbish and as an attempt to winning cheap popularity for the Father. He went further to accuse the father as being on the gov’t pay list.
	According to the BBC Ebrima Sillah, the authorities swiftly arrested her in Cassamance as  a security detainee and was escourted to Dakar by military men, where she was issued a deportation order. Amaizing? In the meantime, both media as well as human right organizations have all decried this move as a threat to senegal’s standing as a reputable country in Africa. I don’t want to assume that Senegal may be learning this bad example from her notorious neighbor under Emperor Jam Jam? Well, time will tell.

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