Katim, I second your motion and bravo to all that attended to present our
case to the Honorable Ambassador. Keep up the fight.
Chi Jaama
Joe Sambou
>From: "Katim S. Touray" <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Meeting with the new US Ambassador
>Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 23:26:55 -0700
>
>Hi folks,
>
>A big "Thank you!" to Maila, Malanding Jaiteh and Co. for attending the
>meeting with
>Amb. McDonald, and expressing our concerns about the situation in The
>Gambia to him.
>And thanks also to James Gomez, Jr. for helping organize the meeting, as
>well as to
>Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and Rev. Jesse Jackson for their concern about
>events in The
>Gambia. Please keep up the great work!
>
>Katim
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Maila Touray <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 10:57 AM
>Subject: Meeting with the new US Ambassador
>
>
> > As we adamantly monitors events leading up to Gambia's Presidential
> > election, Concerned Gambian Residents in the USA, met with the new US
> > Ambassador to Gambia, Mr. Mcdonald, at the State Department. During the
> > almost, two hour briefing, a seven-page PETITION FOR HELP IN BUILDING A
> > BETTER GAMBIA, was handed to the Ambassador and after giving a brief
> > background and comparison on Gambian socio-political/economic history, a
> > quarter of
> > the time was spent on the lack of good governance, tolerance,
> > accountability, misuse of power and privilege, abrogation of law and
> > order, illegal detention and torture of citizens, constant intimidation
> > of the press and opposition parties and the upcoming presidential
> > election.
>
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