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MAURITANIA: Terrorist attack hits already-fragile economy

Alleged terrorist attacks on 14 September in Tourine in the northeast killed 11 soldiers and their civilian guide, confirmed Mauritania’s newly-installed defence ministry on 20 September. Analysts say the economy can ill-afford this additional blow in the face of donor sanction threats. The European Union (EU), US government and World Bank have suspended, or threaten to cut, more than US$500 million in non-humanitarian aid in condemnation of the 6 August military takeover and continued...

Ambassador Wells on 9/11

Ambassador Barry L Wells, the United States’ chief diplomat in The Gambia, has stated that seven years after the terrorist attacks on the United States, the country still faces the threats of terrorists who continue to take innocent lives around the world. He made these remarks on September 12, at the premises of the embassy of the United States, during the swearing-in ceremony of some US Peace Corps volunteers. The US diplomat recalled that seven years ago, terrorists hijacked airplanes and...

RFI is Back on Air

Following negotiations between the Department of State for Communication, Information and Technology and the management of Radio France International (RFI), the radio is now back on the air, The Point can confirm. Information reaching The Point has it that the radio, whose signals somehow could not be received in the country since Tuesday, 15th January 2008, resumed reaching Gambian listeners yesterday. According to a press release from the Department of State for Communications, Information...

RFI off the Air

Listeners of Radio France International (RFI) in The Gambia have in recent days had cause to scramble for alternative sources of news, entertainment and all other services hitherto made accessible to them by the FM station, which has been out of transmission since Tuesday, 15th January.   Meanwhile in a news release from the Department of State for Communications, Information and Technology, the department has repudiated with resentment a news report carried out by RFI claiming that some...

Barbarians incarnate

Allow me space to express my view on the activities of terrorists and rebels that abound and operate in the contemporary world.  These are barbarians incarnate, for their values, conduct and actions are inhuman and monstrous. Spreading fear through the murder of innocent people - among them defenseless children, women and elderly people - they seem to pride themselves on their acts as the world sits back and watch with indifference because of stimulated political reasons. They possess...