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MAURITANIA: Coup members face one-month sanctions ultimatum

Following a meeting between Mauritania’s junta leaders and the European Union in Paris, EU officials have given the military officials one month to show how they will restore constitutional order, or sanctions will take effect. Coup leaders – who have refused to release President Sidi Mohammed Cheikh Ould Abdallahi – and donors are entering their 10th week of a sanctions standoff. At stake is about US$500 million in development and military assistance. Included in that sum is $175 million from...

I Was Misunderstood on Mile 2 Issue - KMC Mayor

Following our publication last week regarding comments madeby Lawyer Assan Martin, a former magistrate reminding Yankuba Colley, Mayor ofthe Kanifing Municipal Council (KMC) that it is only the courts that can sendpeople to Mile II central prisons, Mayor Colley has clarified that his commentswere apparently understood out of context. Mayor Colley, who was quoted by GRTSas saying that he would send defying butchers who failed to reduce the price ofmeat to mile two prison, said in a rejoinder...

Mixed Public Reaction to President Jammeh’s Ultimatum

If theweek-long ultimatum given by President Jammeh for the price of meat to bereduced is any guide, then the price of meat will by this week go down to D80and D60 per kilo of steak and for meat and bone respectively.Well, inthis opinion poll carried by our reporter yesterday as to the reactions of thegeneral public, many who spoke to The Point described the move by PresidentJammeh as a welcome development but some also expressed the view that the issueshould be given a second thought. “Thank...

Jammeh Gives Ultimatum for Price of Meat to Go Down

Ashe distributes Sugar to MuslimsThe President Dr. Alhagie Yahya Jammeh yesterday distributed18,000 bags of sugar as Ramadan gift to the administrative regions andmunicipalities in the country. Other beneficiaries included the Supreme IslamicCouncil, the departments of Interior and Defense. The Gambian leader used theoccasion to criticize unscrupulous businessmen as well as butchers who used theRamadan period to increase the price of commodities. President Jammehgave one week ultimatum to...

National Assembly Speaker Gives Ultimatum

As PAC/ PEC Prepares to Receive Annual Reports In what could be described as an ultimatum to all public enterprises and agencies, Hon. Fatoumata Jahumpa Ceesay, Speaker of the National Assembly, has warned that by 8thSeptember the joint committee of Finance and Public Enterprises of the National Assembly will proceed to take appropriate legal measures against defaulting agencies and enterprises that fail to submit their annual reports, accounts and financial statements by 2ndSeptember 2008....

Ultimatum for sic!

President Jammeh has called on the Supreme Islamic Council (SIC) to put its house in order and advanced a one week (with effect from last week Thursday) ultimatum for it to regulate the apparent Islamic differences in the country.  He said the kind of people who use various forms of material inducements to propagate their faith are in fact hypocrites. President Jammeh made these remarks, last Thursday, during the official inauguration ceremony of the new Supreme Islamic Council Training...

State Given Ultimatum in Stalled Willy Joof Trial

The state prosecutor has been given an ultimatum by the Banjul Magistrates Court to proceed with the case of Willy Joof on the next adjourned date or leave the court with the only option of discharging him. Addressing the prosecution, Magistrate Kayode said that he would grant one more adjournment but that if on the next date the state prosecution failed to proceed with case, the court would discharge the accused. Earlier the defence counsel, Lamin Camara, protested against the state’s...

FIFA ultimatum for Gambia artificial turf contractor

FIFA development officer, Sampon Kablan, has given a one month ultimatum to the contractor of the Gambia’s first-ever artificial turf to complete the final work at the ground. ITA Green, a German company, has been tasked to complete work at the Box Bar turf in the next 30 days. The FIFA inspector, however, fell short of mentioning what penalty the contractor would face, should it fail to complete the work before the period. The artificial turf, which is a man-made surface manufactured from...

President Jammeh Gives Ultimatum for Homosexuals to Leave

President Jammeh has seriously denounced the practice of homosexuality in the country and has given last Friday as the ultimatum for culprits to leave the country. Speaking last Thursday at a victory celebration held at the Buffer Zone in Tallinding, President Jammeh said that a legislation“stricter than those in Iran” concerning the vice would be introduced very soon. He maintained that The Gambia is a country of believers, noting that such sinful and immoral exploits as homosexuality would...

DRC-RWANDA: Kinshasa unable to disarm FDLR rebels - analysts

The deadline for Rwandan Hutu fighters in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to voluntarily disarm has expired without guns being handed in, because Kinshasa lacks the capacity to resolve the problem, analysts said. The 15 January ultimatum was issued to the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) by the DRC government. It was based on an accord reached in November 2007 in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, between Rwanda and the Kinshasa government. According to the DRC Defence...