President Wade’s Envoy Talks of Confederation, What Is Going On?
Well are we heading for another Senegambian confederation, another like the one branded “marriage of confusion” that ended abruptly at the end of the eighties? Well it appears to be what a visiting Senegalese minister was reported to have told reporters on Monday at the grounds of the State House in Banjul. A Gambia Journal correspondent explains. According to the state-controlled media monitored in Banjul, President Jammeh on Monday March 22nd received Senegalese Senior Minister of the Armed Forces Mr. Abdoulaye Balde as a special envoy of President Abdoulaye Wade. That the envoy is from the ministry of defence has raised concerns among certain sections of observers and political analysts in The Gambia. The Senegalese minister was accompanied to State House by the Gambian Foreign Affairs Minister; Ousman Jammeh instead of his counterpart given the fact in The Gambia Jammeh also holds also the defence portfolio. Speaking to the usual crowd of state-friendly reporters allowed in to Stat
