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Echo's La Guinea Watch
Guinea Presidential Candidate Says Local Officials Campaigning for Rival
Scott Stearns | Dakar 01 September 2010
Front-runner Cellou D. Diallo smiles at admiring crowd
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The front-runner in Guinea's presidential runoff says some local officials are unfairly campaigning for his rival ahead of this month's vote.
Cellou Diallo won more than 40 percent of ballots in Guinea's first round of presidential voting. So he is considered the front-runner in this month's runoff, especially as he has expanded his political coalition to include former rivals...
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posted on Wednesday, September 01, 2010 10:13 PM by egsankara
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Editorial
We have failed them; our own wretched of the earth
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By Mathew K Jallow, Associate Editor
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The setting sun cast its reddish glow across the white-washed perimeter fence, where the crimson shadow of the tall east wall struggles to stretch out across the highway. The aura of serenity and somberness that surrounds the place was at once strange and awe-striking; mysterious and frightening. Darkness.....
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posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 10:55 PM by egsankara
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Draw lesson from NADD and address demands of democratic change
The Executive Committee of the United Democratic Party [UK Chapter] has reviewed PDOIS’s Public Notice of 15th August 2010 and noticed that PDOIS didn’t disagree with our position that NADD was designed to be an alliance as per the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding [MOU] that established it...
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posted on Sunday, August 29, 2010 5:46 PM by egsankara
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Echo's La Guinea Watch
Second round of election a watershed in Guinea’s journey
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APA - Dakar (Senegal) 8-28-2010
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The African Renaissance Forum (FORA,) an organisation based in Europe and gathering intellectuals from Africa and the Diaspora has called on Guineans to create the conditions for the "good organisation" on 19 September, of the second round of the country’s presidential elections.
In a statement copied to APA on Friday, the Forum also invited “Guineans brothers and sisters (…) to follow the advices provide...
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posted on Saturday, August 28, 2010 11:21 AM by egsankara
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U.S. Senate proposes withholding critical Aid to Gambia
--Hinges on release of political prisoners
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By Mathew K Jallow, Associate Editor
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The United States Senate has proposed withholding financial aid The Gambia desperately needs to keep the government functioning. The proposal is contained in a foreign aid Bill for the fiscal year 2010-2011. The funds proposed for withholding form part of a package......
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posted on Friday, August 27, 2010 12:47 AM by egsankara
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Not a good place for a country to be in
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By Mathew K Jallow, Associate Editor
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Take stupid, mix it with ignorance, add dumb, add moron, and flavor it with crazy; what you get is Yahya Jammeh and Mustapha Carayol, and everyone working with Jammeh in a decision-making capacity. Yahya Jammeh has evidently become practiced...
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posted on Thursday, August 26, 2010 11:46 PM by egsankara
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Echo's La Guinea Watch
Guinea’s Prime Minister Backs off Involvement in Presidential Run-Off
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Campoare meets front-runner Cellou Dalien Diallo
Peter Clottey 23 August 2010
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The president of Guinea’s Research Institute on Democracy and Rule of Law, a non-governmental organization, said the prime minister seems to have backed off support of of controversial amendments in both the constitution and the electoral code ahead of the 19th September second round presidential vote...
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posted on Sunday, August 29, 2010 10:03 PM by egsankara
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Breaking News
President Jammeh gives D3million dowry to new wife
--Dispatches memo to all foreign missions
By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief
EXACTLY two months to our scoop that Gambia’s megalomaniac Head of state, Yahya Jammeh, weds Ms. Alima Sallah (The Gambia Echo June 14, 2010), and the shameful silence and indignation that greeted our report, we report yet again, based on the veracity of our unimpeachable sources, that President Jammeh gives three million Gambian dalasis ($125,000 US dollars) as traditional dowry to his bride, Alima Sallah.
Alima Sallah, 18, Gambia's new First Lady
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posted on Saturday, August 21, 2010 6:05 AM by egsankara
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Echo’s La Guinea Watch
BOUBACAR DIALLO, Associated Press Writer
CONAKRY, Guinea (AP)
Cellou Dalien Diallo at The U.N.
Guinea's interim prime minister said Sunday he's not backing a candidate in next month's historic presidential run-off election despite allegations he favors the underdog and is trying to manipulate the outcome...
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posted on Monday, August 23, 2010 7:54 AM by egsankara
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Commentary
We are all Gambians, and will remain so, and that is all that counts
By Mathew K Jallow, Associate Editor
The recent outbursts of often vexing, but always internecine diatribes between the two polar opposite nemesis; UDP’S unofficial representatives, and PDOIS and its Diaspora proxies, like all their previous bursts....
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posted on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 1:17 PM by egsankara
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