Gambia leader accuses West African bloc of declaring war

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Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh accused West African regional body ECOWAS of declaring war, after it said it was putting forces on alert in case he refused to step down at the end of his mandate this month.
Jammeh, who has vowed to stay in power despite losing a Dec. 1 election to rival Adama Barrow, also promised to defend Gambia against any outside aggression, in a New Year's speech broadcast on state TV.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ga...+World+News%29

Side note

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The ECOWAS Commission, the African Union Commission and the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) congratulate the people of The Gambia for peaceful, free, fair and transparent presidential election held in the country on 1st December 2016. 
The election was in line with the provisions of the ECOWAS Supplementary Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance and the AU Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance.

http://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/art...ntial-election

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Gambia: AU and UN laud firm stance of ECOWAS, 11 envoys desert Jammeh

The African Union (AU) and the United Nations (UN) have issued statements lauding the firm stance taken by the West African regional bloc, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

http://www.africanews.com/2016/12/20...desert-jammeh/

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Gambia crisis: Everything you need to know about the battle to remove president Yahya Jammeh

The tiny West African nation of Gambia is on the verge of a military intervention as its leader of 22 years, Yahya Jammeh, refuses to relinquish power to president-elect Adama Barrow.
Tens of thousands of residents have fled, as troops from Nigeria and Senegal prepare to invade the country and use force to install Mr Barrow as the rightful president on January 19.

What is ECOWAS and who is invading Gambia?
ECOWAS is the acronym for the Economic Community of West African States, the economic bloc made up of 15 member countries. Those countries are: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the president of Liberia, is the head of ECOWAS and has been heavily involved in negotiations with Mr Jammeh.
Military intervention in Gambia will mostly involve troops from neighbouring Senegal and Nigeria, which has the greatest military might of the region.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017...esident-yahya/

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Gambia Shudders as Defeated President Yahya Jammeh Tightens Grip Before Inauguration

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/w...rrow.html?_r=0

Senegal forces say poised to enter Gambia unless President Jammeh quits

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...ticle33655536/

Warning shots to dictators and would be dictators.

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Troops enter Gambia, strikes begin as defeated ruler clings to power

Yahya Jammeh still refuses to step down after President Adama Barrow was sworn in Thursday in Senegal

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gambia-...rrow-1.3942520

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Gambia: Security Council backs regional efforts to ensure peaceful transfer of power to Barrow

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.as...6#.WIFocoWcEUA

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Gambia's defeated leader has agreed to step down

'The rule of fear has been vanished from the Gambia for good,' President Adama Barrow says

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gambia-...down-1.3944301

Gambia's Jammeh agrees to go into exile as regional troops mass

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ga...+World+News%29

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Netanyahu: Israel seeks support of African states at UN

The three-day conference — entitled “Enhancing Sustainable Agricultural Productivity in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions” — was co-organized by Mashav, Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation, and the Economic Community of West African States, a union known as ECOWAS.
The delegates to the conference were the foreign ministers of Nigeria, Togo, Liberia, Guinea, Cape Verde, Gambia, and Sierra Leone; and senior officials from Benin, Burkina Faso, the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, and Senegal

Prime minister tells gathering of envoys to Africa that changing the continent’s voting pattern is a high diplomatic goal

“While there are many other goals, it outweighs them all,” he stressed, and predicted that “the day is not far off when we will have a majority [of support] there [in the UN].”

http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanya...-states-at-un/

predicted that “the day is not far off when we will have a majority [of support] there [in the UN]

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Trump reportedly to discuss NATO-style alliance between Israel and Arab states against Iran

http://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-february-15-2017/

cnav's thread from the past
Relaunching of the Mediterranean Union/1st summit of speakers of Parliaments

http://wedg.millenniumweekend.org/fo...=mediterranean

The Arab League which has become the Arab Union
The Arab League
1.Algeria
2.Bahrain
3.Comoros
4.Djibouti
5.Egypt
6.Iraq
7.Jordan
8.Kuwait
9.Lebanon
10.Libya
11.Mauritania
12.Morocco
13.Oman
14.Palestine
15.Qatar
16.Saudi Arabia
17.Somalia
18.Sudan
19.Syria
20.Tunisia
21.United Arab Emirates
22.Yemen

Arab League: Common market in 6 years, customs union next year
http://wedg.millenniumweekend.org/fo...ht=arab+league

http://wedg.millenniumweekend.org/fo...ht=arab+league

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Gambia: Towards SeneGambia Diplomacy

In an ever increasing globalised world marred by uncertainty and countless threats, relations between Senegal and The Gambia are at an opportune moment in coming to define what diplomacy and International Relations should look like across border lines. After twenty-two years of stalemate, evidently, change has come to the Gambia; and in President Barrow, Macky Sall has found an incredible ally to work with in rebuilding that trust and neighbourliness thereby promoting peace in the region and worldwide. And as technology brings people and remote regions of the world ever closer together, rational world leaders have come to realise that the solutions to modern security challenges and economic pressures are largely transnational which requires collaboration with other countries near and far. Engaging in a unifying tone, the long-overdue idea of Senegambia diplomacy should be formulated and unleashed as a tool of Foreign Policy at the supranational levels of politics. For starters, topology has ensured that the two countries are geographically combined, the people are practically the same in terms of culture, food, language as enunciated by historical factors, bar colonial experience sic. As of this day and forward, Dakar and Banjul should design and align ethical Foreign policy in a Two-States-Single-Foreign-Agenda in their dealings with the rest of the world.
As globalisation takes hold, cooperation and alliance amongst states is no longer a matter of choice, but an absolute-vital-necessity for nation-states. In recent decades, however, developing countries particularly those in sub-Saharan Africa have seen an explosion in population growth with a younger population demanding jobs and economic uplift from their governments. To effectively address those needs countries are vying for trade and business linkages with their counterparts, attracting Foreign Direct Investment inflows into their territories; but also collaborating on security concerns in tackling the complexities of our time. The alternative is worst as exemplified in the case of such hermit states as North Korea living dangerously given a century of endless possibilities. After World War Two, the success of Europe in a “Shared-Prosperity” formula has come to define and showcase that urgency as sustained peace and economic explosion through close regional collaboration ushered in  prosperous lifestyles for citizens across the European peninsula. Perhaps West Africa could learn a thing or two from this. Ideally, The Gambia and Senegal could offer a start, in softening such inter-linkages via Senegambia politico-economic and monetary collaboration.

http://www.freedomnewspaper.com/gamb...bia-diplomacy/


Supranational union

After the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, Albert Einstein spoke and wrote frequently in the late 1940s in favor of a "supranational" organization to control all military forces except for local police forces, including nuclear weapons. He thought this might begin with the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union, and grow to encompass most other nations, presenting this as the only way to avoid nuclear war. He broached the idea in a November 1945 and November 1947 articles in The Atlantic Monthly that described how the constitution of such an organization might be written. In an April 1948 address at Carnegie Hall, he reiterated: "There is only one path to peace and security: the path of supranational organization."[2] Thanks to his celebrity, Einstein's ideas on the subject generated much discussion and controversy, but the proposal did not generate much support in the West and Soviet Union viewed it with hostility.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supranational_union

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Question??? Are the US and Canada becoming one??? Even under Trump???

Unlike states in a federal super-state, member states retain ultimate sovereignty, although some sovereignty is shared with, or ceded to, the supranational body. Supranational agreements encourage stability and trust, because governments cannot break international accords at a whim.

Question ?? Is it wrong or when does it become wrong?

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I know in the scheme of things this doesn't seem important. The reason I post this stuff??? It shows just how much the "unions" operate and how.
In the Americas just ask Venezuela about the OAS(Organisation of American States) and what Venezuela is facing.

U.S., 13 Other Nations Demand Venezuela Hold Elections, Free Political Prisoners
http://wedg.millenniumweekend.org/fo...ight=Venezuela

AU calls for immediate engagement in spirit of pan-Africanism to overcome current impasse in Western Sahara

Addis Ababa, 25 March 2017 (SPS) - The African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council (PSC) Called for the immediate engagement of direct and serious talks without preconditions and in accordance with article 4 of the Constitutive Act of the AU to overcome the current impasse in the Western Sahara conflict, affirming that it remains actively seized of the issue.

http://spsrasd.info/news/en/articles...3/25/7939.html