"Senegal troops move to Gambia border as Jammeh crisis grows" Topic

"Senegal gave him a midnight GMT deadline to quit and Nigeria has sent an air force contingent to Senegal in support of the possible intervention.

Wednesday was meant to be his last day in office but parliament has granted him three more months in the post.

It effectively stops successor Adama Barrow being sworn in on Thursday.

His shock victory in the 1 December election plunged The Gambia into crisis. Mr Barrow is currently in Senegal…."
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Armand

The Gambia has 2 infantry battalions and a handful of armoured cars……if they decide to resist it will be a short lived fight. The Senagalese defence budget is 9 times greater and has Nigerian air support…..a bit worrying perhaps after their inaccurate strike against Boko Haram last week.

I love how Nigeria sends an air force contingent when the country is still involved in combat against Boko Haram on their own turf!

Talk about bad prioritising skills.

Senegal and Nigeria..probably two others puppets of new world order or , in any case, financial lobbies…their action is an unacceptable intrusion into another state internal policy

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Never mind I don't like the dawghose.

Fatman

Nigeria also has the delusions of being a large African power.

Meanwhile the country falls apart and has been doing so long before Boko Haram appeared. It is basically a borderline failed state.

All politics are Local.

Nigeria is one of the richest countries in Africa, and the Christian south is growing rapidly. I wouldn't say it's a failed state or even a borderline failed state – it's really (at least) two countries mashed together with an insurgency in one that sometimes spills over into neighbouring territories. But the government is stable, power has successfully transferred through the ballot box, and the economy is doing well.

Nigeria finally seems to have a President who knows his backside from his elbow – hence the much better performance of the Nigerian Armed Forces against boko Haram.

Note in the tragedy alluded to above, the pilot did, I think, hit exactly what he was told to. Problem, as ever, is faulty intelligence.

As for this being an unacceptable intrusion… the action, if it occurs, is being done to ensure the democratically elected President of The Gambia can take office.

That seems to me to be entirely reasonable. Under the alws of The Gambia, the man in Government House now has no legal authority at all.

And, he's a 24 carat fruitcake… just about the only person in The Gambia who wnats it to be an Islamic Republic

Both Nigeria and Senegal have sufficient armed forces to get this done in a weekend. It'll be good practice for them. I really doubt there will be any fighting because I doubt the President is worth dying for.

Though they've done a lot of peace-keeping work so they're hardly a ragtag militia.

I helped train quite a few of those Senegalese battalions. Judging by how well diciplined they executed their UN and AU Peacekeeping missions, The Gambia President in waiting won't be waiting very long!

The folks in The Gambia deserve better and I would not put it past their military to take care of disposing the seated government by themselves.

All just my personal opinion, mind you.

BTW, I applaud seeing two more African Nation's military forces working together to uphold democratic principles without the need of outside interference!

Jerry Jeff (Waloff for "Thank You")

A stable country does not have massive militias raining chaos on the civilians or 2 million internally displaced people.

And none of the problems that Nigeria has have been resolved – not Boko Haram, not extreme corruption, not functioning government (ie government that delivers services, sitting in parliament doesn't count) not decaying infrastructure let alone any of the ethnic and religious problems, not poverty, not high inflation (9%, up from 7.8%).

As for economic growth in Nigeria, that's hilarious. It was about 6% thanks to oil prices. Now it's 3%.

That might sound like a lot but for a third world country it's not, especially when population growth is 2.6% Basically if you don't grow your economy faster than your population you're stagnating or going backwards.

If your economy is $1,000 USD and your population is 10 people, then GDP per capita is $100. USD If your economy grows to $1,030 USD but you population also grows to 103, then your GDP per capita is still $100. USD. Net gain is 0 (things are a bit more complicated in real life and the true outcome is uneven, especially in Africa).

Furthermore the whole trickle down thing isn't working in the West, let alone Africa, let alone countries reliant on a single main commodity and are extremely corrupt.

Nigeria isn't stable..but the new guy has only been in power for a year so give him time.

As for The Gambia…the Sengalese have gone in and the Gambian armed forces chief has ordered his forces not to fight.

but gentlemen…are you aware, despite those brilliant analysis, suggestions plus , as usual, very scholar and very democratic chirpings which , as always, i'm really amused to read again and again, that we are speaking of today's Africa?

And? What is your point?

Africans are quite capable of running democracies.

for example…which one ?

and also…pourcentage of "democratic" countries in the whole continent….and % / number of years of good governance/democracy…..

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