The Daily Observer (Banjul)
Pa Malick Faye
18 August 2008
Colonel Ahmed Bamba Ould Baye, the permanent secretary at the High State Council of Mauritania, last morning, had an audience with the vice-president, Dr Aja Isatou Njie-Saidy, in her office at State House, Banjul.
Mr Baye flew into Banjul as a special envoy of the head of state, General Abdul Azziz, who seized power in a bloodless coup on August 6.
Speaking to newsmen shortly after his audience with the vice president, the special envoy said his visit to Banjul was to convey a special message from General Azziz to President Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh, on the ways and means to strengthening the existing cordial relationship between Banjul and Nouackhott.
According to him, the coup in Mauritania is justified, because there was a total breakdown of democracy there. But he was quick to add that the junta is resolved to return the country to the path of true democracy, adding that the takeover has been welcomed by an overwhelming majority of legislators in Mauritania
VP receives Vieira's envoy
A special envoy of President Bernado Nino Vieira of Guinea Bissau, last Thursday, called on the vice-president and secretary of state for Women's Affairs, Aja Dr Isatou Njie-Saidy, in her office, at State House, Banjul.
After a closed door meeting with the vice-president, Ms Maria Da Conceicao Nobre Cabral, the minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Guinea Bissau, told waiting reporters that she was in Banjul in the service of President Vieira, who had asked her to convey a special message to "his brother and friend", President Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh.
She disclosed that the message centres on issues surrounding the already existing bilateral relations between the two countries, noting that President Vieira also seeks "to renew his friendship with his brother" [President Jammeh] in light of "the current situation in my country, Guinea Bissau", an apparent reference to the recent foiled coup plot in the West African nation.
The Guinean envoy described the situation in her country as calm, except for "some political tension". She assured journalists that the situation in Bissau was stable.
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