BY KARAFA BADJIE,OUR BANJUL CORRESPONDENT

A top official of Gambia's Immigration Department, has informed the Freedom Newspaper about a  recent "secret issuance of State Identity Cards" to non Gambians with the sole aim of giving them an opportunity to secure voters cards in the country's 2006, October Presidential elections. The insider intimated that those issued with ID Cards were mainly from the Southern  Province of Casamance, Senegal.

  AN ALERT FROM REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS, DISPATCHED TO OUR NEWS ROOM

Reporters Without Borders condemned an attack on Khalil Ould Jdoud, editor of the Arabic-language daily Al Akhbar on 15 February 2006 which began when a score of armed men sent by an ex colonel turned businessman burst into the newspaper's offices looking for him.

                    SOURCE: DAILY OBSERVER BANJUL

Sheikh Omar Faye, Director of Press and Public Relations at the Office of The President in Banjul "implored Gambians operating websites that were inimical to the image and interest of the country to support the national reconciliation bid instead of lingering in “rhetoric.”says the Daily Observer today. Omar, we will get back to you later, God willing. We also have a fitting reaction for the bogus statements issued by Neneh. If you leave in "glass's house, please don't throw stone."