The missing soldiers are: Sergeant Abou Bâ, Sergeant Fulgence Antoine Manga, Chief Corporal Niane Diatta, Chief Corporal Pape Souaka Diouf, private Gana Sène, private Omar Thioye, private Atap Diémé and private Jacob Vincent Mendy.
A violent clash pitted soldiers from the West African Mission in The Gambia (ECOMIG) against suspected Casamance rebels during an operation against timber trafficking.
What really happened? According to cross-checks from the newspaper Le Quotidien, it seems that these Senegalese elements of Ecomig intercepted a truck full of wood, coming from Senegal, near Kambagol.
The occupants of the truck took the time to escape, after sabotaging the vehicle, to immobilise it.
The Army section, busy seeing how to transport the truck, was targeted by assailants armed with AK 47s and RPG7s.
They first acted in groups, then in sections, before being a whole company, according to the Senegalese soldiers.
It appears that it was a long-planned attack during which the enemy also benefited from the complicity, more or less passive, of the populations of the surrounding villages.
The general impression is that the Senegalese contingent would have fallen into a trap.
ASP Jahateh, who was being assisted by Warrant First Class 2231 Gibba and led by Superintendent Manga, yesterday announced the closure of the prosecution’s case involving Yakumba Jaiteh and Yusupha Jaiteh who were charged with assault and obstruction before Principal Magistrate Isatou Janneh-Njie of the Kanifing Magistrates’ Court.
The minister for Interior, Seyako Sonko, has disclosed before deputies that his ministry has collected over D45 million on Machine Readable Passports (MRP) in the first and second quarters of the year 2023.
The Department of Physical Planning on Monday commenced the demolition exercise of houses blocking believed to have been built on waterways at the Jabang Estate.
The Point can now confirm that there is no Gambian national among the first deportation flight from the UK to Rwanda following unsuccessful bid by lawyers and other representatives to block the aircraft that was supposed to transport asylum seekers to Kigali. They crossed into Britain from France via the English Channel.
