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Guinean Legendary Musician Returns to the Twin Cities Friday, August 07, 2009 Checkout new Flyer!!
 July 30, 2009

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Birth Announcement:
July 29,2009

The Kenneh family and the Minnesota Mandingo Community has been blessed with yet another bouncing baby boy. Baby Kenneh was born on Monday, July 27, 2009 at Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) in South Minneapolis, Minnesota. The mother and the baby are in good health, and they have since returned home. The family can be reached @ 612-532-9685, See more pictures
Senegal Calls for Guinea to Honor Electoral Promises
Courtesy: VOA
July 28, 2009
Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade is calling for Guinea's military ruler to keep his promise to hold elections later this year.
When Army Captain Moussa Camara took power in Conakry seven months ago, he telephoned Senegalese President Wade and asked him to be the international spokesman for his coup.
With the United States and European Union condemning the military take-over, President Wade said Captain Camara was an honest young man filling a dangerous vacuum following the death of long-time leader Lansana Conte. Mr. Wade said the ruling military council deserved international support because it was promising to hold free and fair elections. Read detail
Liberians Mark 162 Years of Independence at Home and Abroad
Courtesy: VOA
July 27, 2009
Liberians at home and abroad are celebrating the 162nd independence anniversary of their country in many festive ways but with some reflections.
The official commemoration takes place Monday in the central city of Gbarnga. But for Liberians in the United States, the celebration began over the weekend.

The festivities on the grounds of the Liberian Embassy in northwest Washington, D.C. were complete with everything Liberian – the food, music, cultural performances and merchants peddling Liberian clothing and artifacts. Read detail
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Ivorian jailed for match stampede
Courtesy: BBC
July 25,2009
An Ivory Coast football official has been sent to jail for six months for printing fake tickets for a match marred by a deadly stadium stampede.
Albert Kacou Anzouan, head of the Ivorian Football Federation (FIF) match organising committee, was also fined $1,000 for manslaughter and fraud. Twenty people died and more than 130 fans were injured at an Abidjan stadium before a World Cup qualifier in March.
Thousands of "parallel" tickets were printed, the state prosecutor said. Read detail
Taylor: 'Sankor and His People Are Idiots'
Courtesy: Liberian Observer
July 24, 2009
THE HAGUE, Former president Charles Taylor, alleged to have been the main backer of Sierra Leone's atrocious civil war, stunned the court in The Hague Tuesday when he described Corporal Foday Sankor, the late leader of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and his people as a 'bunch of idiots'. Even though Taylor said he did not support Sierra Leonean rebels in the early 1990s, he told judges at the Special Court for Sierra Leone that he worked with them inside Sierra Leone to fend off attacks from the rival United Liberation Movement for Democracy in Liberia (ULIMO) armed group in Liberia. Read detail
Africa will not be colonised again: Gambian president on ICC
Courtesy: Gmabian News
July 23, 2009
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh on Monday called the practices of the International Criminal Court unacceptable and warned that Africa would not be colonised again.
Jammeh told state owned GRTS television shortly after returning home from an African Union summit in Libya, "What is also not acceptable is the fact that any Western country can have a court that can indict an African head of state".
"It is unacceptable and we are telling them enough is enough," he said."My position is that Africa will not be colonised again in any way. Our agreement is that Africa is a continent, we should be able to punish and try our people since we have been dealing with our own problems." Read detail
Defense Wraps Up First Week in Charles Taylor War Crimes Trial
Courtesy: VOA
July 22, 2009
Lawyers for former Liberian President Charles Taylor have wrapped up the first week of the defense case at his war crimes trial in The Hague. The former Liberian president is being charged with crimes against humanity in Sierra Leone.
Charles Taylor's defense case began on Monday and is expected to last several months. It is the first time an African head of state has been prosecuted before an international criminal court.
This week Taylor talked judges through his childhood, political involvement in Liberia and an American jailbreak. Read detail
The Life and Death of Alihadje Musa Konneh
By: Fofin Konneh
July 21, 2009
The Konneh family regrets to announce the passing away of their father, uncle, brother, and grandfather, Alihadje Musa Konneh of Jacob Town, Monrovia, Liberia. Alihadje Musa passed away at his residence on Friday, July 17, 2009.

The late Alihadje Musa was born in Tchen, Grand Gedeh County in 1930. He went to Guinea, as a young boy, to go to the Koranic School and later returned to make business between Liberia and the neighboring African Countries of Ivory Coast, Guinea, Mali, Borkina Faso, Niger, etc. He settled in Bahn, Nimba County in the early 1960s to do Diamond business and later moved together with his friends (The late Hon Musa Gboni Kamara, Sekou Bility and otheres) to Monrovia and then to Bomi Hills, Bomi County where he lived for most of his life. Read detail
Gov't Debunks Taylor's Testimony
Courtesy: Liberia Observer
July 20, 2009
MONROVIA, The Government of Liberia has categorically dispelled testimony made by former Liberian president Charles Taylor that President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was the 'main fundraiser' of the disbanded National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) group to unseat former
Liberian president, the late Samuel K. Doe, with a revolution stage in December 1989. Clutus Sieh, Deputy Minister for Administration at the Ministry of Information, told reporters yesterday, July 16, 2009 at a regular press conference in Monrovia that the testimony of Mr. Taylor implicating President Sirleaf as the main fundraiser of the NPFL 'is a falsehood and a diabolical lie meant to implicate the sitting President of Liberia. Read detail
Taylor Alleges US Help in ‘Jailbreak’
Courtesy: Liberian Observer
July 17, 2009
THE HAGUE, In a dramatic day of testimony, former Liberian president Charles Taylor told of his 1985 escape from an American maximum security jail with alleged United States government help, only days before a failed US-backed coup attempt to overthrow the then Liberian government. With his prison cell unlocked by a US prison guard late one night in November 1985, Taylor walked out of the maximum security area of the Plymouth County Correctional Facility in Massachusetts, he told the Special Court for Sierra Leone yesterday. Read detail
Death threats sent to Liberia TRC
Courtesy: BBC
July 16, 2009
Members of Liberia's truth commission have received phone death threats since recommending President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf be barred from office.
The BBC's Jonathan Paye-Layleh says some of them have gone into hiding and turned off their mobile telephones.
In a report, the commission recommended a 30-year ban for senior politicians for their role in the civil war. Read detail
Vote Registering Begins in Guinea
Courtesy: VOA NEWS
July 16, 2009
The task of registering voters is to begin again in Guinea, after a pledge by ruling military leader Moussa Dadis Camara to hold elections this year.

When Guinea's ruling military leader, Moussa Dadis Camara, appointed the country's new Supreme Court president last week, he took the opportunity to address rising international criticism of his administration's lack of progress in the election process. Voter registration was to recommence Monday. Read detail
What Is the Mission of TRC: reconciliation or prosecution?
By: Nvasekie N. Konneh
July 15, 2009
When Liberians overwhelmingly embraced the war launched by the NPFL in the early 90s, did they think that the war was going to be a Tea Party? Even from that very beginning when there were widespread reports of ethnic genocides committed by the rebels, wasn’t everyone looking the other way while at the same time condemning the Doe’s government? Fast forward 19 years or more, are they the same people (who overwhelmingly embraced the war) calling for war crime trial now? If they embraced the war from the beginning, knowing fully well that war is not a Tea Party, how hypocritical can they be now calling for war crime trial? What is the mission of TRC: reconciliation or prosecution?
Caution-Slow Down Mr. President Elect, Mohammed Dukuly
By: Sekou Kenneh-OPINION LEADER, MN
July 14, 2009

While I applaud Honorable Mohammed Dukuly for his historic election, I am equally concern about the level of impatience and gross-insubordination demonstrated by his recent appointments and demands made to the present Felmausa leadership. Read detail
Mali's President Says in 'Total Fight' With Al-Qaida
Courtesy: VOA
July 14,2009
Mali's President Amadou Toumani Toure says his government is waging a "total fight " against al-Qaida, following deadly battles with the group's north African branch last week.
Mr. Toure said late Monday that al-Qaida members in the Sahel and Saharan regions, along with their accomplices, are Mali's enemies.
He said Mali must work with neighboring countries to win the battle and called for a regional summit to be held to send a "strong signal" to al-Qaida and all armed groups in the Sahel. Read detail
Guinea on alert for 'attack plot'
Courtesy: BBC
July 13, 2009
The military government of Guinea says it has put the army on high alert at all border posts after uncovering plans for an attack on the country.
The West African state said armed men were gathering on the borders with Guinea-Bissau and Senegal to the north and Liberia to the south.
An announcement on state-run national radio said drugs cartels were believed to be behind the plans. Read detail
Liberia Refutes Guinea Conakry's Coup Plot Allegations
Courtesy: VOA
July 13, 2009
Liberia is denying accusation by Guinea Conakry that drug traffickers and their allies in neighboring countries were planning to overthrow the military government of Captain Moussa Camera.
Guinean state media said over the weekend that Captain Camera put the army on high alert after learning of the plot allegedly from fighters in Guinea-Bissau and Liberia. An official statement read on state television did not say where the government was getting its information. Read detail
Responding to Varmuyan Sirleaf's Infantile Rebuttal to My Article
By: Volunteer Reporter
July 12, 2009

I have just read the infantile reaction of Varmuyan Sirleaf to the article on the Mandingo Nations website about the President Elect Mohammed Dukuly not wanting to pay on two different occasions during the just ended FELMAUSA Convention in Minnesota. If I was Varmuyan, I would let the sleeping dog lie or come out with something intelligent and convincing enough. By coming out with some lame excuses, he is prolonging a matter that should be buried with simple acknowledgement of a mistake. Read detail
A rebuttal to the July 7, 2009 publication written by an unknown volunteer entitle: President elect, Mohammed Dukuly Celebrates his Victory with bad precedent!
By: Varmuyan A. Sirleaf
10 July, 2009
Please allow me a space on your web site to write a rebuttal to the allegation leveled against FELMAUSA’s President Elect Hon. Mohammed Dukuly regarding the incident at the Debate Hall in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Friday July 3, 2009. This story appeared in the July 7th, 2009 publication of the Mandingo Nation Website. It was written by an unknown Volunteer reporter.
We as Mandingo people are blessed at last to have someone in our midst that can stand up and advocate for his rights and the rights of others regardless of the ramification. Read detail
President Obama Arrives in Ghana and Addresses Parliament Saturday
Courtsy: VOA
10 July, 2009
United States President Barack Obama is scheduled to meet Ghana's President John Atta-Mills when he arrives Friday in the capital, Accra.
Ghanaian officials said that as the first black U.S. President, Obama would be given a traditional hero's welcome or as they say in Ghana, "Akwaaba".
President Obama, who is on his first official visit to Africa since becoming president, is also scheduled to address Ghana's parliament at the international conference center on Saturday. Read detail
Ghana to Deploy 10,000 Police for Obama Visit
Courtesy: VOA
10 July, 2009
Authorities in Ghana say they will deploy 10,000 police officers to handle security for a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama this week.
Mr. Obama is due to arrive in the West African country late Friday for a 24-hour trip, his first to sub-Saharan Africa as president. His visit is expected to generate large crowds eager to see the first U.S. president of African descent.
The White House says Mr. Obama chose Ghana as his first destination in sub-Saharan Africa because of what he considers to be its strong democratic system. Read detail
Birth Announcement:
July 09, 2009

The Keita family and the Mandingo community has been blessed with a bouncing baby girl. She was born on Tuesday, July 7, 2009 at the North Memorial Hospital in Minneapolis. Baby Keita and her mother Haja Bility are in good health; they are expected to return home soon. To contact the family, please call-612-598-7598
Former Liberian Warring Factions Criticize Truth Commission Final Report
Courtesy: VOA
July 08, 2009

 Some former warring factions in Liberia’s recent civil conflict say the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) is biased and politically motivated.
The Commission was established in 2003 under the Accra Comprehensive Peace Accord to identify the root causes of the Liberian civil war and determine those who responsible in committing domestic and international crimes against the Liberian people. Read detail
President elect, Mohammed Dukuly Celebrates his Victory with bad precedent!
By: Volunteer reporter
July 07, 2009
To enter the debate hall on Friday July 3, 2009, everyone, including the candidates, was required to pay $10.00. No one but candidate Mohammed Dukuly thought he shouldn't have to pay any money to enter. Candidate Dukuly's refusal to pay the $10.00 caused some commotion at the gate where he was told that everyone including President Richmond Konneh had paid and he was no exception. Even with this information candidate Dukuly still refused to pay the $10.00. The situation was only rescued from degenerating into a bigger commotion when one of his supporters paid the money. He was lectured by the gatekeepers that this gate intake was intended for FELMAUSA's coffer and it is one of the strategies in place to raise funds for the organization and without such FELMAUSA cannot function as an organization. Read detail
Angry Delegates Kick Prez Richmond & VP Mamadee Sesay Out of Office
By: Texas News Services
July 4, 2009.

Since yesterday, July 3, 2009, delegates from eleven states have been arriving in the twin cities, Minnesota, to attend the third annual convention of Felmausa.
Yesterday, debates were held, where each candidate, contesting for the presidential, VP of Administration, VP of Operations, Secretary, and Board Chairman Positions had the opportunity to prove to the delegates that he is a better leader to serve Felmausa and the Mandingo community than his opponents. Read detail

Public Service Announcement:
July 01,2009
The publisher and the web management team of Mandingo Nations WILL NOT be attending Felmausa’s upcoming events in the Twin cites, Minnesota. Meanwhile, the site's management is actively seeking volunteers to cover the events on its behalf for the benefit of its many readers/visitors across the globe. The management is also considering purchasing credible, but out of the ordinary stories from the events.

To be a volunteer reporter, or provide story for a very handsome reward, please call 612-203-3820, or simply email your story (ies) to editors@mandingonations.com.

Signed: Management
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Liberia Truth and Reconciliation Commission Retracts Controversial Report
By: Kate Thomas
Courtesy: VOA
July 03,2009

Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission has retracted a report that suggests President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf be barred from holding further public office.Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission has retracted its final report, just hours after publishing it on its Web site. Read detail
Orgtema President, Mohammed S. Kamara Takes On New Responsibility
July 02, 2009
By: staff writer, Mandingo Nations
The Liberian Community Association (D/FW) and Diaspora elected new corps of officers on Saturday, June 27, 2009, in Dallas, Texas.  Those elected were Ms. Lorena Travell president, and Mr. Mohammed S. Kamara vice president. Prior, Mr.Kamara had been heading the technical department of the organization, including managing its website. Read detail
Sere Sackor in Pictorial
By: Makula Bility Kenneh
July 01,2009

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The Liberian Mandingoes – A Way Forward
By: Mohammed Dukuly
July 01,2009
The ultimate decision of each one of us to be first and foremost a Liberian and then Mandingo is one that Allah decreed out of His rahmat(mercy) to mankind fifty thousand years before He created the heavens and earth; as such, no one has the slightest ability to alter God’s will. Rather, it becomes imperative for us as a people and servants of Allah to show gratitude to Him by capturing the true sense of humanity in every human being unheeded of anything whatsoever. In the same vein, I would say that being Liberians and Mandingoes is an inalienable privilege God bestowed upon us; we can’t refuse it; didn’t seek it; didn’t choose it. Read detail
Mohammed Dukuly addresses FELMAUSA Chapters,
June 30,2009
The tides could not have been any higher; the competition any stiffer, the issues any more sensitive, our community any more energized, the political atmosphere of our elections any more stimulated, and the future of our unborn generations any more tenuous.
These are the moments that will try our soul, test our resilience, challenge our integrity, and re-examine the true essence of our existence. If nothing else, such times and activities should challenge our utmost ability to rise above it all, and stand tall as one united front against the very petit issues that tear us apart and keep our community backward. Read detail
Unraveling the sycophantic and hypocritical nature of the so-called “National Mandingo Caucus of Liberia ”, and the danger it poses to the political and social survival of the Mandingo ethnic group in present day Liberia :
By: Jesefu Morris Keita, Jr.
June 30, 2009
History is replete with numerous instances of situations in which a narrowly defined group or clique always desire to gain worldly riches and power at the expense of the majority by hijacking and at length torpedoing their genuine struggle for political and social liberation from the shackles of marginalization, political suppression and denial to equal opportunities. This is the sad state of affairs in which the Mandingoes of Liberia find themselves with the “National Mandingoes Caucus” serving as the elite who have now sworn to both heaven and earth that it must exploit its own people for innately selfish reasons. Read detail
Vowing a Consultative and Accountable Leadership, Vee-Musa Enters Race
By: Campaign to Elect Vee-Musa Fofana as V. P. Administration
June 28, 2009
The struggle to integrate the Mandingo people into mainstream Liberia in terms of political, social, and economic empowerment must begin in house. To aspire for national acceptance and integration, we as a people must first cultivate a responsible and trusting capacity that speaks to our readiness for said cause. To this end, there is a need to work from our local organizational levels to instill the virtues of a consultative-oriented, financially accountable, and unity-focused leadership. With this in mind, our candidate, Vee – Musa Fofana, an economist, a
ccountant, and educator is waging his campaign for V. P/Administration for FELMAUSA. Read detail
DEATH ANNOUNCEMENT
By: Musa Fofana, Atlanta, GA
June 27, 2009
The Atlanta Mandingo Community Is saddened to announce the death of Brother Sidiki Kromah. This sad event occurred on Friday June 26, 2009 at the East side Heritage Center in Snellville, GA.

Brothet Kromah passed after a protracted illness. May Allah have Perfect mercy upon him. Ameen
He will be buried in accordance to Islamic rites on Saturday June 27, 2009 after the Zhuhur Prayers at the Georgia Islamic Institute in Lawrenceville GA. The address to the Masjid is 177 Simonton Road, Lawrenceville, Georgia 30045. For Directions Please contact the following persons Mr. Bangalee Donzo @ 404-217-2238
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The Mamadee Sesay Campaign
Fourteen Points Platform
By: Musa Fofana, Chief Public Affair,
Atlanta, GA
June 27, 2009
As presidential candidate, the responsibility for the overall organization and management of my campaign lies under my leadership. I therefore want to make sure that we have clearly defined expectations for ourselves and for those we want to lead.
One way I think we can achieve success is to make sure we set our goals and specify how we intend to achieve those goals in the short and long run. In so doing, we need to come out with a platform that will set the tone of our campaign, shows the motivation and enthusiasm of my candidacy as well as excite our supporters
As an organization still in its infancy, I sincerely believe that what lies behind us is far lesser than what lies ahead of us. We however cannot tap into that potential blindly; we need a guide to lead us through. Read detail
 

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