Mr. Nfamara Jawneh, a reporter and Youth Forum columnist of The Point newspaper, left Banjul yesterday for the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya to attend a two-day international conference on African unity, which commences on 20 June.

Mr. Jawneh went via Dakar to Casablanca and then finally to Tripoli.

Speaking to this reporter shortly before his departure for Libya, Mr. Jawneh said the discourse of the conference would be on building a strong voice for support for an African union government, as suggested in 1963 by the late President of Ghana, Dr Osagyefor Kwame Nkrumah, and now fervently called for by the Libyan leader.

Mr. Jawneh thanked the Charge d’Affairs of the People’s Bureau of the Great People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in Banjul, Mr. Taher S. Daloub, for his concern and commitment to the development of The Gambia.

"The trip, no doubt, will give me the opportunity to know more about this great country of Africa - the economic, political and social fabric of the country," he said.

Mr. Jawneh is among a seventeen-member delegation, including the president of the Supreme Islamic Council, from The Gambia.