By Max Here is the list of National Assembly members and their phones numbers. They are supposedly our elected officials and we have a constitutional crisis!!! Please call your parliamentarians and ask them to immediately impeach President Yahya Jammeh. It is time to prove to us they stand with the […]
Month: April 2016
Gambian Journalist Out Of Lion’s Den
Gambian journalist who had been detained indefinitely has escaped from the lion’s den. Alhagie Abdoulie Ceesay, the manager of Teranga FM Radio, was admitted at the main referral hospital in Banjul for the third time. He had reportedly escaped from his sick bed some time after midnight last week. For […]
Benefits Of Home Ownership In America
Recently as an African born Real Estate Agent in Knoxville, Tennessee; I’ve been engaged in a massive marketing campaign among African immigrants particularly Gambians to buy homes as it is a better option and investment than renting. One obstacle I encounter among many is the misconception of buying a home […]
MFWA Director Becomes ECOWAS CSO Boss
The Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa, Sulemana Braimah, has been appointed the Secretary General of a newly-established ECOWAS civil society platform on transparency and accountability in governance. The new platform, known as the ECOWAS Civil Society Organisations Platform on Transparency and Accountability in Governance (ECSOPTAG) was […]
5 Things Senegalese Will Gain By Toppling President Jammeh
By Dida Halake “The stars are aligned”, as astrologers and the superstitious might say: The Senegalese have endured 2 months of being re-routed around Gambia to reach their southern province; Gambians have endured 2 months of the border closure that has created scarcity of major goods in the country; And […]
Dictator Jammeh and the Mad Logic and Equation of Power
Of Mad Logic and Equation of Power – A Satirical Approach to Dictator Jammeh’s rule in Gambia. While we mourn the recent barbaric killings of our heroes like Solo Sandeng,we should not be surprised at the bloodthirsty nature of the tyrant we have as our head of state in Gambia. […]
Gambian Military In War Mood; Is Jammeh Smelling External Attack?
Gambians in the Greater Banjul Area and West Coast Region early Saturday morning saw columns of military vehicles moving fast to the coastal village of Kartong. The government’s failure to announce the reasons for the deployment of armed soldiers in hundreds in the strategic Kombo South village has left many […]
Senegal Help Oppressed Gambians
Thousands of Senegalese on Friday joined Gambians to protest against President Yahya Jammeh’s use of excessive force on innocent civilians. The protest, held in the Senegalese capital Dakar, provided an opportunity for protesters to display Dictator Jammeh’s tyranny, which include enforced disappearance and cold-blood murders of his opponents. Placard holding […]
Senegal Protest Threatens Gambian Dictator
By now, it is clear that Dictator Yahya Yahya Jammeh knows he is a thorn in everyone’s flesh. He is no longer a Gambian menace but a regional one. A single soul who goes around biting whoever he crosses path with as if he is a mad dog. Even the […]
Why Is ECOWAS Silent About Jammeh’s Brutality And Repression?
We vividly recall how Samuel Doe drove Liberia into civil war with his corrupt economic actions and, worse, the indiscriminate killings by his death squads marauding everywhere, exterminating innocent men, women and children. Even after the Lutheran Church massacre on July 29, 1990, when over 600 people seeking refuge there were […]
Gambia Gov’t Versus Al-Jazeera
Jammeh And Al-Jazeera, Please Listen!!! By Gambiano Al-Jazeera was already in The Gambia around August/September of 2015 about to film. But they were asked to stop filming because their permit was revoked. And the subject of their mission, in the direct words of Journalist Catherine Soi? Simple! “To objectively report […]
UDP Leader Takes On Gender Activists
The woman managing the leadership of the United Democratic Party (UDP) has protested against inhumane and brutal torture of peaceful opposition protesters, particularly vulnerable women. Yam Secka, the UDP deputy Secretary General, abhorred the tortures meted out on the party’s executive female members: Fatoumata Jawara, Nokoi Njie and Fatou Camara. […]