This is an alert that is worth writing about. It is meant to give the world a clue of what President Yahya Jammeh’s government is capable of doing. A paranoid government or a government that is scared of everything, including its own shadows, will do anything humanely possible to maintain […]
Month: April 2016
GDF Disburses Funds To UDP
PRESS RELEASE FROM GDF – GAMBIA DEMOCRACY FUND On 4/17/16, the leadership of United Democratic Party requested assistance to offset expenses incurred as they continue their mobilization efforts, which has taken a national dynamic. UDP also expressed concern that without urgent assistance, this goal will not be met. Heeding that […]
How Ousman Sonko Insults Gambians
Everyone should be asking about the whereabouts of the leader of the opposition United Democratic Party except The Gambia’s Interior Minister. Ousman Sonko puts aside shame, visited Lawyer Ousainou Darboe’s Pipeline home and asked about the detained opposition leader’s whereabouts. One opposition activist calls Sonko’s inquiry “a painful insult on […]
UN Chief Concerned About Gambia’s Use Of Excessive Force
17 April 2016 – Concerned about the apparent use of excessive force on peaceful demonstrators in Gambia after at least three people died in State custody, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on authorities to immediately and unconditionally release all those arrested during Thursday’s protest. In a statement from […]
What Lawyer Darboe Tells His Family
Shortly before taking to the streets, the Secretary General of United Democratic Party Lawyer Ousainou Darboe prepared the mentality of family members (wives and children). The somber address could only be compared to the statement of a soldier on a war mission. “I’m ready to go to the streets to […]
‘Solo Was Buried Like A Dog’
The leader of the opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) has expressed the way and manner his party’s newly elected Organising Secretary Ebrima Solo Sandeng was tortured to death. “We have gathered credible information that the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, Yankuba Badjie, unleashed his drunk hooligans on the […]
US Damns Gambia’s Severe Response To Peaceful Protest
The United States government has condemned what is calls “The Gambia’s severe response to recent peaceful protests.” In a statement issued by the Spokesperson John Kirby, the United States has called for “an immediate end to violence and urge all Gambians to exercise restraint and calm.” The statement is issued […]
Socialist International:Free Darboe and all Protesters
SI denounces criminal crackdown of demonstrators and arrest of SI member party leader in Gambia | 16 APRIL 2016 The Socialist International denounces in the strongest terms, the violent repression in recent days by government security forces of demonstrators demanding electoral reform and the right to free speech and […]
Finally civil disobedience must be the order
In any revolution, there are stages that it must go through. First are the complaints, then, the national and international exposure, then, peaceful protest and marches and finally civil disobedience must be the order of the day to end the revolution. ‘one catapult, stones, and old tires is the next […]
GCC Demands Unconditional Release Of Peaceful Opposition Protesters
Urgent: For immediate release Balangba The Gambia in a crisis, better still, Gambia is in turmoil and ECOWAS, AU and the international community are being notified of this ongoing tragedy. On Friday, a group of Gambians activists demanding electoral reforms, ahead of election in December, were arrested, but by Saturday, […]
Another Hero in Africa’s Tragic Hall of Fame
By Dida Halake In Dying Like Biko, Solo Sandeng Frees a Nation Let the day be etched in the minds of Gambians and Friends of The Gambia everywhere. Thursday 14th April 2016: The day Solo Sandeng led some forty colleagues in a peaceful demonstration carrying nothing more dangerous than a […]
UDP Worried About International Silence On Jammeh’s Brutality
PRESS RELEASE ON THE ARREST OF THE EXECUTIVE OF THE UNITED DEMOCRATIC PARTY (UDP) The leadership of the United Democratic Party (UDP) wishes to inform the international community about the continuing brutal crackdown of its entire executive members and other peace loving Gambians who were out this morning to demand […]