By Amadou Dibba, UK Much has been made and written about the recent tirade by Yahya Jammeh against the Mandinka tribe, whom he believes always constitute the overwhelming part of efforts to discredit, or worse still cause instability in, his government. While such a theme is by no means new […]
Month: June 2016
Illegality Bedevils Gambia As Protesters Case Heard Outside Jurisdiction
The unexplained transfer of the trail of April 14th protesters to Mansankonko is yet another clear manifestation of the Gambia government’s disregard for the rule of law. There is no justification of transferring the case to a jurisdiction different from where the alleged crime takes place. Fatoumata Jawara and her […]
Gambia’s Sanxaanu Kaggoro Film Kaffo joins FEPACI
Prominent Gambian film scholar and director, Prince Bubacarr Aminata Sankanu has recorded another milestone in his patriotic mission of securing The Gambia’s place on the global film map. This development follows the admission of his high-impact Sanxaanu Kaggoro Film Kaffo (SANXAAFI) into the membership of the Federation of Pan African […]
GPU Presents 2015 Journalism Awards
Virtues and Benefits of Fasting
“O you who have believed, decreed upon you is fasting as it was decreed upon those before you that you may become righteous (tattaqun)” (Al-Baqarah, 2:181). Righteousness (taqwa) or God consciousness is the main theme of fasting and indeed chapter of the Qur’an, the longest chapter of the Qur’an. At […]
State Moves Remanded Opposition Protesters To Unknown Location
The United Democratic Party (UDP) has confirmed from multiple sources that an unspecified number of remand political prisoners who were arrested on April 14 2016 with Solo Sandeng have been removed from their prison cells and being transported to an unknown destination. While it is still not clear why the abductees […]
Of Jammeh’s Immoral Nigerian Judges
By Unbiased Prince Immoral Nigerian Judges employed by Yaya Jammeh to deface Probity, are Rudiments of Satanic Cataclysm on the Gambian Judiciary System and, on People of badly needing Statutory Ratification and that is without doubt!!! It’s now beyond the unfolding reality but well gone through the gable of not […]
Pharoah Of Gambia Has Spoken But…
A crusade against the Mandinkas of Gambia The pharaoh of Gambia has spoken, we don’t hear from Allah yet… Or should I say a President with a mission!! Dictator Jammeh should resign as president of the Gambia with immediate effect. The true accounts of what Gambian people have been going […]
The time is now for a Citizen National Conference in the Gambia
Whenever a nation reaches a point where no one knows where to go for peace to prevail in the country, the citizenry must call for National Conference of all stakeholders of society to converge, diagnose, recommend and make the people’s voice heard. There is a total impasse in the country […]
Rwandan Editor Cries For Gambia’s Mandinkas
Editor of Rwanda’s only English daily has written an editorial, urging the world to protect Mandinkas from being terminated by President Yahya Jammeh. In the editorial published below, the editor explained why the world must not sit idle and allow a replica of Rwanda’s genocide in which over 800,000 Tutsis […]
Letter to Yahya Jammeh, No. 3
By Foday Samateh In the wake of the mesmerizing heroics of Lawyer Darboe and his fellow freedom fighters, you couldn’t leave us alone. Like a mad fool terrified of being relegated to a mere afterthought, albeit an appalling one, you had to stomp upon the scene to distract our spellbinding […]
The Dice Has Been Cast!
By Gambian Outsider … a society that has for its religion hypocrisy and materialism coupled with love of human praise, insatiable desire to be known, and blaming God for their own faults deserves what it gets. Such a society is Gambia and Gambians get what they deserve – Jammeh- a […]