The Gambia government has unexpectedly withdrawn police protection at the United States Embassy in Banjul, forcing the mission to close all non-essential services on Thursday, June 9. The news — contained in a security alert message for United States citizens — came at a time when the Jammeh government has […]
Month: June 2016
President Sall Must Stop Appeasing Tyranny And Speak Up!
President Sall Must Stop Appeasing Tyranny and Speak Up! According to a Saturday 4th June publication of the Senegalese newspaper, the “Enquête,”a former member of the Jammeh’s presidential guard, Musa Sarr, narrowly escaped being abducted by agents of the Gambian secrete service to be taken across the border to face torture […]
Halifa: ‘Gambia Is At A Crossroads’
THE GAMBIA’S FUTURE IS IN THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE Escalating tensions or a move towards an inclusive Democratic Secular Republic Issued On Behalf of The Central Committee by Halifa Sallah, Secretary General and Presidential Candidate 7 June 2016 The Gambia is at a crossroads. We either take the route […]
Darboe & Co Trial: Lawyers Walk Out Of Court
Some news just in stating that drama unfolded at the High Court in Banjul today where lawyers defending remanded opposition protesters and supporters walked out of court in protest against the judge’s condoning of travesty of justice. Supporters and family members of the defendants also walked out, leaving the court […]
Yaya Jammeh’s Dictatorship – ‘The Greatest Trial For Gambia’
Fellow Gambians, To add my voice to the current terse debate and discussions about our beloved country’s predicament and recent events. Indeed much have been said and continue to be but I would rather approach it from a sanguine perspective and where possible underpin my arguments with divine texts and […]
Good News For Remanded Protester
Who says babies don’t have a stake in the struggle to liberate the Gambia from the clutches of dictatorship? A month’s old baby Aisha Fatty gained media limelight after she was detained with her mother who joined protesters to demand the release of her detained husband. Aisha and mother have […]
George Christensen: The Demise Of An Icon
By D. A. Jawo, media consultant, freelance consultancy and training With the untimely death of George Christensen, the Gambia, and indeed the entire African continent has lost not only a pioneering broadcaster but also an uncompromising defender of free expression. George left a comfortable life in the United Kingdom to […]
Gambia’s Interior Minister Sonko Seeking To Defect
You know the regime is in deep trouble when the de facto Number Two man in the murderous regime of Yaya Jammeh is seeking to defect, according to a source close to Senegalese intelligence. Ousman Sonko is known to be one of Yaya Jammeh’s closest confidante and a prolific torturer […]
Why Should We Celebrate Failure
We Gain By Ignoring To Celebrate Failure Let’s boycott the coming July 22nd celebration as a sit down strike and exercise our rights of freedom of choice. It is not only the 22 brutal years of arrest, detention, intimidation, torture and killing of innocent Gambians that the people of Gambia have to […]
Pressure Mounting On Gambia Over Prolonged Political Crisis
As President Yahya Jammeh failed to turn up to the just concluded ECOWAS Summit in Dakar, the Gambia continues to be under mounting pressure over the prolonged political crisis marked by draconian crackdown on the opposition. “It is overdue for ECOWAS to take action against Gambia,” Mai Ahmad Fatty of […]
An Open Letter To ECOWAS Leaders
Dear Leaders, Dear President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, In the same way the West African Head of States do not wish to have Yaya Jammeh head the organization is the same reason why Gambians do not want Yaya Jammeh as president of the Gambia anymore. For 22 years your organization […]
Article 19’s Chief Speaks Out
Article 19’s Fatou Jagne Senghore Speaks Out Following the repressive events of April 14th and 17th when one Gambian opposition party leader was tortured to death and nearly all the executive members of the party were arrested and taken to court to be slammed seven charges related to peaceful protest march. “…..The Gambian-born […]