The Gambia’s Interior Minister has responded to wisely circulated rumours milling in the country and in the diaspora that a curfew has since been imposed in Kanilai where irate supporters of former President Yahya Jammeh had violent confrontation with regional peacekeeping troops. The confrontation led to the death of one […]
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Bubacarr Badjie of NIA Must Be Released
The National Intelligence Agency (NIA) has bigger issues to address than continue the inconsequential pretence of calling itself the State Intelligence Service. As a security agency, the NIA is synonymous with utter lawlessness in the manner it conducted itself in the past. It was even performing the function of debt […]
Revisiting Jammeh’s Verbatim Tribal Slur
Transcript of Yahya Jammeh’s speech about Mandinka (Mandinka-English translation notwithstanding, we tried very hard to write as spoken.) Paragraphs are marked by time into the speech. 0:0 – Since 1994, all the trouble makers or those organizing demonstrations are Mandinka. Any Mandinka who follows their foot-step, Bilahi Walahi Talahi, I […]
Gambia National Army May Not Be Loyal – Watch Out President Adama Barrow
By Emmanuel Joof (Paps) The security of the country needs to be addressed seriously especially given the recent incidents in the Fonis. Unfortunately, we have an army that has been “tribalized” over a period of 22 years and comprising of MFDC rebels from Jammeh’s tribe (fighting for independence from Senegal) […]
National Assembly Should Enact Public Officers’ Declaration of Assets
National Assembly should enact Public Officers’ Declaration of Assets, Liabilities and Business Interests, and the Anti-Corruption Commission law. Alagi Yorro Jallow The Gambia needs a new caliber of leadership at all levels. What the nation needs is competent and honest politicians, those who operate with integrity and who are not simply […]
Foni Must Not Be Marginalised
Well, if the demo was planned and publicised on social media, then serious questions about competence need to be asked. Many will agree that the demonstrators have not given any legitimate reasons for taking to the streets, if as reported, their grievance was against the stationing of ECOMIG troops in […]
Arguable Causes of the Kanilai Protest
By Captain Ebrima Cambi A simple security analysis coupled with a bit of impeccable intelligence from the period of the political impasse to the day of the protest, shows that the protest was not intent on getting rid of the soldiers as the primary motive but a catalyst to an […]
ECOWAS Condemns Gambia Violence
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has “strongly condemned all forms of violence” in the Gambia. In a statement published below, the ECOWAS Commission calls for calm and restraint pending the outcome of the investigation into the fatal protest involving some Kanilai residents and the ECOWAS peacekeepers last […]
Abolish GNA, SIS To Arrest Biggest Wasteful Spending!
In these days of austerity and crippled Gambian economy, one of the great opportunities for cost savings for our current government is to abolish the military and the so-called State Intelligence Service (SIS). The absence of these military and spy agency expenditures could save a large portion of the national […]
Why Foni People Must Cool Off
The death of Haruna Jatta [a protesters who died of gunshot injuries] is unwarranted, a result of overreaction on the part of the ECOMIG peacekeepers and clearly a fatal miscalculation on the part of the peoples of Kanilai and Foni sympathisers of Jammeh. Despite the evidently agitary and provocative nature […]
Kartong Facebook Sensationalism
I will appreciate publicity of this piece meant to dispel the picture some agitators want to brush Kartong in paint as the abode of “resisters”. The so-called demonstration against the establishment of a fish-meal factory amidst claims of environmental damage has left much of the community members flabbergasted. The agitators […]
Of Gambia’s Protesting Soldiers
By Suma Jaffuneh The video of a Gambian soldier publicly expressing hatred for ECOWAS forces in Foni is indicative of the serious intellectual and psychological damages caused by Yahya Jammeh on all the fringes of the main force in charge of maintaining our territorial integrity. When a soldier is unable […]