Yaya Jammeh’s biggest mistake is to have consciously social engineered to send hundreds of thousands of Gambians to exile. Since 1994, Yaya Jammeh wanted to change the demographic face of the Gambia by gradually replacing exiles with his Casamance brothers and sisters. He partly succeeded but little did Yaya Jammeh […]
Author: Kairo News
Dictator Jammeh Sets Gambia For Violent Change
By Max After a careful study of political situation of the country , I have the belief that Gambians must prepare themselves that Yahya Jammeh will be removed violently from power . This is the last feasible option left for oppressed people . All signs indicate that Jammeh will not […]
Tribalism: Constitutional Constipation
My Marxist/Leninist/Maoist Comrades cum Friends and I had been locked in disagreement. No matter how I marshalled my arguments I could not persuade them that Pan-Africanism was an African Personality to the World Working Class Movement. Indeed within Pan-Africanism we faced possible unnecessary “ruptures” between […]
How Yahya Jammeh Becomes An Embodiment Of Imbecility And Cowardice
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Gambian Judiciary Promoting Tyranny
The state vs Ousainou darboe and 19 others The disgraceful conduct on Wednesday last of the Judge trying the case of Lawyer Ousainou Darboe, we have to realize that this is a political case and not a legal case, and must be defended as such. The lawyers should not […]
Communique On ECOWAS Summit
ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES COMMUNAUTE ECONOMIQUE DES ETATS DE L’AFRIQUE DE L’OUEST FORTY-NINTH ORDINARY SESSION OF THE ECOWAS AUTHORITY OF HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT 4 June 2016, Dakar, Republic of Senegal E. Patrice TALON, President of the Republic of BeninFINAL COMMUNIQUE The session was attended by the […]
What Halifa Should Have Told Us
Mr. Halifa Sallah, tell us about your meeting with General Joseph Bassen prior to going to Dakar. The Gambia is a very small country and everything is known next day. Mr Sallah, you are not more educated than the rest of us to teach us anything NEW. What we need […]
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 […]
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 […]