Thousands of Gambians on Thursday line up the streets and the airport to accord a tumultuous welcome to their newly elected President. President Adama Barrow, who won December 1st presidential election, had flown to Mali for the Franco-Africa Summit and then Senegal where he stayed for more than a week. […]
Author: Musa Saidykhan
Of Jammeh’s Illegal Emergency Law
By Gambian Outsider! Below is what I wrote on January 17th, but did not have it published. Because of the ridiculous “debate” at the National Assembly yesterday, I decided to have this article published. What follows after “The End” is my observation on what is unfolding within the new administration. […]
We’re All Victims Of Disgraced Jammeh
By Sadibou Jatta Fellow Gambians, I am all over the moon in writing this piece. God has accepted one of my prayers to see a Gambia without Yaya Jammeh. Who would have believed this just two years ago? However God is good. I feel the same way Bishop Desmond Tutu […]
Appointments to the government must conform to law
From the outset, I contend that legality, its nurture and development, constitute the software of a meaningful democratic polity. Without it, the mainframe is but a mere carcass! Even a cursory examination of the architecture of The Gambia’s overall legal regime exposes the dual anomaly of laws that are differentially […]
Help Families With Info On Their Missing Sons
For immediate release Press Release from the Ceesay and Jobe Family; Requesting for help from anyone that may have Information on the two missing Gambian born US Citizens Like many families whose love ones disappeared without trace under the Jammeh regime, we the Ceesay and Jobe family have anxiously waited […]
‘Yahya Jammeh Killed My Brother’
The sister of the Gambia’s disappeared journalist is now convinced that Chief Ebrima Manneh had been killed by the former President Yahya Jammeh. The fall of the Jammeh regime and subsequent exiling of the tyrant leader has prompted families of missing persons to turn to the Coalition government for answers. […]
President Barrow Makes Another Key Appointment
Gambian President Adama Barrow has made another key appointment today. Retired General Masaneh Kinteh has been named the Special Security Aide to the President. Until his appointment, General Kinteh was the Gambia’s deputy Ambassador to Cuba. His recent appointment has been made public by the Spokesman of the Coalition government, […]
EU Parliament Wants Immediate Sanctions On Jammeh
In a strongly worded letter to the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, members of the European Parliament from the five major political parties want the European Union to immediately implement severe sanctions on former Gambia President Yahya Jammeh. The exiled former […]
The Unconstitutionality Of The Constitution
By Lamin Darboe (Leicester U.K) Numerous articles emerged since the appointment of Fatoumata Tambajang as Vice president and I observe majority of them missed a key ingredient of the constitution, that if natural justice and fairness, non-discriminatory function of a constitution. Some exposition dishonest and other seem to bother on […]
The Nama people ought to be repatriated
During the Herero Wars, the Herero and Nama people suffered a massive racial massacre and human squalor by the Germans who were seeking to overtake the then South –West African country which is today called Namibia. These racial atrocities took place from nineteen o four to nineteen o seven with […]
The Gambia: Jammeh Out, Barrow In: New Challenges
Successful transfer of power in the Gambia must lead to transformation of the country, this is the new challenge before the new President Barrow. The peaceful transfer of power in the Gambia has finally been resolved to a reasonable extent. Though this has not just happened, it has consumed […]
Interpol Arrest Warrant, Freeze Order, Travel Ban For Jammeh – Now!
The Gambia’s Departing Dictator Yahya Jammeh having emptied the Gambia’s Treasury of $11 MILLION, the new Government must issue an arrest warrant for him NOW – and get the UN Security Council to FREEZE Jammeh’s ASSETS WORLD-WIDE. In addition the UN-Security council must impose a TRAVEL BAN on Jammeh – […]