French President François Hollande said the Gambia’s President-elect Adama Barrow must be installed as soon as possible.” President Holland, whose country helped to flush out Cote d’Ivoire’s Laurent Gbagbo, wants outgoing President Yahya Jammeh to accept election defeat and hand over power. After a meeting with visiting Senegalese President Macky […]
Author: Musa Saidykhan
How Fact-checking Exposes Jammeh
A fact-check on Yahya Jammeh’s televised meeting with the so-called African Bar Association at State House on Tuesday has proven that Gambian leader is economical with the truth. 1) Defeated President Jammeh seriously erred when he compared the Upper River Region town of Garawol to Serrekunda in terms of population. […]
Clean Up – Barrow’s Herculean Task
Please allow me sir on behalf of my organisation to join the rest of Gambians and the world to send my heartfelt congratulatory message to you on the occasion of your clear victory in the December 1st Presidential election. Gambian people have spoken and chosen you as their President […]
Yahya Jammeh Remains Defiant; Refuses To Step Down
Gambian president Yahya Jammeh said he would not step down and condemned efforts by west African regional leaders to get him to hand over power after he lost an election to challenger Adama Barrow. The comments on state television late on Tuesday were a hardening of the veteran president’s position […]
INTERVIEW WITH MADI JOBARTEH
Yahya Jammeh’s recent move to call for peace and reconciliation has left many people flabbergasted as he continues to act against the will of the people. In this interview, an emblematic figure of Gambian civil society movement, took the opportunity to unveil the duplicity of the Gambian leader and his […]
Gambian Students In Cyprus Want Jammeh To Step Aside
Without any pressure or force after conceding defeat and congratulating the President elect, and also confirm that the Gambia election is second to none in term of fairness, free and transparency, the nation applauded, honored your bravery and maturity as a person. Importantly we the Gambian students abroad were also […]
GDF Remains Grateful To Donors
11 Gambian Diplomats Want Jammeh To Accept Defeat
At least 11 Gambian diplomats have written a letter to the Gambia’s outgoing President Yahya Jammeh urging him to accept electoral defeat and peacefully hand over power to the President-elect Adama Barrow. Below is the letter the 11 Ambassadors wrote to Yahya Jammeh. 18th December 2016 Your Excellency, […]
What Jammeh Doesn’t Understand
BY LIBERTY This article is in response to professor Baba Galleh Jallow’s article entitled WHAT JAMMEH WANTS. The professor has seen through Jammeh from head to toe. All the points raised by the professor are 100% accurate. Due to the quick thinking of all Gambians in particular the world in […]
British MPs Join Gambia’s Election Crisis
Members of the British Parliament have added their voice to the call for the Gambia’s outgoing President Yahya Jammeh to respect the democratic will of the Gambian people and hand over power to President-elect Adama Barrow. Through a Parliamentary Motion in the House of Commons, deputies also congratulate and applaud […]
JAMMEH’S SOOTHSAYER ENDS…
Inside Statehouse on Election Night and Beyond By Gambiano FIRST MESSENGER: Janjangburreh speakest with sanity, as doth their vote. And Banjul Central doth stay its way to our sway. Great Soothsayer arrives soon! SECOND MESSENGER: I wouldst Brikama swell with green and tilt to our vantage, while Serrekunda stirred by the […]
The Poisonous Albatross called The Gambia Army – Part 2
By Saul Saidykhan …Continued from Part 1 As I stated in concluding Part 1, I don’t see any point in engaging the Old Colonel. One therefore would like to engage the “Young Colonel” Lamin Gano hopeful that being smart he’ll see the light and learn valuable lessons from his past […]