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 […]
Author: Musa Saidykhan
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 […]
What Mandinkas Must Do About Jammeh
By Max Take it or leave, tribalism is institutionalized in the Gambia’s cultural, socioeconomic and political life thanks to Dictator Jammeh came. That has been his goal since the first day he stepped into Jawara’s shoes in 1994. Dictator Jammeh has been on record over and over condemning Mandinkas for […]
Protesters Still Around Despite Threats
Despite President Yahya Jammeh’s threat to “kill troublemaking Mandinka protesters,” United Democratic Party today hold protest outside the High Court in Banjul. Mr. Jammeh last week renewed his tirade on majority Mandinka ethnicity, threatening to “kill them like ants if they dare protest.” As shown in the embedded video, calabash-holding […]
Jammeh Talks And Acts Shameless
Truly dictators are shameless. How can Yahya Jammeh who kill Jolas, Fulas, Wollofs, and others shamelessly delude himself that only Mandinkas are against him? Gambians must end the curse of Yahya Jammeh. He talks Shameless, act Shameless, drive around Shameless, and attract Shameless educated folks. Yahya Jammeh your age old […]
ECOWAS Urged To “Punish Gambia”
The regional economic grouping has been urged to punish the Gambia government for its flagrant violations of the key protocol of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). This appeal is contained in a press statement issued by the Coalition for Change-Gambia and West African Civil Society Forum. Read […]
Genocide Looms Over Gambia
From the Manifesto of the People In the run-up to and during the Rwanda Genocide, elements in the Hutu-led government including the military, the ruling party and their youth thugs coined and propelled words such as cockroaches, vermins, rats, tall trees, long necks among other phrases to refer to the […]
Gambia Receives Civil Society Punches
The Gambia’s dictatorial government is once again at the helm of international criticism. The country receives punches from members of the West African Civil Society Forum (WACSOF) in the Senegalese capital Dakar. The latest punches are contained in a resolution passed by WACSOF forum prior to the 49th Ordinary Session […]
Muhammad Ali dies at 74
CNN) —Muhammad Ali, the legendary boxer who proclaimed himself “The Greatest” and was among the most famous and beloved athletes on the planet, died Friday in Arizona, a family spokesman said. “After a 32-year battle with Parkinson’s disease, Muhammad Ali has passed away at the age of 74. The three-time […]