Author: Musa Saidykhan

Politics

EU Drums Up Ban On Gambian Officials

The European Parliament has passed a resolution expressing concern over the “rapidly-worsening security and human rights situation in the Gambia.” It called on EU and its member states to consider freezing all non-humanitarian assistance to the Gambia government and imposing travel bans or other targeted sanctions on officials responsible for […]

News

ECOWAS dismisses Jammeh’s Complaint

Yaya Jammeh’s compliant to ECOWAS on the Gambia – Senegal border closure that is now on its 12th week has been dismissed outright because Gambia’s non-observance of existing conventions, protocols and bi-lateral agreements. It turns out that The Gambia had not completed the ratification process of the regional body’s Convention […]

Society

Jammeh’s Way

Baba Galleh Jallow Occasionally, the excesses of a dictatorship get so outrageous that people get tongue-tied as to what else to say. How do we make sense of a consistently senseless pattern of behavior of a man who prides himself in going his own way, even if that way is […]

Society

Heavy Figuring Around Pipeline

News just in about a heavy fight between peaceful protesting Gambians and armed security officers at Pipeline. The said fighting comes after the security officers wanted to arrest the entire crowd of people gathered in the area. Earlier, bloodthirsty security officers fired live ammunition. It was not clear whether anyone […]

Politics

Dear Yahya Jammeh

Dear Yahya Jammeh, We understand that you are unhappy with your Inspector General of Police, Yankuba Sonko, because of the unexpectedly large number of protesters, the majority of whom are women. You wanted the women stopped at the Denton Bridge. What you fail to understand is that the climate of […]