This year’s Mother’s Day is not a celebration for the children of Fanta Darboe-Juwara. For more than two decades each year Fanta smiled as her children, husband and friends congratulated her for taking the pains, troubles and patience of going through Motherhood. Only those who go through it know how it […]
Author: Musa Saidykhan
UDP Lacks Faith In Gambian Courts
The deputy president of Gambia’s main opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) is appealing to the international community for help in seeking the release of party leader Ousaniou Darboe. Darboe and 38 other opposition members were arrested last month and charged with conspiracy to commit a felony. They had previously been […]
Analysis Of Gambia’s Political Crisis
This article does not provide answers to our current political crisis but rather seeks to provide brief analysis of some of the issues we are facing. My doors are however open to further analysis and way forward. SCENARIO ONE Lawyer Ousainou Darboe and co were last Thursday denied bail even […]
British Mps Damn Gambia Excesses
British MPs Condemn the Gambia government’s excessive use of force against peaceful protestors three weeks back. They call for a full and independent investigation into the deaths in state custody. More than 20 British MPs have signed a motion condemning the Gambia government and its security forces for using excessive force […]
Pharaoh And The Flatterer Magicians
When the architects of the Gulag of the New Islamic Republic of The Gambia arrogantly, and impudently railroad the state into a political and moral cul-de-sac or dead-end locally and internationally on the question of maladministration, perversion and sadistic practices, there is an aged old rhetorical device that is often […]
Re: Why Jammeh Whips His Brother
In as much as I see Ansumana an enabler of Yaya Jammeh, let us put the records straight. What the writer said is not the only determining reason why Ansumana was arrested. 1- Ansumana and Co; were under NIA financial investigations for the past 3 months ordered by a mad […]
Sheriff Challenged On Twisting Facts
By Malang Darboe I have not heard such soul-elevating sermon in years! Imam Ceesay has absolved himself of the indictment of history that: “a man dies in all that keep silent in the face of tyranny”. May the Almighty preserve him in health, strenght and and razor edged intellect to […]
Why President Jammeh Whips His Brother
Ansumana Jammeh Is Punished For His Protest Comments Another close family member of President Yahya Jammeh has tasted the Dictator’s long whip. Ansumana Jammeh, the former Gambian Ambassador to Qatar, is languishing in remand. The half-brother to Gambian leader was arrested, detained and paraded in court along with two others. […]
Joint Mission Holds Gambia’s Throat
The Gambia government has had its throat held for not protecting the rights of citizens, in particular, the freedom of expression, assembly and political participation. A joint mission involving ECOWAS, AU and UN mission that recently traveled to Banjul, wants the belligerent Gambian government to follow the due process of […]
Let’s Fire Up Calabash Revolution
By Lamin Saddam Sanyang, The Netherlands Twenty-two years of brutal dictatorship in our country must stop now. Too much of killings, tortures, rapes, unlawful arrests, humiliations, among other state-sponsored crimes, must come to an end. Following the unlawful arrest and killing of Hon Ebrima Solo Sandeng, a senior member of […]
UDP Alerts Leadership Poison Plot
We have established that The Gambia government through the interior minister Ousman Sonko has embarked on quest to acquire poison through illicit sources in Eastern Europe. The regime of Yahya JAMMEH has over the years employed various methodologies to carry out extra judicial killings and other atrocities ranging from outright […]
UN Inspectors Visit Mile 2
The embattled Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has swallowed his pride and allowed United Nations officials access to the Gambia’s Mile 2 Central Prisons located in the outskirts of the capital Banjul. In November2014, the Gambia denied the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns, and the […]