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 […]
Politics
Gambia Political Crisis; AU Chairperson Fully Supports ECOWAS
The current Chairman of the AU expresses its full support to the ECOWAS Summit Decision for a speedy, orderly and peaceful transfer of power to the new authorities in The Gambia The Current Chairman of the African Union (AU), H.E. Mr. Idriss Deby Itno, President of the Republic of Chad, […]
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 […]
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 […]
No Retreat, No Surrender
By Baba Galleh Jallow We the people of The Gambia are determined not to allow Yahya Jammeh to strangle our beautiful new Gambian renaissance. For 22 years, Yahya Jammeh has treated The Gambia as if it was his personal property and Gambians as if they were nothing but his personal […]
My President, The Final Hour Is Here
My Brother President Yaya Jammeh, The Final Hour is Here! My brother president, I say hello to you. I am addressing you at this point in time because I know life is hard for you. You are literally seeing your world crumbling in front of you, and there is nothing […]
Don’t Let Fake News Fake You Out!
By Alagie Yorro Jallow Fake news is so real and so pervasive that it already rings disturbingly familiar. It’s the production and dissemination of false information meant to influence the direction of our Gambian life by deluding anyone unsuspecting enough to swallow it. To our thinking, it’s a matter of […]
The Poisonous Albatross called The Gambia Army – Part 1
By Saul Saidykhan Let’s start by getting something straight outright: we do not have a national army in The Gambia. What we have is what Essa Bokar Sey calls “a criminal gang masquerading as an army.” Some prefer the term criminal Syndicate. I’ll use Ethnic Militia because I believe it’s […]
What Jammeh Wants
By Baba Galleh Jallow Certainly, Jammeh’s ultimate desire is to totally nullify the results of the December 1st elections and stay on in power. Over the past 22 years, he has repeatedly declared that neither elections nor coups can remove him from power. And while coups might be beyond his […]
Even Ouza Speaks Up; What About The Others?
Even the Senegalese pop-singer friend of the out-going Gambian dictator has appealed to the stray Gambian autocrat to re-think his decision not to concede defeat in the 1st December presidential election. Ouza Diallo called Jammeh’s behaviour “regrettable”. The Senegalese pop star who had spent years in the paradise-like Gambia of the […]
“Go!” – Jammeh Said To Gadaffy; “GO!” – The World Says To Jammeh
In Feb 2011 Yahya Jammeh turned his back on the man responsible for his regime’s survival from 1994-2000, Col. Muammar Gadaffy of Libya. Gadaffy then faced an onslaught from the West which ended up with his murder and overthrow. Jammeh, like Zuma of South Africa, asked Gadaffy to step down […]
Yahya Jammeh Must Stop Being Petty, Ghana Set A Good Example!
During Post Africa’s Independence from various European Countries there was Leadership -Transition change after long battles which saw Africans dying as they fought for their liberation. When the West eventually decided to let Africans lead themselves they had no option but to step aside. In essence, we received political power […]