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 […]
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How Is Mugabe A Unifying Figure In Zimbabwe?
It is indeed true that ‘Silence in the midst of adversity does not represent peace, but fear’. Such a ‘fear’ is carried out by members of President Mugabe’s Liberation Movement, Zimbabwe African Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF). Their fear to stand up against the thirty-six year ruler has reached disturbing levels. This former liberation […]
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 […]
UN ‘Cancels Gambia Army Chief Visit’
A diplomatic source has told the BBC that the UN has cancelled the head of the Gambian army’s visit to Gambian peacekeepers serving with the UN mission in the Darfur region of Sudan. Gambian soldiers this week occupied the Gambian election commission’s headquarters in an apparent show of loyalty to […]
Jammeh On The Losing Edge; Even Jungulars Won’t Die For Him
The Gambia’s defeated President who wants to cling on to power by force is clearly on the losing edge. Besides getting mountains of condemnations from home and abroad, Yahya Jammeh thinks he can still get his way through. He banks hopes on the country’s divided army. What more is the […]
‘Gambia’s Election Challenge Is Immaterial’
The Speaker of National Youth Parliament has described as “immaterial” that the Gambia’s presidential election is rigged in favour of the opposition coalition candidate Adama Barrow. In a statement published below, Lamin Saidykhan wrote “observation mission found the December 1st presidential elections to be free, peaceful and credible and the […]
HURIDAC’s Open Letter To ECOWAS
Date: 14 Dec 2016 Our Ref: The Chairperson, The Authorities of Head of States and Government, The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Abuja, Nigeria. HURIDAC’S OPEN LETTER TO ECOWAS: ECOWAS TRANSISTION MONITORING MISSION SHOULD BE PART OF THE RESOLUTION OF THE UPCOMING ECOWAS SUMMIT ON THE TRANSITION CRISES […]
God Speaks Daily Except To Those Who Refuse To Listen
Faith and rationality with “Divine-Guidance” in human beings teaches that God do speak to relay to humans everything realistically, through daily manifestations of events whilst one aspires to learn from others recorded in the Indelible Inks of history; This is the end-game and final moments for restoration of democracy in […]
Senegalese Transport Union Threatens Boycott If Jammeh Remains Adamant
Senegalese transport union leaders have added their voice on the Gambia’s political crisis orchestrated by the outgoing President Yahya Jammeh, threatening to boycott trans-Gambia highway if the defeated leader remains adamant. In an unprecedented show of courage and defiance, Gambian civil society organizations and institutions have been speaking up on […]
Guinea-Bissau’s PAIGC Needs To Manage Their Organizational Fall-outs
This is a country in the Western wing of the African continent whom saw their independence from Portugal in Nineteen seventy four. Guinea post their multi-party legislative and presidential elections has never seen an elected leader finishing his term. From time immemorial there always rises a tag of war, worse […]
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 […]