A crusade against the Mandinkas of Gambia The pharaoh of Gambia has spoken, we don’t hear from Allah yet… Or should I say a President with a mission!! Dictator Jammeh should resign as president of the Gambia with immediate effect. The true accounts of what Gambian people have been going […]
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The time is now for a Citizen National Conference in the Gambia
Whenever a nation reaches a point where no one knows where to go for peace to prevail in the country, the citizenry must call for National Conference of all stakeholders of society to converge, diagnose, recommend and make the people’s voice heard. There is a total impasse in the country […]
Rwandan Editor Cries For Gambia’s Mandinkas
Editor of Rwanda’s only English daily has written an editorial, urging the world to protect Mandinkas from being terminated by President Yahya Jammeh. In the editorial published below, the editor explained why the world must not sit idle and allow a replica of Rwanda’s genocide in which over 800,000 Tutsis […]
Letter to Yahya Jammeh, No. 3
By Foday Samateh In the wake of the mesmerizing heroics of Lawyer Darboe and his fellow freedom fighters, you couldn’t leave us alone. Like a mad fool terrified of being relegated to a mere afterthought, albeit an appalling one, you had to stomp upon the scene to distract our spellbinding […]
The Dice Has Been Cast!
By Gambian Outsider … a society that has for its religion hypocrisy and materialism coupled with love of human praise, insatiable desire to be known, and blaming God for their own faults deserves what it gets. Such a society is Gambia and Gambians get what they deserve – Jammeh- a […]
Gambian Judiciary Promoting Tyranny
The state vs Ousainou darboe and 19 others The disgraceful conduct on Wednesday last of the Judge trying the case of Lawyer Ousainou Darboe, we have to realize that this is a political case and not a legal case, and must be defended as such. The lawyers should not […]
Communique On ECOWAS Summit
ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES COMMUNAUTE ECONOMIQUE DES ETATS DE L’AFRIQUE DE L’OUEST FORTY-NINTH ORDINARY SESSION OF THE ECOWAS AUTHORITY OF HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT 4 June 2016, Dakar, Republic of Senegal E. Patrice TALON, President of the Republic of BeninFINAL COMMUNIQUE The session was attended by the […]
ECOWAS To Establish Single Currency By 2020
The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS on Friday said notable progress has been made in its plan to establish a single currency by 2020 and the adoption of a single biometric identity card for member states. The Liberian Ambassador to Nigeria, Professor Al-Hassan Conteh, stated this in Abuja, […]
A Call For Immediate Action
Release Lawyer Ousainou Darboe, The UDP Executive, and Other Gambian Activists DearSir/Madam, I write to call on you, your organization, and government, to act in favor of freedom and justice, in the ongoing trial of the United Democratic Party Leader, Lawyer Ousainou Darboe, his party Executive, and host of other […]
UN Genocide Chief Damns Jammeh’s Inflammatory Mandinka Threat
The Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide has condemned President Yahya Jammeh for his inflammatory speech in which he threatened to eliminate the Mandinka ethnic group. Adama Dieng is profoundly alarmed by Jammeh’s unguarded public statement. At a June 3rd political rally at Tallinding, Mr. Jammeh […]
Jammeh’s Ethnic Vitriol Raises Concerns
President Yahya Jammeh’s threats “to kill Mandinkas like ants” have raised concerns about possible tribalisation of the Gambia’s politics ahead of December general elections. “I am shocked about the statement made by President Jammeh. Now, it is the Head of State who is trying to bring conflict among the tribes. […]
2 Years On: Gambia Yet To Comply With ECOWAS Court Ruling On Deyda’s Murder
Today June 10, 2016, marks two years after the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice found that the Gambian government failed to conduct a proper investigation into the murder of journalist Deyda Hydara. Hydara who was the editor of The Point newspaper was gunned down in a drive-by shooting by unknown assailants on […]