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Why Should We Celebrate Failure

We Gain By Ignoring To Celebrate Failure Let’s boycott the coming July 22nd celebration as a sit down strike and exercise our rights of freedom of choice. It is not only the 22 brutal years of arrest, detention, intimidation, torture and killing of innocent Gambians that the people of Gambia have to […]

News

An Open Letter To ECOWAS Leaders

  Dear Leaders, Dear President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, In the same way the West African Head of States do not wish to have Yaya Jammeh head the organization is the same reason why Gambians do not want Yaya Jammeh as president of the Gambia anymore. For 22 years your organization […]

Society

Article 19’s Chief Speaks Out

Article 19’s Fatou Jagne Senghore Speaks Out Following the repressive events of April 14th and 17th when one Gambian opposition party leader was tortured to death and nearly all the executive members of the party were arrested and taken to court to be slammed seven charges related to peaceful protest march. “…..The Gambian-born […]

News

Protesters Still Around Despite Threats

Despite President Yahya Jammeh’s threat to “kill troublemaking Mandinka protesters,” United Democratic Party today hold protest outside the High Court in Banjul. Mr. Jammeh last week renewed his tirade on majority Mandinka ethnicity, threatening to “kill them like ants if they dare protest.” As shown in the embedded video, calabash-holding […]

News

Jammeh Talks And Acts Shameless

Truly dictators are shameless. How can Yahya Jammeh who kill Jolas, Fulas, Wollofs, and others shamelessly delude himself that only Mandinkas are against him? Gambians must end the curse of Yahya Jammeh. He talks Shameless, act Shameless, drive around Shameless, and attract Shameless educated folks. Yahya Jammeh your age old […]

News

ECOWAS Urged To “Punish Gambia”

The regional economic grouping has been urged to punish the Gambia government for its flagrant violations of the key protocol of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). This appeal is contained in a press statement issued by the Coalition for Change-Gambia and West African Civil Society Forum. Read […]

Politics

Genocide Looms Over Gambia

From the Manifesto of the People In the run-up to and during the Rwanda Genocide, elements in the Hutu-led government including the military, the ruling party and their youth thugs coined and propelled words such as cockroaches, vermins, rats, tall trees, long necks among other phrases to refer to the […]

Politics

Gambia Receives Civil Society Punches

The Gambia’s dictatorial government is once again at the helm of international criticism. The country receives punches from members of the West African Civil Society Forum (WACSOF) in the Senegalese capital Dakar. The latest punches are contained in a resolution passed by WACSOF forum prior to the 49th Ordinary Session […]

Editorial

The Video That Defines True Jammeh

President Yahya Jammeh is caught red-handed exercising his dictatorial tendency in a secret video. Gambian President barks at members of combined security members of Operation The leader who digs his finger into everything Gambian is heard barking ‘Stand at ease, attention’. The video, obtained by Kairo News, gives an insight […]