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. […]
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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 […]
Discontinue Inter-party Talks Until…
Discontinue Inter-Party Talks Till These 6 Conditions are Met! According to the privately owned Gambian daily, The Point, all the seven registered opposition parties have been locked in talks with the ruling APRC just three weeks after the coldblooded murder of Solo Sandeng, a UDP militant and the arrest 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 […]
State Produces Tortured Protesters
The tyrannical regime of Yahya Jammeh has finally blinked and produced four of the missing April 14th peaceful protesters demanding for electoral reforms ahead of December presidential elections. The embattled government today paraded Nokoi Njie, Fatou Camara, Fatoumata Jawara and Modou Ngum in High Court in Banjul. These peaceful protesters […]
UDP Puts Forward Its Demands
The woman managing the state-sponsored crisis of the Gambia’s main opposition United Democratic Party has issued a press statement listing the party’s uncompromising demands. Mariam Secka’s demands include unconditional release of all detainees, and that investigation be launched on the reported death of Solo Sandeng and brutal torture of detainees. […]
I’m Not Blaming OJ Jallow But…
By Pata PJ (Senegal) I got the chance to listen to #OJ Jallow’s interview on Gainako. Here is my take: GAAARRBBBAAAGGGEEE! GARBAGE. And here is why: Nobody is forcing OJ to take to the streets. HE promised it. OJ was single-handedly the only opposition party leader to have promoted and […]
An Open Letter To All Gambians
My fellow compatriots, what is going on in the Gambia is not a laughing matter, it is a matter of life and death, a matter of democracy and dictatorship, a matter of impunity and rule of law. Those who can find room to laugh, those who can find room to […]
Gambia Protest Trial: Banjul Gridlock
“Students and civil servants walking on foot to Banjul as traffic jam is causing hours of delay. People getting out of cars and walking since that is more faster. Police asking for ID cards, with Police Intervention Unit officers mounting more checkpoints,” said a passenger at Denton Bridge, few miles […]
Gambia Searches For Deadly Poison
The Gambia’s Interior Ministry, headed by one of President Yahya Jammeh’s purported killer machines, appears to be searching for deadly poisonous substance. Interior Minister Ousman Sonko has his hands dirtied with innocent Gambian blood, sources alleged. The tip-off landed on Kairo News desk last night. A reliable security source called […]
President Jammeh Crosses The Red Line
The Chief Imam of Detroit Islamic Center has called on Gambians to “invest their energy, time and resources in liberating their country from tyranny.” In his weekly Mandinka sermon on Kairo Radio, Imam Momodou Ceesay said it was about time that Gambians defended themselves from President Yahya Jammeh who “is […]