Thousands of Senegalese on Friday joined Gambians to protest against President Yahya Jammeh’s use of excessive force on innocent civilians. The protest, held in the Senegalese capital Dakar, provided an opportunity for protesters to display Dictator Jammeh’s tyranny, which include enforced disappearance and cold-blood murders of his opponents. Placard holding […]
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Senegal Protest Threatens Gambian Dictator
By now, it is clear that Dictator Yahya Yahya Jammeh knows he is a thorn in everyone’s flesh. He is no longer a Gambian menace but a regional one. A single soul who goes around biting whoever he crosses path with as if he is a mad dog. Even the […]
Why Is ECOWAS Silent About Jammeh’s Brutality And Repression?
We vividly recall how Samuel Doe drove Liberia into civil war with his corrupt economic actions and, worse, the indiscriminate killings by his death squads marauding everywhere, exterminating innocent men, women and children. Even after the Lutheran Church massacre on July 29, 1990, when over 600 people seeking refuge there were […]
Gambia Gov’t Versus Al-Jazeera
Jammeh And Al-Jazeera, Please Listen!!! By Gambiano Al-Jazeera was already in The Gambia around August/September of 2015 about to film. But they were asked to stop filming because their permit was revoked. And the subject of their mission, in the direct words of Journalist Catherine Soi? Simple! “To objectively report […]
UDP Leader Takes On Gender Activists
The woman managing the leadership of the United Democratic Party (UDP) has protested against inhumane and brutal torture of peaceful opposition protesters, particularly vulnerable women. Yam Secka, the UDP deputy Secretary General, abhorred the tortures meted out on the party’s executive female members: Fatoumata Jawara, Nokoi Njie and Fatou Camara. […]
Defiant Darboe, Comrades Back In Prison
My Release Will Be Meaningless If… The defiant United Democratic Party (UDP) leader and his comrades have returned to Mile II Prison after appearing before a judge this morning for bail application. Lawyer Ousainou Darboe and comrades return followed after so many sticking points were argued in the court, including […]
Yahya Jammeh Must Cease Violence Against Women Activists
By Siray Touray (women’s activist in U.K.) As a young woman, I am outraged and saddened about the news that three Gambian women are part of the opposition UDP supporters detained and tortured by security forces. These defenceless women are bearing violent wounds. Gambian security forces who get their direct command […]
ECOWAS Report On Gambia Smells The Unknown
A statement issued by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission on The Gambia government’s use of excessive force against armless, peaceful protesters depicts the regional grouping knows what is yet to be known to many Gambians. This is evidenced by the fact that the Commission is extending […]
Pressure Mounting On Gambia Over Political Repression
By Abdoulie John Barely a week after Gambian authorities launched a full-scale police crackdown on peaceful protesters that led to arrest and torture to death of three opposition members, the situation seems to have set off waves of outrage across the globe, with flurry of condemnations pouring on the brutal Jammeh […]
Sanctity Of Human Life: An Islamic Perspective
By: Dr Alhagi Manta Drammeh The Qur’an categorically states that God has honoured the children of Adam. This honouring of the children of Adam is fundamental to the Qur’anic discourses. Nobody has the right to violate this divine right that people have. In this light comes the Qur’anic injunction that […]
Charge Sheet Of Youth Protesters
List Of Arraigned Gambian Peaceful Protesters
Kairo News publishes below the list of peaceful Gambian protesters arraigned at the High Court in Banjul on Wednesday. The list includes Lawyer Ousainou Darboe, his family members and United Democratic Party leadership. Click the image to view the list of charged opposition protesters and their charge.