The controversy over the recent unfortunate event in Senegal concerning the Gambian entrepreneur Mr. Amadou Samba and those identified as Anti-President Jammeh’s activists, once again puts the Senegalese government on the spotlight of being suspected of encouraging these elements beyond what is reasonable or tolerable. However, I at first thought […]
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PDOIS Queries Gambia’s Financial Indiscipline
PDOIS STATEMENT ON THE SUPPLEMENTAR1Y BUDGET OF OVER ONE BILLION DALASIS 20TH November 2014 – Halifax Salah on Behalf of the Central Committee SPENDING 86 MILLION DALASIS ON NATIONAL CELEBRATIONS IN THE FACE OF A DOMESTIC DEBT OF 13.5 BILLION IS FINANCIAL INDISCIPLINE The battle cry of the movement for […]
The Deliverable Constituency
By Karamba Touray The largest constituency in The Gambia has always been the one opposed to the regime of Yahya Jammeh. This is not an opinion but a statement of fact as shown in the last measure of his standing with The Gambian people in the previous general election when […]
Dr. Janneh Remains Unshaken By Arrest Warrant
By Abdoulie John The Coordinator of the Coalition for Change – The Gambia remains unshaken by the international warrant of arrest issued by Gambia government. “The arrest warrant is purely a diversionary measure being used by the Gambian dictatorship to shift our attention from the insurmountable crises it is facing,” Dr. Amadou […]
Hamat Scolds Gambia Government
The leader of the opposition National Reconciliation Party (NRP) has scolded the Gambia government for its refusal to allow United Nations special investigators full access to the country’s prisons. The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns, and the Special Rapporteur on torture, Juan Méndez, were […]
Obama TKOs the Republican Rednecks
“My fellow Americans, tonight, I’d like to talk with you about immigration. For more than 200 years, our tradition of welcoming immigrants from around the world has given us a tremendous advantage over other nations. It’s kept us youthful, dynamic, and entrepreneurial. It has shaped our character as a people […]
Right Groups Blast Gambia’s Enacted Homophobic Law
21 November 2014 Gambia: “Aggravated Homosexuality’’ Offence Carries Life Sentence Gambia’s recent passage of a homophobic law puts the already persecuted lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) community at even greater risk of abuse, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. The new crime of “aggravated homosexuality,” which […]
Redefining Africa
What people need to know about the African condition By Baba G. Jallow When Creighton University’s African Students Association (AFSA) approached me to give a guest lecture at their annual banquet on the topic “Redefining Africa”, I knew exactly where they were coming from. However, I still asked them what […]
Gambia Issues Int’l Arrest Warrant Against Dr. Janneh
The Banjul Magistrates Court has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of former Communications Minister after prosecutors accused him of treason. Magistrate S Conteh issued the bench warrant yesterday afternoon following the prosecution’s application for Dr Amadou Scattred Janneh who now lives in the United States to be extradited […]
Ousman Badjie Is Also Hooked
Ousman Badjie has become the latest Jammeh enabler to be a victim of the very system he has helped entrenched. Badjie, whose hands remain dirty with blood of the April 2000 victims, was fired as the Minister of Transport, Works and Construction on Thursday. He had his debut in court […]
Echo’s Sankareh Sympathises Amadou!
“Amadou Samba Saga a Gambian predicament” By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-in-Chief, Gambia Echo Hysteria and Bad Mouthing of Amadou Samba When news of Gambian lawyer-turned businessman, Amadou A. Samba’s scuffle inside an elevator with members of a private security firm at Dakar’s luxurious Radisson Blue hotel broke Saturday, it […]
Amnesty International Press Release
18 November 2014 Gambia must stop wave of homophobic arrests and torture The arrest, detention and torture of eight people since the beginning of the month as part of a crackdown on “homosexuality” by the Gambian authorities reveals the shocking scale of state-sponsored homophobia, Amnesty International said. “These arrests […]