Kairo News has confirmed the beginning of the Gambia’s outgoing President Yahya Jammeh’s witch-hunt aimed at military officers at Fajara Barracks. The unexplained arrest and detention of Captains Bubacarr Bah and Demba Baldeh, according to their colleagues, is a calculated attempt by the desperate Jammeh regime to “kill the morale […]
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Yahya Jammeh – A Virtual Hostage
The Gambia’s outgoing President who is refusing to relinguish power due to fears of witch-hunt targeting him and his henchmen has found himself trapped in State House in Banjul. Yahya Jammeh’s constitutional mandate expires on January 18th but he is not ready to hand over power, despite running out of […]
ECOWAS Must Not Flinch on Gambia Intervention
By Baba Galleh Jallow Following their failure to convince Yahya Jammeh to step down, one hopes that ECOWAS will not flinch from its determination to force Yahya Jammeh out of power. Certainly, no one likes violent conflict, not least the Gambian people themselves. But the reality is that Yahya Jammeh […]
Gloom – And Hope – Over The Gambia
Friday 13th January 2017 – Banjul, The Gambia. Out-Going President Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia sends packing Presidents Sirleaf Johnson of Liberia, the Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and President Buhari of Nigeria. The two were accompanied by Ghana’s just voted-out President – as an […]
Stop Peddling Subliminal Messages
Now that we are provided with a seemly accurate and unrefutable biography of one Yankuba Badjie, though it is apparent that the real motive again is the Subliminal messages underlying the Hatchet piece. I don’t have the time of “beating around the bush” about the Insidious drum beat of the […]
Diplomatic Madness; APRC Top Brass Openly Quarrel
The political top brass of President Yahya Jammeh’s Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) have been spotted quarreling at the Banjul International Airport where they assembled to welcome the ECOWAS crisis mediation team led by President Muhammadu Buhari of Nogeria. An onlooker pieces together what is perhaps considered one […]
THE KING OF BECHUANALAND II: Drive Carefully!
THE KING OF BECHUANALAND II: Drive Carefully! Dr Karamo NM Sonko A lizard in a desert In the scorching heat of the desert, when sunlight and air create the impression of falling rain, deceiving the eyes with mirages unreachable, a man drove his car, in boredom. He suddenly saw the […]
Jammeh Is Africa’s Worst Dictator
By Seedy Fofanah The President of the Gambia Yahya Jammeh is the Africa’s Worst Dictator in the 21st Century. When he took over the mantle of affairs of the Republic of the Gambia on July 22nd 1994, he started with a Slogan; “Accountability, Transparency and Probity” that there was […]
‘I’m Not A Threat To Islam’
I once made a video and posted it on social media explaining how President Yahya Jammeh blackmailed some prominent Gambians, including religious leaders. In the said video, I explained how the outgoing President recruited beautiful women to lure these unsuspecting people into indecent act [sex]. They would be filmed by […]
We Don’t Need Intellectual Prostitutes
Andy has made very good points. However, my concern is that we have seen some greedy people in diaspora who are actively making name for themselves since the victory. We have seen people coming from woodwork making frequent calls to radio stations and writing so-called expert ideas on what the […]
Matric Results A ‘Spit’ for the African Child
There is no true democracy and true nation building when our national matric results remind us of our past. Nothing rainbow about this disturbing reality. We are told the class of twenty-sixteen is the largest since the nineteen-nightly-four breakthrough. We applaud the efforts made to ensure that our children are in […]
Mismanaging The Transition-transfer: An Unlawful Abuse Of Incumbency
Almost without exception, and outside of an armed military takeover, dictatorship usually succumbs to mass action, violent or otherwise, on the streets of a country, and the resultant forceful change in government may be termed a revolution. Recall the 1979 collapse of the Pahlavi dynasty in Iran, the 1989 uprising […]