The Imam of Detroit Islamic Center has called on Gambians to honour and celebrate all those who demonstrate their love and interest for their country that found itself embroiled in political crisis. “Our home country, the Gambia, is facing extra-ordinary situation, which requires extra-ordinary solution,” Imam Momodou Ceesay told Kairo […]
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Jammeh Charge-Sheet And Possible Pardon
“Sir Dawda Jawara lives peacefully in Gambia and so can Jammeh,” says His Excellency President-Elect Barrow. Presidential Pardon/Amnesty The question is whether President-Elect Barrow is prepared to offer Out-going President Yahya Jammeh a total and absolute Presidential Pardon? I think the need for a “Presidential Pardon” is why Jammeh went […]
My President, The Final Hour Is Here
My Brother President Yaya Jammeh, The Final Hour is Here! My brother president, I say hello to you. I am addressing you at this point in time because I know life is hard for you. You are literally seeing your world crumbling in front of you, and there is nothing […]
Don’t Let Fake News Fake You Out!
By Alagie Yorro Jallow Fake news is so real and so pervasive that it already rings disturbingly familiar. It’s the production and dissemination of false information meant to influence the direction of our Gambian life by deluding anyone unsuspecting enough to swallow it. To our thinking, it’s a matter of […]
ECOWAS Says Jammeh Must Step Down When Term Ends
West Africa’s regional bloc ECOWAS must ensure Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh steps down when his mandate ends in January because he lost an election, the bloc’s chairwoman, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, said on Saturday. Her comments came at the start of an ECOWAS summit in the Nigerian capital […]
The Poisonous Albatross called The Gambia Army – Part 1
By Saul Saidykhan Let’s start by getting something straight outright: we do not have a national army in The Gambia. What we have is what Essa Bokar Sey calls “a criminal gang masquerading as an army.” Some prefer the term criminal Syndicate. I’ll use Ethnic Militia because I believe it’s […]
How Is Mugabe A Unifying Figure In Zimbabwe?
It is indeed true that ‘Silence in the midst of adversity does not represent peace, but fear’. Such a ‘fear’ is carried out by members of President Mugabe’s Liberation Movement, Zimbabwe African Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF). Their fear to stand up against the thirty-six year ruler has reached disturbing levels. This former liberation […]
Jammeh On The Losing Edge; Even Jungulars Won’t Die For Him
The Gambia’s defeated President who wants to cling on to power by force is clearly on the losing edge. Besides getting mountains of condemnations from home and abroad, Yahya Jammeh thinks he can still get his way through. He banks hopes on the country’s divided army. What more is the […]
Guinea-Bissau’s PAIGC Needs To Manage Their Organizational Fall-outs
This is a country in the Western wing of the African continent whom saw their independence from Portugal in Nineteen seventy four. Guinea post their multi-party legislative and presidential elections has never seen an elected leader finishing his term. From time immemorial there always rises a tag of war, worse […]
Yahya Jammeh Must Stop Being Petty, Ghana Set A Good Example!
During Post Africa’s Independence from various European Countries there was Leadership -Transition change after long battles which saw Africans dying as they fought for their liberation. When the West eventually decided to let Africans lead themselves they had no option but to step aside. In essence, we received political power […]
Open Letter to the Gambia Armed Forces
By Baba Galleh Jallow Dear General Ousman Badjie (CDS) and Members of the Gambia Armed Forces, Please allow me to address this open letter to you in the name of God and for the love of country that binds us all into one big Gambian family. This letter is not […]
‘Clerics Should Stop Preaching Women’
Muslim clerics in the Gambia have been advised to focus attention on their brutal dictator instead of “preaching women.” “My message is directed to Muslim clerics, especially Imams and Supreme Islam Council leaders,” Imam Momodou Ceesay of Detroit Islamic Center said. “Preach what is relevant. Stop preaching women right now […]