Author: Gainako

Former President of Ivory Coast Laurent Gbagbo who lost elections in 2010 but refused to step down which engineered a political unrest in his country, is scheduled to go on trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Hague on Thursday January 28th, 2016.  The unrest claims the lives of over 3,000 citizens which Gbagbo the then sitting President allegedly refused to handover power and ordered his loyal forces to resist his ouster after his rival Alassan Wattara was declared a winner in a second round of voting. Mr. Gbabo and at least one of his security chiefs faces four…

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The Gambian President in another abrupt cabinet reshuffle has eliminated three ministerial departments and positions and fired four cabinet ministers without prior warning. As usual the President has taken over the portfolio of the department of Forestry under the purview of the office of the President. In a statement read on the GRTS evening news Wednesday, the erratic dictator Yahya Jammeh has relieved four ministers of their cabinet appointments without any replacement. Mr Lamin Nyabally former SG and Minister of Fisheries, Dr Edward Saja Sanneh Minister of Energy, Mrs Yambaba Njie Keita Minister of Presidential Affairs and Mr Burama Sagnia the newly…

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I’d written this back in 2014 and with a little tweak to reflect our current situation in the election year, I thought I’d reproduce. I was sitting at home minding my business and thought I would grab my routine dose of Gambian News, so I went on reading the local Newspapers. I started with the Daily Observer and I saw a story about our ‘magnanimous’ president ‘negotiating’ the release from immigration detention and repatriation of Gambian Deportees from Angola. $10,000 USD forked out. As important as that story is, it was not as interesting to me as the next.…

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By Ebrima Manneh Like all other tyrannies, the tyranny of Yaya Jammeh has reached an unacceptable stage that caused an international outcry. This tyranny and the extent of the violations can longer be underestimated due to the reoccurring severity of the violations. When political and social liberties are violated without resistance, tyranny and rights violations becomes a norm. The non-resistance stance taken by Gambians emboldened Yaya Jammeh in his never ending denial of citizens’ rights. Fear coupled with the non-intervention sovereignty policy, gives him an unwarranted immunity, extending the trend of rights violations. The detriment of Yaya Jammeh’s tyranny…

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Big Dreams Incorporated, a charitable organisation founded in Georgia, USA in 2011, Tuesday donated school materials to more than 250 students at Sika Lower Basic School in Sika village, Upper Niumi District. The donation is part of the association’s aim of making a difference in the life of children all over the world. The donated materials, worth more than D280,000, included school bags, pens, pencils, shoes, toothpastes and brushes, water bottles among others. Mamina Ebrima Sonko, co-founder of Big Dreams, said the objective of the foundation is to help students in the rural areas of The Gambia. Mr Sonko,…

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REMEMBERING AMILCAR CABRAL(ABEL DJASSI ) – 1924-1973, “KAABU NYANGCHO” – A REVOLUTIONARY AFRICAN HERO AMILCAR CABRAL – 1924-1973, A REVOLUTIONARY AFRICAN HERO Remembering Amilcar Cabral (Abel DjassI) “KAABU NYANGCHO” -1924-1973 JANUARY 20TH, 1973 …On this date Amilcar Cabral, one of Africa’s greatest revolutionaries was killed by Portuguese Colonialist agents in Conakry, Guinea.A true Pan-Africanist and an outstanding theoritician of the anti-colonial, anti-imperialist struggle; Cabral’s loss was mourned by many freedom loving people around the world.Born in September 12, 1924 – he led a war of liberation in Guinea Bissau,as leader of the PAIGC – one of several armed liberation…

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By Sanna Camara Gambia’s students union in Cairo, Egypt, has intensified efforts to help rescue and repatriate Gambian girls trafficked in the North African destination country. However, many of the girls do not wish to return back to Gambia, union leader tells Gambia Beat. The country has a population of over twenty Gambian girls currently working under trafficking conditions. Since the country has no Gambian embassy, trafficking matters of Gambian girls are usually handled by Senegalese embassy and Gambia’s students’ group there. “Two days back, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) called me to contact our (Gambian) Embassy in…

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Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza insisting on staying in power while thousands of his people are murdered by his securities! Press Statement Mark C. Toner Deputy Department Spokesperson Washington, DC January 19, 2016 The United States is deeply alarmed by reports, including those from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, of serious human rights violations and abuses in Burundi, including eyewitness reports of mass graves, a sharp increase in alleged enforced disappearances and torture, and reports of sexual violence by security forces. These and other reports further underscore the urgent need…

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‘And they’re wondering why more Republicans don’t condemn Trump’s racism’. CHARLESTON, S.C. — At the same time that the three Democratic presidential candidates celebrated the Confederate battle flag’s removal from South Carolina’s state Capitol grounds, Donald Trump gave a speech Monday in which he, bizarrely, dedicated the event’s record-breaking attendance to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. That Trump, who has called Mexican immigrants “rapists” and advocated for a “complete shutdown” of all Muslims entering the United States, is leading the Republican field in South Carolina isn’t surprising to those civil rights leaders who have fought, since the 1990s, to take down symbols of white…

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