Momodou Ndow Not a day goes by without hearing complaints from those residing in The Gambia about how desperate the situation is there. They lament about flying inflation, lack of employment and opportunity, harassment, intimidation, abuse, chronic corruption, fear, and all this is done through whispering because they think someone is listening. Sometimes they just sum it up as “Gambia easywut”. You hear these complaints from people from all walks of life. From high government officials, lawyers, doctors, artists, business owners, petty traders, fish sellers at the market, and of course, the unemployed. Basically, across the spectrum! I would not…
Author: Gainako
Striving to remain pure and pristine like a snow flake in a world sinking in sinful drips is absolutely a herculean task especially if one is gullible. History has recorded different generations which unconscious drifted away from the path leading to eternal bliss to makeshift cities were nothing is neither right nor wrong. Suffice it to say most of those slips are often precipitated by a single act of innocence and goodwill which eventually finds itself transformed into a new form and meaning. This can be better demonstrated by citing a familiar instance at home;“Meet the Farmers Tour” initiated by…
A BRIEF REALISTIC REMINDER OF HOW ISLAM HONORS AND ELEVATES WOMEN. Lamin Sabally, Minneapolis, Minnesota A great number of western media has been chronically abuzz with degrading stories depicting women as having their rights systemically suppressed in Islam. These negative and very disturbing truncated stories have therefore permanently shaped a strong public opinion in the western world about Islam, which is equally gaining huge followership in the west at an unprecedented speed. From all carefully verified and vetted signals, these are mainly falsified characterizations of women’s rights within the purview of Islamic law (Sharia). Unfortunately, the mere mention of…
On the occasion of the passing away of Ousainou Mbenga’s father, Alhagie Ebrima Momodou Mbenga, members of the GCC wish to extend their heartfelt condolences and deepest sympathy to you and your family for this great loss of your father. GCC is further saddened by the fact that due to your activities in fighting for the cause of justice in the Gambia, you will, by virtue of the political climate at home, be unable to participate in sending your beloved father to his eternal place of rest. GCC is further mindful of the enormous sacrifices that you, your family and…
Since plans for its production were announced years ago, talk has not ceased about the Iranian epic film Muhammad: The Messenger of God. The film was written and directed by Majid Majidi who is considered one of Iran’s most important filmmakers, and whose repertoire includes The Children of Heaven (1997) that was nominated for the foreign-language film Oscar, The Color of Paradise (1999) and Baran (2001). ‘Muhammad’, the first of a planned trilogy, focuses on the prophet’s early life. Throughout the film, we see the prophet dressed in white and depicted from the back or the side with a beam…
Sulayman “Saul” Saidykhan Please indulge me the opportunity to add to the current debate regarding Mr. Trump and his ideas about Muslims because 1. I’m American by choice and 2. am a Muslim. Without going any further, let me state here that what happened in San Bernardino some weeks ago is horrible and sickening especially considering the conscious role of a lactating mother in the crime. How a woman with a six-months old child could do what is being alleged to have been done by the deceased woman in CA is beyond me. But if we are to be honest…
The needless executions, in 2012, of twenty-six people, all of who were inmates at the scene of more than five hundred deaths, since 1994, Gambia’s notorious Mile 2 Central Prison, reinforced the belief that Yahya Jammeh had reached the peak of insanity. The startling executions, in 2012, preceded by five mass murder incidences, dating back to the November 1994 executions of nine military officers, typify the notorious ruthlessness of Yahya Jammeh and his military henchmen. But, notwithstanding those tragedies, Gambians recently woke up to a different kind of reality; a craziness that embodies the quintessence of Yahya Jammeh as…
PDOIS LETTER TO IEC CHAIRMAN CHAIRMAN INDEPENDENT ELECTORAL COMMISSION 11th January 2016 SUBJECT: HAS THE RE-DEMARCATION OF CONSTITUENCIES BEEN GIVEN LEGAL EFFECT AND WOULD GENERAL REGISTRATION TAKE PLACE IN ANY NEW CONTITUTENCY In three days time Supplementary Registration of voters would begin. In your programme guide regarding the movement of your registration teams ,there is no mention of any registration team for any new Constituency. You would recall that you did send a copy of “Legal Notice No.10 of 2015 dated 1st June 2015” which is cited as “Re- Demarcation Of Constituencies, 2015.” This Citation stated that the Constituencies of Kombo North, Kombo Central, Serrekunda East and Serrekunda Central have been…
When the world’s newest Islamic republic honors the Jewish state Paul Hirschson, Israel’s ambassador to Gambia, dissects the significance of a tiny West African nation’s name change A Month after Gambia declared itself an “Islamic Republic,” its longtime ruler this week warmly hosted the ambassador of the world’s only Jewish state. Israel’s Ambassador Paul Hirschson on Tuesday inspected a presidential honor guard in the capital Banjul before he handed his letters of credentials to Vice President Isatou Njie Saidy. The next day, he sat down for an hour-long chat with President Yahya Jammeh, who has been leading this tiny West…
Back in 2013 when he reduced the work week from five to four days, I wrote a piece in which I argued that contrary to fears in some quarters, imposing Sharia law was not an option for Mr. Jammeh. In the light of recent developments in The Gambia, I wish to share that piece with the public, unedited. Around the middle of January, 2013, Gambia’s dictator Yahya Jammeh – who insists on being called His Excellency the President Sheikh Professor Alhajj Doctor Yahya AJJJ Jammeh – dropped yet another of his increasingly eccentric bombshells: he decreed – without any known…