President Macky Sall of Senegal has announced the reduction of the presidential term from the current seven to five. The unilateral decision will take effect immediately, preempting the need for a referendum as originally envisaged. The decision also clears a huddle that parliamentarians were concerned about i.e the cost of conducting such an electoral exercise as well as ending what has been described as “confusion among politicians over the holding of the referendum”. The presidential decree means that the next presidential elections in Senegal will now take place in 2017 when Macky Sall will be seeking his second term,…
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WISHING ALL OUR PARTNERS AND STAKEHOLDERS A PROSPEROUS 2016! MOHERST IS POISED TO BRING NEW INNOVATIONS AND CLOSER COLLABORATIONS WITH ITS PARTNERS AND STAKEHOLDERS SO AS TO MAKE TERTIARY AND HIGHER EDUCATION ACCESSIBLE, AFFORDABLE, EQUITABLE AND OF THE HIGHEST QUALITY – MOHERST IS READY TO MAKE THE Gambia A HUB OF LEARNING FOR AFRICA. JOIN US AND LET US MAKE IT HAPPEN! QUALITY ASSURANCE As 2016 enters with much hope and high expectations, MoHERST is ever ready to ensure that quality education is assured at all levels of tertiary and higher education. The establishment of the National Accreditation and…
A Poem: New Year 2016 Love By Yero Jallow Uproars in echoes like liberating guns These are love songs of altitude on runs With diffusing smoke in thin fluting ones Fired by celebrants or joyful sons Calling for the year’s resolutions in million tons On numerous momentous life drums In celebration of New Year buns. Down there by the dreadful and fearful shadows Sweet loves; be we shepherds on green meadows Giving hope on earth like colorful rainbows With threatening thunderbolts like bows and arrows The shepherd, like a warrior lion, guards his cub heroes His…
By Ebou Gaye How can we trust you? You have made too many unfulfilled promises since you came to power through a putsch two decades ago, Despite your claim to be honest and sincere, For which reason observers describe you as untrustworthy, And suggest treating all your pronouncements with caution to avoid disappointment How can we trust you? You complained upon assuming office that your predecessor overstayed in power, Contending that even 10 years in power is too long a time, Vowing that no one would be allowed to stay in power in our country for more than 10 years…
Dr Samuel B Artley. DMD, FAGD Powerful states and the leaders of such states will always act in the primordial interest of their nation, this is a natural phenomenon, and the preservation of group self-interest comes first. In the process of preserving one group’s interest, all powerful and capable states regardless of their regional locations or multilateral relationships, the basic urge and reflex to project power in their bid to further secure their group interest, will always override all instinctive selfish interest of non-interventional members and attitudes within these powerful states. sovereignty is an internationally agreed upon speed bumps…
How easily we can tell others to do something that is not expected of us!! The typical Gambian in us will say something when the heart is saying something else. We easily mislead others to their graves, and yet won’t take responsibility for such actions. The loudest mouth is the most cowardice of all. Listen to yourselves Gambians and you will easily recognize that we are breeding dictators without even knowing it. The greatest of all our blunders as Gambians is praising people, and defending them like they have no faults on their own. Instead of speaking the truth to…
Calls on the International Community to Support Initiatives to bring President Jammeh and his Thugs to Justice. As we enter 2016 the international community is again reminded that President Yahya Jammeh`s tyranny against the people of the Gambia is on a monumental scale,state repression knows no bounds, as evidence by the continuous detention without trials,torture,summary execution and enforced disappearances. President Jammeh and his government no longer cares about the welfare of the Gambian people.The dictatorship is now ruling by brute force,fear continues to reign in the country, civil society organisations have all been cowed down as a result of repression…
Sulayman Saul Saidykhan I was never really into the night club thing. But in my early years in college here in the Washington DC metro area where I still live, I would occasionally go along with friends to an African club called Kilimanjaro in the 18th Street/Adams Morgan neighborhood of the city. Now, this is over twenty years ago, and my memory isn’t how it used to be, but if it serves me right, the owner and operator of the club was a Kenyan brother name Victor … something. He was to be later railroaded (set-up) by his competitors…
After 21 years of activism, advocacy and sensitization from the diaspora. DUGA is calling on Gambians, all over the world to put all hands on deck, as we prepare for our final HOMECOMING and CIVIL MOBILIZATION in Gambia. We call to action, all civil society organizations and concerned citizens to coordinate and cooperate as we prepare for our final push to take our country back from the APRC dictatorship. To avoid spontaneous and disorganized mobilization, we are reaching out to all interested parties in the diaspora, to join us in the preparations and mobilization of resources as we organize…
Special Tribute by Sigga Jagne I Start by Thanking ALL of You for Taking Your Time to Honor These Honorable Men. Brave Men Are Immortal. Death is inevitable. But the only difference is that the brave have the option to choose their own death. And they shall remain immortal as their names shall be uttered throughout history. I have heard so many things said about my brother Captain Njaga Jagne over the past year, both good and bad, many made up. Many have claimed to know him and many have tried to represent the totality of who he is based…