Killa Ace has taken The Gambian music and political scene by storm with his release of “Ku Boka C Geta G”. This Gainako exclusive story looks into why the song is causing so much of a stir and why Jammeh is afraid of “Ku Boka C Geta G”. This is a story of a young man who survived death threats as a result of releasing a song criticizing the Jammeh regime. Ku Boka C Geta G is an ultra conscious song produced by Walk a Mile records featuring a trap star beat. The song holds no punches and dives right into…
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By Dbanjulist Gainako’s Banjul based reporter has discovered that the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has commenced training its staff on the new electoral reforms amid opposition challenges. The IEC chair without adequate public announcement or notice to the opposition began its training on the new electoral reform that is still likely to be challenged by the opposition. Gainako reporter the Dbanjulist obtained a copy of the chairman’s presentation at the training. The IEC organized two day training is for their staffs all over the Gambia. The training started 26 August and will end on the 27 August 2015 at the…
“The FBI both misappropriated the trusted name of The Associated Press and created a situation where our credibility could have been undermined on a large scale.” The Associated Press sued the U.S. Department of Justice Thursday over the FBI’s failure to provide public records related to the creation of a fake news story used to plant surveillance software on a suspect’s computer. AP joined with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press to file the lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. At issue is a 2014 Freedom of Information request seeking documents related to the…
By Bamba Sering Mass (UK) The term enabler is as according to the Oxford Dictionary: A noun and it means: A person or thing that makes something possible: PART ONE Now how can we as people make things possible? People throughout the ages enable things happening by not necessarily being visibly playing active roles. So in regards to the above topic Jammeh enablers and Struggle enablers who is who. Let’s first aim to give a brief definition of who Jammeh enablers are but in Part one I would rather much center on Struggle enablers: Jammeh enablers are people who…
President Jammeh has been making pronouncements that he cannot be removed from power through elections, and if he wants he will remain in the presidency for the next billion years, and this is usually in reaction to perceived adversaries in the Diaspora and at home. Maybe, not necessarily link with Jammeh’s pronouncements, a good number of activists in the Diaspora have given up in the election process, which they argued would only legitimize the dictator. According to most of their arguments, Jammeh will steal the elections, and even if he were to lose he will never concede. Listening to…
By Mathew K Jallow On the third anniversary of the heinous Mile Two Prison executions, Gambians solemnly remember one of the most the tragic days in the Gambia’s history. The oldest inmate, Lamin Darboe, had his death sentence commuted to a life in prison years earlier by former President Dawda K Jawara. The youngest, Buba Yarboe of Busumbala village, suffered severe mental illness and was totally incapable of making rational decisions, much less have the capacity to understand his surroundings. And beautiful Tabara Samba, the only female in the group, with little children at home, tried and sentenced for murder…
Travel Bans on Jammeh photo credit Samuel Correa By Bubacarr Sowe for American Street News reporting from London, UK Gambian pro-democracy activists in UK on Saturday gathered in front of the British Prime Minister’s office, renewing their call on both his government and the European Union to impose a travel ban on President Yahya Jammeh and top officials of his government. Chanting “UK must act! Cameron must act,” the protesters said Gambia’s human rights violations are akin to Gaddafi’s Libya or Ivory Coast in the last days of Gbagbo and the UK has a moral duty to help…
Gambia lacks everything but brilliant intelligent citizens who are not only bright but resourceful in every capacity. The tiny West African nation may lack mineral resources such as oil, gold, Diamonds or Iron Ore, but the nation is blessed with a Human Resource that is a treasure for any young nation to have. Every advanced or developing nation which realizes the importance of its Human Resources and intellectual capacity taps into those resources to the nation’s advantage. When these resources are fully utilized and taken advantage of and used in the most productive manner that nation becomes an envy…
August 2015 Poems Truce There! The White flag again survived Because the long waited truce arrived Our warriors’ swords long contrived And our warmth hearts and minds revived. From the scary night fiery battle To the sweet and white laughing rattle With hugs in queues like grazing cattle In the rich meadows for a welcomed brattle. By Yero A Poem: When it ends The soul as it must do and when it ends Die as it must answer to nature’s call at ease Our bags full of deeds with pride of achievements Our soaked boots…
Hon Omar Amadou Jallow Alias OJ leader of the Peoples Progress Party (PPP) and former minister of Agriculture in the first Republic has challenged sons and daughters of the first Republic to “defend the legacy of their parents”. Mr. Jallow was speaking from Banjul during an interview with Gainako Radio when he called upon decent citizens of the Gambia to live up to the expectations of their parents and grandparents by defending the legacy of Democracy, Human rights and dignity for all in the tiny West African State of the Gambia. Mr. Jallow said although he has reached the…