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…
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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…
Statement from the US State Department on political agreement in Guinea Bissau We commend the agreement reached between Guinea’s ruling and opposition political parties, which clears the way for Guinea to hold the first round of presidential elections on October 11. The Government of Guinea and the main opposition political parties demonstrated goodwill, flexibility, and a shared commitment to holding credible, inclusive, and peaceful elections. The U.S. government remains committed to supporting the electoral process and urges the parties to continue dialogue throughout the election period and commit themselves and their supporters to non-violence. We encourage all parties to build…
By Allison Griner for Columbia Journalism Review AUGUST 17, 2015 Mexican journalist Ricardo Chávez Aldana was leaving his home, his job, and his country behind as he hurried across the border into El Paso, Texas in December 2009. Chávez had been covering drug cartels and corruption for Radio Cañón in Ciudad Juárez, and he believed that his reporting had made him and his family targets for cartel retaliation. His two teenage nephews had just been murdered. His family was receiving death threats, and he feared further violence. So he and his wife and children slipped across the Bridge of the…
‘The African Angle’ By Sanna Camara Independent media is the Gambian population’s last bastion of defense against tyranny and suppression. This form of media first developed after in 1888, after the European division of the kingdoms of the coastal West African region. It was designed to give a voice to a group of people, later known as Gambians. In short, the country’s freedom from colonialism is intricately linked to the history of its media, particularly the independent media. Perhaps it is this history that has continued to haunt the country’s fourth estate even today. Edward Francis Small, the father…
By Mathew K Jallow A Diasporium newspaper article, which extensively quotes former dissident movement member, Samsudeen Sarr’s rambling denial of National Security Adviser, Susan Rice’s statement on the terrible human rights violations in the Gambia, blew my mind with its irrational analogies, disputations and fabrications. It is hopeless, even needless, to argue with someone whose mind is bent towards denying reality, in order to embrace the fiction, on the human rights conditions in Gambia, peddled by irrational supporters of the military regime. Yahya Jammeh has for twenty years lied about the human rights situation in Gambia, which the rest…
Gainako has confirmed that former Finance Minister Mr. Mamburay Njie has indeed left Gambia for neighboring Senegal. Mr. Njie was one time Jammeh’s closest confidant and has served his government in several capacities. The former minister was prosecuted for abuse of office and negligence after falling apart with the Jammeh regime. After several months of repeated arrest, detention and alleged torture without charges, he was finally brought to the high court in Banjul and charge with two counts of economic crime and negligence of office by “failing to advise the Government in the mining activities of Carnergie Minerals Gambia Limited.”…
African politics meets journalism meets high art at an exhibition at Rivington Place in Shoreditch: “The Fifth Pan-African Congress”. The main display, of black-and-white photos by John Deakin (curated by Mark Sealy of Autograph), fills the ground-floor space at the David-Adjaye-designed centre for visual art in the City. It relies as much on writing as it does on images: right from the entrance, plain black text set against white walls gives the background to the Congress and lists names, origins and designations of delegates. Some of them went on to change history. The pan-African congresses had begun in 1919: the first one was on the sidelines of the Paris Peace Conference,…