PDOIS’ POSITION ON THE BILLS REQUIRING A MILLION DALASI TO REGISTER A POLITICAL PARTY AND EXTENDING THE DEATH PENALTY TO CRIMES NOT ASSOCIATED WITH KILLING THE EXECUTIVE IS ON A COLLISION COURSE WITH LAW, REASON AND THE PRINCIPLE OF THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE Events of far reaching political significance are unfolding right before our own eyes. Many lessons of fundamental significance to our existence as a people need to be drawn. History teaches us that those who are to be equal to the task of being the architects of their own destiny must neither be driven to a…
Author: Gainako
By Sainey Faye “The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.This involves an absolute equality of rights of property between former masters and slaves and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and free laborer.The freemen are advised to remain at their present homes and work for wages.They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness, either there or elsewhere.” “General Order No. 3” Texas, or rather the state of Texas was part of…
MORE REVELATION ON U.S ALLEGED INVOLVEMENT IN GAMBIA FAILED COUP Barely two weeks ago, Gambians were treated to an interview with the U.S charge d’affaires in The Gambia in which the ambassador want to tout as “excellent”, the relationship between The Gambia and the U. S. A. Was it a mere coincidence that the next day, Washington Post ran a story detailing the American role in alerting the Gambian government of an impending coup d’état? What Yahya did not tell the Gambians is that upon receiving the sketchy information of a coup, he pack up with his family and ran…
The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), ranked among the three premier research institutes in Africa, and based in Senegal’s capital, Dakar, held its 14th General Assembly, from June 8-13. Participants and invited guests came from all corners of the globe- united by an overarching interest in research/scholarship on African affairs. This General Assembly’s theme, decidedly Afrocentric, and for good reasons, was appropriately titled, “Creating African Futures in an Era of Global Transformations: Challenges and Prospects.” Another objective of the General Assembly, perhaps the more important one, was to elect a new Executive…
By Demba Baldeh In what could be a surprising answer to a question people often wondered about, President Obama of the United States probably the world’s most difficult job once again has given being a President a human face. Many thought being a president is something extraordinary with some magical or super human means the rest of the world do not have especially in Africa where being a President is like being a demigod where you live above the law and you are treated like a Holy King. Well President Obama in an article by Online Magazine MORE revealed that being…
JOHANNESBURG, South-Africa, June 18, 2015/ — A ‘Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund’ for Africa was launched on 13th June 2015. The launch event was led by the President of the Republic of Senegal HE Macky Sall, and representatives of the Heads of States of Ethiopia and Rwanda. The Fund will contribute to the World Bank ‘Partnership for Skills in Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology (PASET)’ programme (http://www.worldbank.org/afr), which seeks to award 10,000 African PhD scholarships over ten years, to strengthen research and innovation in applied science, engineering and technology. Photo: http://www.photos.apo-opa.com/index.php?level=picture&id=2196(Dr Álvaro Sobrinho and HE Macky Sall, President…
Addressing the Root Cause of Mass Mediterranean Deaths BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union will move ahead beginning next week on a plan to disrupt the business model of human traffickers in the Mediterranean Sea, diplomats said Friday. Around 100,000 migrants have entered Europe so far this year, with some 2,000 dead or missing during their perilous quest to reach the continent. Dozens of boats are launched from lawless Libya each week, with Italy and Greece bearing the brunt of the surge. Two diplomats from EU nations told The Associated Press the EU would start using ships, planes and…
STATEMENT BY UDP LEADER, LAWYER OUSAINOU DARBOE, ON THE EXPULSION OF THE EU REPRESENTATIVE TO THE GAMBIA For almost two weeks now, The Gambia has been on international spotlight for all the wrong reasons. First was the President’s repulsive statement to slit the throat of homosexuals….a worrying demonstration by a leader who continually threatens violence against defenseless Gambians without recourse to the rule of law. Then came the expulsion of the EU Representative to The Gambia Ms. Agnes Guillaud, who was given 72 hours to leave the country. As if these were not enough, news started coming in just…
By Mathew K Jallow It was a vigorous back to back manifestation of new breath of political life. First, PDOIS held its annual Congress in Bansang and produced an ambitious 17-point plan of action. This was soon followed by the UDP’s nationwide tour, which commenced on a rather rough foot; entangled with the regime over what is clearly the party’s most fundamental right. As, elections, 2016 draw near, the political atmosphere seems shrouded in new found giddiness, which has on occasions burst out into seemingly uncontrollable euphoria. The undeniable success of the UDP’s tour is reverberating across the length…
By Baba Galleh Jallow Traditionally, African dictators have imposed single-party states either by issuing an order banning all other parties, or by passing law in rubber stamp parliaments legitimizing the imposition of single party states. Gambia’s Yahya Jammeh, who has fast assumed the status of Africa’s most callous dictator, has devised a novel and particularly sinister plot designed to turn the country into a single party state in all but name. We may call his sinister method Dollar Power – the imposition of exorbitant fees for all who desire to seek political office in…