If you are a strong supporter of the opposition leaders we currently have now, not the parties, this is the article you won’t want to read but have to read in order to implement the necessary changes to our predicaments. Now, before I even get to tell you what I am seeing on the ground, let us just get straight to the point that the 2016 elections have been unanimously decided, and your winner is no other than the President who has managed to not only keep his strong base, but increased it tremendously due to some activities that…
Author: Gainako
By Baba Galleh Jallow Bla bla bla bla bla. My name is John Yohomal and I am a great man. They also call me Never Die and Rule Forever. In fact I can say that I am the greatest man in the world with lots of punk and money and power and all the good things in life. I am the head of state and commander chief of the armed forces of the great Republic of No-Talk. My mind tells me that I am immortal, but I have to wait till the day I fail to die to verify…
By HE John Dramani Mahama, President of Ghana. What is the story that comes to mind when people hear the name “Africa”? The presentation, or representation, of one? That has always been the danger when it comes to how we discuss Africa. There has always been the assumption of a monolith: Africa as one country, not 54; One culture, not an immeasurable number; One climate, hot! hot! hot! Africa as one intractable reality. When you hear the name Africa spoken on television or radio or in an unfamiliar public space; When you read the name Africa in a newspaper or…
By Baba Jobe It’s not strange to see Yahya Jammeh using any opportunity of public appearance to express his hatred and discrimination towards the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community. Whether his stance is a genuine representation of his thoughts and feelings towards LGBT people, or is just another political propaganda added to his anti-colonialists rhetorics,may leave doubt in many minds. It’s obvious most of his audience will believe him exactly as he say it without proper thoughts to see why he is so obsessed with this group. Most will jump to conclusion without hesitation and that has always…
By Foday Samateh This regards your temper tantrums and related matters. Anytime you open your mouth, you are railing and ranting against someone. You’ve been angry at the Jolas and the Mandinkas. You’ve been angry at The Gambian men and youths. You’ve been angry at the civil service and the military. You’ve been angry at the journalists and the opposition. You’ve been angry at the religious figures and business people. You’ve been angry at your own ministers and supporters. You’ve been angry at Senegal, the United States and the European Union. You’re, in short, a breathing Icelandic volcano, whose vindictive animosity…
Do you ever wonder why the United States government never learns their lessons from an ugly history of working and or breeding brutal dictators around the world? How much evidence can any generation provide to show an example of where US government and or foreign policy gets 100% wrong of their decision to work with or against a particular government? Can you even begin to believe the amount of human intelligence and resources the United States invest in their foreign policy and yet time and again they continue to come out flat wrong and embarrassingly so? Well here we…
MINNEAPOLIS — Every other Saturday evening, the coup-plotters excused themselves from their wives and kids to join a conference call. The half- dozen dissidents — all middle-aged men, most with military experience — dialed in from their suburban homes scattered across the South and Midwest. There were operational details to discuss, logistical hurdles to overcome. How would they smuggle rifles and night-vision goggles to Gambia, the tiny West African country from which they were exiled? Was their $221,000 budget enough to topple the brutal strongman who had ruled Gambia for two decades? In the predawn hours of Dec.…
Madison Alder-Elect Samba Baldeh Expresses Warm Gratitude. By Yero Jallow At the thank-you Party commemorating his victory to the Alder in Madison’s common Council District 17, Alder-Elect Samba Baldeh on Saturday May 30th 2015 acknowledged the great work done by his Campaign Manager Fatou Ceesay, Treasurer Sue, long time business partner Jerreh Kujabi, a long list of door-to-door knockers during his campaign and the residents of Madison at large. Baldeh, a Community Activist and Software Engineer with American Family, is a first-time contestant to the Alder position of Madison’s District 17, where he succeeded in defeating the incumbent…
By Momodou Ndow They say “there is nothing new under the sun”, but I dispute that! Thione Seck’s claim that he was contracted by a Gambian promoter for 100 million euros, to do an international tour in five continents with over 100 dates is new under the sun. Gambia as a country does not have 100 million euros to her name, and I don’t believe any Gambian promoter has a quarter of that in their name. Jammeh is said to have a net worth of 1.8 billion dollars, which is more than 100 million euros, but he is a…
Reveal Whereabouts of People Arrested After December Coup Attempt (Dakar, May 27, 2015) – Gambian authorities have detained incommunicado, depriving them of all contact with the outside world, dozens of friends and relatives of people accused of involvement in a coup attempt since January 2015, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said today. Those detained include women, elderly people, and a child, and many are believed to be in ill-health. The government has refused to acknowledge the whereabouts or even the detention of many of them, effectively holding them outside of the protection of the law. This amounts to enforced…