The fight to free Gambia is not a fight Gambians ask for, it is not a fight Gambians want or demanded, it is a fight that has been brought to Gambians and upon us as a nation and people. There would not be any fight without the quest of one man and his unworthy brainless few to control the destiny of a nation and its people. It is one man – Yahya Jammeh who wants to rule our country for the rest of his life. Who came to power through force under…
Author: Gainako
Fellow Gambians, fellow countrymen and women, the Gambia Consultative Council (GCC) is pleading with the Gambian people and political leaders to show their unflinching support for the return of the rule of law in Gambia. The organization expresses it support for the efforts to seek a new path for our beloved country, the Gambia, without Yahya Jammeh. After more than twenty years of brutality and mayhem, the Gambian people deserve to be free once again. This is an opportunity for all Gambians to go out in the streets and demand a change of government. Fellow Gambians, the world is…
More information is coming in regarding the apparent failed military operation in the Gambia to topple the Jammeh administration. Reliable sources from the corridors of the State House in Banjul has it that the commander of the State Guard Captain Musa Savage may have been the man who betrayed the arm attackers and killed them upon their arrival at the State House to launch their operations. The source further alleged that the arm attackers had an agreement with some senior members of the arm forces in the Gambia to back them when they launch their operations. The source went…
Gainako has been gathering information all day regarding the status of the military attempt to topple the Jammeh regime in Gambia. Reliable information is that the Jammeh administration is involved in heavy propaganda to bury what has become a serious security blow to the Jammeh government. The government issued a statement through the National Radio and Television Services (GRTS) urging people “to go about their business”. The President issued his own statement from his undisclosed location outside of the country announcing what he called the “a thwarted coup attempt”. The statement reads: “My fellow Gambians: At 1 o’clock this…
The foiled December 29, 2014 coup effort in The Gambia is yet another blow to an already embattled regime and its head, Yahya Jammeh. As it were, the foiled coup followed in the wake of world-wide condemnation of Jammeh’s strident, antigay legislation, and threats to execute gays- leaving him severely isolated, internationally. Combined US and EU suspension of development assistance, and trade support also sent Jammeh currying favors from Middle Eastern monarchs who likely share his stance on homosexuality to support an economy teetering on collapse. Gambians awoke to sounds of gunshots on the morning of December 30, at…
Gainako has been following rumors all evening that there has been a military mutiny in the small West African State of the Gambia in the early hours of Tuesday December 30th, 2014. We also received several calls from readers and listeners to Gainako Radio inquiring about what is happening in the Gambia. Many reported hearing rumors of gunfire around the surroundings of the State House. The Gambian President Yahya Jammeh is currently outside of the country on a private visit to France and Qatar. Gainako contacted several sources on the ground in the Gambia and outside who also reported hearing…
By Mathew K Jallow On the potholed streets and alleyways of Greater Banjul, it’s a macabre scene repeated many times; young men with limited education driving around in regime issued, gas guzzling vehicles, doing Yahya Jammeh’s dirty work; arresting, incarcerating, torturing, maiming and murdering innocent Gambians and non-Gambians alike. But, just last week, a rare appearance on Freedom Radio by one of such young men, Ousman Bojang, provided Gambians with information no one, hitherto, knew existed, and clearly confirmed the deleterious nature of Yahya Jammeh’s AFPRC military regime. But, Ousman Bojang also gave subliminal clues as to…
By Momodou Ndow The Western Hemisphere School for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) formerly known as the US Army School of the Americas (SOA) is a United States Department of Defense School located at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia, that provides military training to Latin American countries. The length of the United States global arm is not a secret, whether economically or militarily. After World War II, there was a heightened military and economic tension mainly between the United States and Soviet Union. World War II left the Soviet Union and the United States as the two major super powers, but…
Rio de Janeiro is a city looking to the future. Major development work is underway in the city’s historic port area as it prepares to host the Olympics in 2016. But the construction effort to make all that happen has unexpectedly shone a light on a dark side of Rio: its past as the largest entry point for African slaves in the Americas. In 2011, excavation work uncovered the site of Valongo Wharf, where almost a million African slaves disembarked before the slave trade was declared illegal in Brazil in…
66th Anniversary (Human Rights 365) Of The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights (UDHR) 2014 “Why is it that when Europeans and North Americans (and Southeast Asians) are busy finding their ways to the Moon, Africans are busy moving back to the forest or cave?”- Dr. Julius Nyerere 1994. (Failed Democracy & Good Governance In Africa, Onitsha Nigeria, Sunday December 21, 2014)-We take dictatorship to mean a form of government in which absolute power is concentrated in a dictator or a small clique in a government; with maximum suppression of civil liberties and rule of law. Dictatorship is also commonly…