As the famous controversial campaign manager of the First H W Bush, Lee Atwater, once quipped out of frustration: “we are throwing the gauntlet in South Carolina”, basically making it clear that the campaign will put in all their effort in South Carolina to save the campaign for the presidency. It was evident at that point, Lee Atwater, who has developed a reputation as a political mercenary, decided that every tactical opportunity has to be explored to win the presidency. Well, the rest was history; H W Bush was elected as the 41st president of the USA. There is…
Author: Gainako
‘MAKING A SIMPLE CASE TO END HUMAN RIGHTS AB– USES IN GAMBIA’ Gambian rights activists and their International partners have been demanding targeted sanctions be levied against the Jammeh regime, his family and aides. One of the most effective sanctions that could immediately force Yahya Jammeh to loosen his iron fist grip on power and institute political reform is A TRAVEL BAN. First of all, Yahya Jammeh and his family’s everything depends on traveling abroad to ask for money and spend looted tax payers resources, purchase expensive real estates and open bank accounts to hide funds from the Gambian…
Gambia’s dictator Yahya Jammeh In what has become an escalated diplomatic stand up between the United States and the Government of Yahya Jammeh, the United States has announced its first move to impose targeted sanctions on the Gambia government for blatant Human Rights Violations. In a presidential proclamation on Tuesday December 23rd the United States declared that it will drop Gambia and South Sudan from a duty-free trade program effective January. 1, 2015. The statement went further to state that the governments of Yahya Jammeh and South Sudan have failed to meet the conditions stipulated in the Growth and…
The decision on Tuesday, December 23rd by the White House to strip The Gambia of its designation as a beneficiary of preferential status under the U.S.’ African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is a clear indication that the international community has had enough of Yahya Jammeh’s tyrannical rule. It’s about time that effective and concerted measures are devised to help end dictatorship in The Gambia. Yahya Jammeh’s ongoing onslaught against individuals presumed to be gay in The Gambia should be viewed within the context of a dying regime that is facing unprecedented and daunting challenges. His international support base…
UPDATE TO DONORS on APRIL 10/11 FUNDS RAISED SUMMER 2014 December 1, 2014 Dear DONOR and PARTNER: We, the Survivors of the April 10/11, 2014 Gambian Student Shootings thank you for your immense show of support and your monetary donation to the fund raising efforts held in April and May 2014 to address our dire medical and cost of living needs. Through your support, a total of five thousand and eight hundred dollars ($5,800.00) was raised between April 2014 to August 2014. Your money has helped to immensely change our lives for the better. Because of your donation and…
By Musa Camara Today, I sent this email to the Ambassador of the Republic of Angola in Washington D.C. the United States of America. Subject: Human Rights Violations in Angola Dear Ambassador Agostinho Tavares da Silva Neto, I am a Gambian citizen living in the United States. It breaks my heart that in your country of Angola, on December 19th, 2014, your security forces were unleashed to perpetrate brutality on defenseless Africans from The Gambia and other West African countries. On behalf of all Africans, I hereby register our disappointment that an African country that we all supported to…
“Freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody”- Malcolm X By: Ousainou Mbenga The sticking point question for our struggle should be: To what end? Are we struggling and fighting for freedom for a selected few and let the rest of other political prisoners rot at Mile 2 prisons and the other unknown dungeons where the Jammeh regime continue to torture the sons (rarely daughters) of our beloved country, even in the face of trumped up charges of treason and other seditious charges? I think not. Our struggle for freedom should end when we attain a civilized society in which…
Beji Caid Essebsi Tunesia’s newly elected President (Reuters) – Veteran Tunisian politician Beji Caid Essebsi won the country’s first free presidential election in the final step of a transition to democracy after an uprising that ousted autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011. Essebsi, a former Ben Ali official, beat rival Moncef Marzouki with 55.68 percent of the vote against 44.32 percent in Sunday’s run-off ballot between the two men, according to results released on Monday by electoral authorities. Both candidates called for calm after rioting briefly broke out in several southern towns in…
(Pic Courtesy NTIXANNEN) By Yero Jallow Sankanu has raised the alarm on a very unfortunate tone by the Angolan administration (Courtesy of NTIXANNEN, 12/20/2014). News tips I personally received from an anonymous family friend in Angola talks about a much higher number with even pregnant women as part of those arrested during Friday’s raid. The raid succeeded in disrupting Friday worshippers and businesses. Psychological impact is far greater than the visible physical impact, with knowledge that some of these African prison systems were built in poor, a condition which greatly affects prisoners’ health…
When the Gambia’s president, Yahya Jammeh said he will ‘execute child rapist’ and ‘send to prison for life those that dump babies,’ I thought for a minute that he forgot that this tiny West African nation already has some of the best child protection laws worth emulating across the world. It did not take me long to come to the realization that this African leader, who has ruled his country with an iron fist is not policy oriented. There are already existing laws with serious punishments for child rapist and neglect of children. Coming from the Gambia myself and…