Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has announced his scheduled departure from Banjul on Monday Septemer 22nd, 2014 at 5:30pm GMT for New York to attend the 69th UN General Assembly. He is scheduled to arrive at JFK airport at 1:30pm Eastern. The President’s last two visits to the United States were met with fierce protest by Gambian activists who held him hostage in his New York hotel last year while attending the 68th UN general Assembly. The second episode followed when the Gambian leader attended the US Africa Summit organized by President Obama in Washington DC. He was again…
Author: Gainako
The “struggle” has been recently rechristened the “resistance”. Either befits, it all just depends on who is talking; the old school or the young-who would rather bring their message to the street for everyday Gambians to digest. Did I just say “everyday Gambians”? Oh yeah very crystal but please don’t ask me who are they. You see sometimes in the heat of a moment one is confronted by thoughts I often prefer to push and bury in the back of my mind. But the problem is they keep on resurfacing every now and again such that I am now left…
Kaba Bajo former APRC cabinet minister and diplomat has narrowly won the GFF Presidential elections which was held on Saturday September 20th at the Paradise Hotel in the Gambia. The election which was marked by controversy for disqualifying former GFF officials went ahead with Mr. Bajo winning 28 votes to Buba Bojang’s 23 votes. Omar Danso the third candidate withdrew last minute and threw his backings behind Mr. Bojang. Despite this last minute surprise the APRC backed candidate was able to pull the votes to win the Presidency. On Friday the debate that was scheduled to be…
For 20 years he has played the dirty card on Gambian citizens. From the day he smelled power he knew he doesn’t have the brain; the background, support cast and the human soul to succeed on his own…. He managed to survive secondary school in Bwiam, then high school and went straight to an institution that accepts bright citizens but also accommodates those who don’t have the brain but the physical ability to get through some tough exercises… So while other brilliant and skillful citizens excelled through the ranks based…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 18, 2014 National Fundraiser On Thursday September 11, 2014, an initiative called The Gambia Democracy Challenge was launched. Its purpose is to serve as the primary vehicle for mobilizing resources from all Gambians who recognize the fierce urgency we face as a nation. As is the case throughout history, nations that aspire to free themselves from the clutches of tyranny must draw from the goodwill and participation of their citizens to muster the required resources to see their struggle through. This is why a solemn appeal is being made to every one of…
An autopsy by Sarjo Bayang Money and material loss quickly comes to mind whenever people talk about 20 years misrule in Gambia. By good account of time and human capital cost since the advent of military dictatorship, overall loss to Gambia as a nation is scary to imagine. Freezing Human Capital Stock In all fairness with regards to capacity building of Gambians, more people have gained employable skills and other specialised functional capabilities in last 20 years compared to what obtained before military rule. There are good reasons for that. It was in last 20 years that…
Recent bad economic news from the IMF prompted the revisit of an article on the Gambian economy written in 2010, but updated for the readers. Since the article was first published four years ago, the regime has closed several questionable banks, but the basic problems of severe economic mismanagement continue to slowly unravel the Gambian economy. By Mathew K. Jallow The performance of the Gambian economy has been lackluster at best in spite of the glowing and often misleading reports by The World Bank and IMF. The World Bank and IMF have often prepared glowing reports on the performance…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama declared Tuesday that the Ebola epidemic in West Africa could threaten security around the world, and he ordered 3,000 U.S. military personnel to the region in emergency aid muscle for a crisis spiraling out of control. The question was whether the aid would be enough and was coming in time. An ominous World Health Organization forecast said that with so many people now spreading the virus, the number of Ebola cases could start doubling every three weeks. “If the outbreak is not stopped now, we could be looking at hundreds of thousands of…
On the night of April 14, 2014, hundreds of schoolgirls at the Chibok boarding school in northeastern Nigeria awoke to the sound of gunfire. They saw men in camouflage approaching and thought soldiers were coming to save them from a militant attack, according to survivors’ accounts. Instead, more than 270 of the schoolgirls found themselves in the clutches of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram. Their abduction sparked global outrage and a huge campaign calling for their rescue, partly propelled by the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls. Sunday marks five months since the girls were kidnapped. Here’s what has happened since. Not…
Why H.E Sheikh Prof. Alhagie Dr. Yahya AJJ Jammeh Nasirul Deen Babili Mansa President of The Gambia, needs to reach out to the calls for an open dialogue? For 50 years since Independence, we the people of The Gambia have seen tremendous gains in achievement and developments, but also suffered heinous crimes and human right violations that have set us back as a nation. The achievements made possible were built on the institutions in place that the P.P.P had created which paved the way for education, agriculture, transportation, investments, tourism, separation of checks and balances, foreign relations, the…