NRMG The Executive Committee February 10, 2016 I want to take this opportunity to thank you all for the honor to work together in the name of our dearest motherland, The Gambia; to free her from Jammeh’s dictatorship, terror, and economic deprivation. I also want to thank you for the confidence and trust you had by selecting me as your leader. I want to take this unique opportunity to thank all Gambians for giving me the privilege to work with them in this very difficult epoch in our country’s history, especially all of you who one way or the…
Author: Gainako
The Independent National Assembly member for Kombo Central Hon. Buba I Sanneh is reportedly in legal tussle with the Inspector General of police. According to our source Mr. Sanneh got into a physical confrontation with a resident in his family compound when the resident was playing loud music and disrupting the peace and quietness in the family compound. Mr. Sanneh after warning the resident who has been his dependent for over 20 years went to shut down the music. This resulted into a push and pull and the unnamed resident fell and sustained minor injuries. He reported the matter to…
By Mathew K Jallow Precedence to the Africa Union’s shameful failure to assist in ending Burundi’s gradual descent into bloody civil war, and avert an unfolding bloodbath, was bred in Abuja, Nigeria, in late 2015. As in Abuja, contrarian arguments for military intervention in Burundi, to help end the carnage, thwart its spiral into total anarchy, and bring that country back from the brink of disaster, were advocated by some of the same opponents of ECOWAS’s two-term limits proposal last year. But the relative ease with which Gambia’s mass murdering tyrant, Yahya Jammeh, was able to exert influence, disproportionate…
Authoritarian leaders like the Gambia’s Yahya Jammeh seem to relish the West’s wealth. Why doesn’t the United States use that against them? For those of us lucky enough to live in democracies, it is comforting to imagine foreign dictators as wholly foreign. The world seems less complicated when an autocrat fits the stereotype: say, wearing a leopard-skin hat and rarely stepping out of some jungle palace. Anyone fine with ruling undemocratically, one might like to think, should have no interest in a culture completely opposed to the practice. Or, at the very least, if such a leader did make meaningful…
AFRICAN / BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2016 REMEMBERING DR. CHEIKH ANTA DIOP / A GREAT AFRICAN THINKER By Sainey Faye Born: December 29, 1923 …….Died : February 7, 1986…….On this date he passed away and joined the ancestors.He was one of Africa’s greatest thinkers of the twentieth century.Born in Diourbel, Senegal; Cheikh Anta Diop was a scientist, mathematician, and historian/anthropologist.He was a well known African historian, who authored many books on African and world history, and dispelled the myth of Egypt being non-African.Probably, he more than any other historian on Egypt; defended and provided evidences of Egyptian civilizations Africaness.He authored…
Bishop Elison of the Gambia PRESS RELEASE: OUR VIEW ON THE DECLARATION OF THE GAMBIA AS AN ISLAMIC STATE The Knights of Saints Peter and Paul is a society open to all Catholic men. It has a current membership of fifty three. It was formed in 1989 under the Patronage and spiritual guidance of the Catholic Bishop of Banjul, and affiliated to the International Alliance of Catholic Knights. Members, who come from different backgrounds, commit themselves to propagate the Catholic faith by living exemplary lives, according to the teachings of mother Church. The Order also promotes a spirit…
‘Let’s Go Take Back Our Country’ What happened when 11 exiles armed themselves for a violent night in the Gambia In the dark hours of the morning on December 30, 2014, eight men gathered in a graveyard a mile down the road from the official residence of Yahya Jammeh, the president of the Gambia. The State House overlooks the Atlantic Ocean from the capital city of Banjul, on an island at the mouth of the Gambia River. It was built in the 1820s and served as the governor’s mansion through the end of British colonialism, in 1965. Trees and high…
New York, February 5, 2016-The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the shooting in Guinea today of El-Hadj Mohamed Diallo, a reporter for the news websites Guinée7 and Afrik, and calls on authorities to ensure justice is served. Diallo died on the way to the hospital after being shot during clashes outside a meeting of Guinea’s main opposition party, the Union of Democratic Forces, in the capital, Conakry, according to reports . The party has been divided after its vice-president, Oury Bah, was expelled from its leadership. When Bah was denied entry to the party’s headquarters today, his supporters and…
Former international Sang Ndong has been named as the coach of The Gambia again, his last stint ended in 2003. He has stepped down as coach of local side Hawks to sign a two-year deal with the Scorpions. Ndong’s first competitive games will be home and away 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Mauritania in March. “Our objective now is to rebuild. We’re not saying there’s nothing on the ground – there is,” he said. “But we want to take it from where it is, to another level and to change, not the brand the national team is using,…
Total Certainty Feathered onlookers perched On symbolic trees Quip a prose Of thundering protest They ask If all is well ask If a lie can be true They ask why Some walk a tightrope In total certainty Ask why In the peace They find a knife To stab the good In total certainty – Baba