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…
Author: Gainako
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…
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…
‘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…