First US President George Washington Democracy has been proven to be the most effective governing system that puts power in the hands of the people. When the people have the opportunity to determine who controls running public institutions, make policies and laws to guide the daily operations of society, that society becomes more open and often to the best interest of the majority of the people. As humans, there is always the tendency to abuse power, a system and or a process that is intended to guard the common interest of a people. When such a system of checks…
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Amnesty International News Flash Gambia has again demonstrated its blatant disregard for human rights by stopping a UN team from investigating allegations of torture and extrajudicial killings in the country, Amnesty International said today. The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns, and the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment, Juan Méndez, were denied access to detention centres where prisoners are believed to be at high risk of torture. “The UN’s human rights monitors have confirmed what we have long been saying, describing…
Did anybody watch Bala Garba Jahumpha new Secretary General of the APRC party and a cabinet member of the Jammeh government during the 20th Anniversary celebration of July 22nd one man revolution? Mr Jahumpa was on a mission to stick it to the face of the Gambian people especially Diaspora Activists. During a discussion with Malick Jones of GRTS Mr. Jahumpa the so called action man was emphatically adding Jammeh’s numerous titles like Babili Mansa and looking straight in the cameras celebrating a brainless President for 20 years of oppression. It was evident from Action Man’s words that he…
DAKAR, Nov 6 (Reuters) – The number of Ebola cases is surging in Sierra Leone as the country suffers from a lack of treatment centers, while lack of food and basic goods is forcing some people to leave quarantine areas, the United Nations said. The U.N. Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) said in its weekly report that a total of 1,062 people had died in Sierra Leone from the virus, with the outbreak particularly virulent in the western areas around the coastal capital Freetown. Sierra Leone is emerging as the focal point for concern in the worst Ebola…
Paper presented at the 16th Annual International Leadership Association Conference October 30 – November 2, 2014 / San Diego California Baba G. Jallow, Creighton University, [email protected] Some scholars de-contextualize Africa’s leadership and developmental crises by attributing them to the mistaken and untested assumption that Western theories and styles of leadership are not appropriate for African and other non-Western cultures. Geert Hofstede (1993) has argued that Western theories and styles of leadership are not appropriate for non-Western cultures. Hofstede claims that this is so because leadership studies theorists grew up in particular environments that inevitably limit the applicability and…
‘Burkina Faso crisis: African leaders in army handover talks’ The presidents of Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal are visiting Burkina Faso to press the military for a speedy handover of power to a civilian ruler. The African Union (AU) says the army acted unconstitutionally when it took over after President Blaise Compaore was forced to resign on Friday.The AU on Monday gave the army a two-week deadline. Interim leader Lt Col Isaac Zida later promised to comply.Mr Compaore quit after mass protests at his bid to extend his 27-year rule. ‘Quick transition’ Col Zida met Senegalese President Macky Sall, Goodluck Jonathan of…
Five young Gambians supposedly APRC Green Boys needlessly lost their lives over the weekend in a tragic automobile accident. The incident involving an ARPC pick up truck loaded with supporters was reportedly traveling at an exuberant speed to join President Jammeh and his entourage up country. The driver of the pick up truck lost controlled of the vehicle in the Central River region near the Sofa Nyama/Pakaliba bridge, which somersaulted several times before killing several passengers. Eye witnesses to the accident said that the vehicle involved was a double carbin pickup truck carrying 13 APRC militants. Two people…
Gambia’s State House Imam turned political propagandist for President Jammeh Imam Abdoulie Fatty has been fired from his political appointment as a State House Imam. The controversial Imam reportedly was fired after making divisive comments about the Amadiyaa Muslim community in the Gambia. Imam Fatty was on record in an interview with the Standard Newspaper calling for the expulsion of the Amadima Muslim Jamas calling them non Muslims. It is worth noting that the Ahmadiyaa movement has been present in the Gambia since Independence. The Imam’s controversial message landed him in hot soup and his dismissal was announced over…
By Mathew K Jallow “Smiling Coast of West Africa” is the first welcoming characterization that headlines every tourist brochure; the intersection of happy, cheerful and sun-drenched sandy beaches that snake the might Atlantic Ocean coastline as far as the eye can see. But this was Gambia then. Today, it is almost like a journey back in time to the mysterious Aztec civilization and back again to the chilling silence on Pyongyang’s wide empty boulevards. In between, the insignificance of time space is evident in the way in which the Aztec’s human sacrifice has been fused with North Korea’s murderous art…
On the International Day to End Impunity, 26 African and international organisations have written to the Director General of the Gambia intelligence agency to raise concerns about the case of Abdoulie John and call for the return of his passport and to allow him travel safely in the Gambia. Read the letter to the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency in English and French by clicking in the link below. Mr Yankoba Badjie Director General of the National Intelligence Agency The Gambia Dakar, 2 November 2014 Re: Concerns about Abdoulie John’s case Dear Mr Badjie, We write to…