Author: Gainako

By: Lamin Sabally, Minneapolis, Minnesota The inescapability of death is a displeasing unavoidable shocking reminder to Muslim believers that this life is extremely mundane even with its exceptional propensity to incite wealth, power, and status temptations.  In scampering for these worldly materials, sometimes, human desires tend to push the weak among believers to be venomously corrupt at the core to get the wealth at all cost without weighing the ramifications. Some in the fatal process will go to the extreme to indulge in despicable ventures such as robbery, hoodwinking people through numerous suspicious means, and money laundering amongst a…

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In a strong reaction to his disqualification as Candidate for GFF Presidency by the Normalization Committee, former GFA President Seedy Kinteh has rubbished the committee’s actions describing it as “Bogus, Erroneous and Misleading”. Mr. Kinteh. In a press statement emailed to the Press Kinteh dismissed his disqualification as baseless and without merit. He along with Mustapha Kebbeh also former GFF President are allegedly involved in bribery scandal involving Qatari bit for 2018 World CuP and Gambia’s alleged cheating for playing over age players respectively.  Both Kinteh and Kebbeh are young dynamic football enthusiast who were freely elected as Presidents. However…

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(Dakar, September 10, 2014) – President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia should not sign a new Criminal Code amendment that would increase the punishment for “aggravated homosexuality” to life in prison, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. The measure would further add to the climate of fear for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people in Gambia. Several provisions of the law violate international human rights law and amount to persecution on the basis of real or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity. Sections of the law are similar to the harsh homophobic legislation that was annulled in…

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Former Lands and Local Government Minister Lamin Waa Juwara is facing a new charge, this time at the Brikama magistrates court where he was arraigned on Monday charged with abuse of office. Waa Juwara appeared before magistrate Jobarteh, and he denied the charge. He was then granted court bail of D500,000 with two Gambian sureties. The charge sheet stated that former Minister Waa Juwara some time in 2012, at Sinchu Gidom village in the West Coast Region, being an employee of the Gambia government as Minister of Local Government, Lands and Regional Administration, abused the authority of his office…

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A key reason why the World Health Organisation and leading health groups have warned that the epidemic will take months to bring under control and may effect up to 2000 people is that no health crisis can be swiftly and sustainably resolved with weak health systems. Health workers are the core of every health system, but most African countries have only between 5% and 40% of numbers and required mix of health workers. In addition current levels of health financing are a fraction of required investment. Ebola, and the ongoing challenges of HIV, Malaria, TB, Neglected Tropical Diseases, Non-Communicable Diseases,…

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Reports reaching Gainako has it that Gambia’s Parliament has passed a strict anti-gay law imposing life sentence and other harsh punishment on Gay/Homosexual acts in the country. The passage of the law followed months of anti homosexual drumming by the President Yahya Jammeh calling homosexuality as “one of the biggest threats to human existence” in New York last September while addressing the UN General Assembly. The President has since used the controversial and divisive homosexual issue to rally support for his continuous bashing of the West. Below is an article published by the associated Press on the highly sensitive…

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‘NEW UNITY GOVERNMENT BRINGS HOPE FOR MILLIONS OF IRAQI PEOPLE’  SECRETARY KERRY: Good afternoon, everybody. Tonight we mark what is unquestionably a major milestone for Iraq, and what President Obama has made clear will be a cornerstone of our efforts against ISIL. Just a few hours ago, overcoming the obstacle of ethnic and sectarian divides, the Iraqi parliament approved a new and inclusive government, one that has the potential to unite all of Iraq’s diverse communities for a strong Iraq, a united Iraq, and to give those communities the chance to build the future that all Iraqis desire and…

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Vaccinated monkeys have developed “long-term” immunity to the Ebola virus, raising a prospect of successful human trials, say scientists. The experiments by the US National Institutes of Health showed immunity could last at least 10 months. Human trials of the vaccine started this week in the US and will extend to the UK and Africa. The World Health Organization says more than 2,000 people have now died in the outbreak in West Africa. Several experimental treatments are now being considered to help contain the spread of Ebola. This includes a vaccine being developed by the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases…

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Evidence as well as allegations of torture of prisoners and detained Gambian citizens in the hands of Gambia’s National intelligence agents and members of Jammeh’s security officers has been apparent in the Gambia for the last decade or more. We have seen citizens among them journalists; political opponents, APRC loyalists who fall apart with the government and ordinary citizens arrested for alleged crimes suffer severe tortures in the hands of Gambia’s security forces. Physical evidence of torture has even been produced before Gambian courts including the high court by citizens…

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“The wind of change is blowing through this continent…” These famous words of the then British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, spoken 54 years ago, ring true again today, albeit in a different context. Today, democracy is well established in Africa and the shackles of colonialism and discrimination have been shed. Despite certain remaining challenges, freedom is reigning across the continent. New winds of change have gathered in a storm of magnificent proportions and are sweeping across the continent. A storm of economic emancipation and growth is gaining force in our hills and valleys, our mountains and glades, rivers, deserts,…

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