Author: Gainako

By Dr. Abdoulaye Saine President Jammeh Must Immediately Enter into Talks with the Political Opposition and Diaspora Gambian Dissidents By any measure, the August 2nd, 2014 political protests that greeted President Yahya Jammeh’s US-Africa Summit visit, was unprecedented in its skillful execution, scope, and success. Gambian dissidents traveled, at great financial and personal expense to Washington, D.C., from far-flung states like Alaska, California, Arizona and remaining states, to register their dissatisfaction with Jammeh, who has since 1994, ruled this tiny and impoverished country with an iron-fist. Jammeh was holed-up…

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By Sigga Jagne I MODERATED the CAUCUS on EBOLA for the SIERRA LEON OPEN GOVERNMENT INITIATIVE LAST WEEK in WASHINGTON, DC: Lessons I Learned through the process. Containing the current Ebola outbreak is going to take a concept that is often foreign in Africa- training the people in the community to become a part of the public health response; particularly strengthening their ability to identify and report cases early, identify & report the contacts of infected persons so as to stop the cycle of transmission; and to raise their awareness and knowledge about how to prevent infection & what…

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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Gambia has postponed at the last minute a week-long visit by two U.N. experts on torture and extrajudicial killings, a move they said was ‘extremely worrying’ and cast doubt on the  country’s commitment to a better human rights record. The European Union, which has given Gambia 75 million euros of aid in the past six years, suspended a new seven-year aid programme worth 150 million euros in February because of the west African country’s poor rights record and is due to review that decision after bilateral talks in November. Jammeh has drawn international condemnation by subjecting political opponents…

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THE AFTERMATH OF THE AMERICAN DEMOSTRATION: ITS PROS, CONS AND LESSONS FOR BOTH CAMPS President Jammeh’ recent gracing the US-Africa Summit has sparked unprecedented and widely publicized protests against the Jammeh regime by Gambian dissenters in America. On the one hand, President Jammeh was holed and shamed by the demonstrators who barricaded in his hotel for several hours, as he was marred from attending the most crucial conferences of the Summit. A further blow from the Obama regime left an unrepairable dent on Jammeh’s already punctured pride. On the other hand, the dissenters also did not leave their demonstration ground…

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The death of another young promising Gambian talent  has been reported. Mr. Kassi Bondi a young Gambian talent in his late thirties died mysteriously in Dakar Senegal on August 7th, 2014 while on a private visit to Senegal. Bondi who works as a senior manager at the Gambia Public Procurement Authority since 2007 went to Dakar to collect his certification from the Italian Consulate which awards English Accredited certifications for those who completed their studies in Italy. Kassi recently completed his Masters degree studies in Italy where he studied accounting and public finance. Before moving to the Gambia Public Procurement…

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Reports coming from Banjul has it that Former Secretary General and minister for Presidential affairs Momodou Sabally has appeared before a high court Judge today in Banjul. Mr. Sabally who was dismissed by President Jammeh has been in detention with the NIA for over a month without charges. He was arraigned before a high court judge who denied him bail. State prosecutors have filed economic crimes and abuse of office charges against the former secretary general and minister for Presidential Affairs for causing economic loss to Social Security and Housing Finance Corporation SSHFC. He has been remanded with the NIA…

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The Gambia like any other West African state is fit to be declared a crop failed country. Rains were expected since June 15 2014 but to date; it looks like we are still in dry season. There has not been any serious rain to be considered a start of the rains. The ActionAid International Gambia, which has a focus on agriculture, has its Kundang office team out and about in the three main districts; Niamina East, Dankunku, and Niamina West to see how the rains  are doing in their respective…

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‘You owe the Gambian people the truth and nothing but the Truth’ Editors, Thank you and your other colleagues for the wonderful coverage on the citizens arrest of the big RAT Yahya Jammeh. Gambians here in Banjul who have to deal with this dictator daily are very proud of you all and the true sons of The Gambia who took to the streets and showed him, He was nobody, but a DIRIMOE.The reason I am writing is that the President arrived here today and because of the disgrace he encountered in Washington, the stooges at the APRC bureau were quick…

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The Gambian authorities have ordered that, “with immediate effect and until further notice”, four local airline companies serving Banjul and the sub-region must “not to pick up passengers in Freetown, Monrovia and Conakry respectively as inbound passengers to Banjul”. The Point newspaper can confirm from official sources that the ministry of Transport in Banjul sent out this prohibition order in a letter dated 7th August 2014 to the airlines’ management. The letter was signed by the permanent secretary ministry of Transport, A.O. Camara, and sent to the country manager Brussels Airlines, country manager Arik Airlines, managing director Gambia Bird…

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Since he took over power in 1994, Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has freely rule over the Gambian people without any resistance whatsoever. He hires, fires, arrest, detain and imprison with impunity without a single resistant either from an individual, group of citizens or an institution. For almost 20 years Jammeh has imposed on Gambia everything he wants whether it is for or against the general interest of the Gambian people. He managed to subdue citizens; slowly destroy the little institutions he inherited such as the Student Union, Press union, Labor Union, Teachers union, Bar association and the little judicial…

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