I volunteer to be a peace broker between H.E President Jammeh, the opposition parties, and the Diaspora groups, hope you will join me or support me!!! Among the plans to be discussed are: 1. The President to announce he will not run for 2016 elections 2. Term limits to the presidency to be introduced to the National Assembly (No President should serve more than two 5year term periods). This means no more than 10yrs in office. The National Assembly must hold new elections in 2016 that should reflect the choice of the people. There will also be checks and…
Author: Gainako
PRESIDENT MACKY SALL, NEW BUILDING AND APPOINTING SENEGALESE DIASPORA TO IMPORTANT POSITION President Macky Sall at the sight of the new building for the Senegalese offices in New York It seems that we like writing about the Senegalese, don’t we? Well, it seems they are always doing something worthy of mention. Well, as the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit came to an end in Washington, DC, Senegalese President Macky Sall, jetted to New York. He spent a whole 90 minutes in the city before returning to the JFK airport to fly back to Dakar, Senegal. What he did…
Vandy, a 7-year-old who contracted the virus more than a month ago, is now Ebola-free after struggling through serious symptoms of the potentially fatal virus, according to UNICEF. “Little Vandy provided laughter at the most unlikely moments inside that ward,” a volunteer nurse told UNICEF. “I’m so happy for his recovery.” Vandy is one of a handful of success stories UNICEF featured on its blog, highlighting stories of survival amid widespread uncertainty. Sierra Leone has been one of the countries hardest hit by the outbreak, with several hundred killed due to the virus, the Guardian reported. Unwarranted blame has only made it more difficult for…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…