Author: Gainako
Gainako has confirmed that President Jammeh and his large entourage have arrived in New York in the United States early Monday morning to attend the 68th UN General Assembly. The President is accompanied by high profile government officials including the New Secretary General and head of the Civil Service Momodou Sabally who also doubles as Minister of Presidential affairs. Foreign minister Momodou Tangara is also reported to be among the delegation.
In anticipation of the inevitable, there has been a flurry of political activity from London to Raleigh to Stockholm and beyond, by men and women of good will but with mixed agendas which can be characterized as a melange of individual and national ambitions. By national, I mean non-individual or -personal agenda. As the inevitability of a regime change becomes more visible in the rear view mirror, and the possibility of replacing Jammeh becomes less of a pipe dream and more of real possibility, it energizes the activists to ratchet up their agitation, and the pundits to pontificate…
PRESS RELEASE ISSUED BY MAI AHMAD FATTY, GMC LEADER Those who took an Oath to protect, defend and enforce the Constitution and other laws of the Land should not be found wanting in their application. Only a regime that thrives on terror and anarchy transforms the State into a serial law breaker. Fatou Camara is reportedly behind bars for well over the Constitutionally stipulated period. Our concern here relates purely to the breach of the law by the State in respect of her due process rights. The regime of Yaya Jammeh must release Fatou Camara immediately, for her continued detention…
That the Jammeh establishment in Gambia is reportedly selling Visas to pilgrims to attend Hajj comes as little surprise. The regime is showing signs of being impecunious, following sales of family silver such as Embassy properties abroad, the erratic levying of taxes on all businesses, seizure of prime land and real estate from unsuspecting owners, and interference in the running of the currency market.
By Mathew K Jallow It seemed as much an expression of frustration as it was of concern. But Dr. Momodou Lamin Sedat Jobe was adamant. “If this struggle is to make any progress we need leadership,” says the former director of UNESCO’s division of culture and erstwhile Gambian Minister of Foreign Affairs under the regime of Yahya Jammeh. Dr. Jobe’s statement came on the heels of the recently established Raleign Steering Committee and Omar Jallow’s (OJ) much publicized rejection of any portfolio in the Steering Committee as constituted. But that is only part of the story. Dr Jobe, while…
By Nanama Keita In a civilized society, an arrest is made when there exists a “probable cause” to believe that a person has, or is in a process of committing a crime. But in our little Gambia, being arrested or jailed could come with a complete different meaning, and ironically, a positive one – patriotism! In another word, if one does not have an arrest-record in present-day Gambia, then that should be a probable cause to suggest that that person is a criminal. To simply put it, what we’re witnessing in today’s Gambia is daily arrest of the innocent…
By Lamin Sabally, Minneapolis, MN The Midwestern cold US State of Minnesota is on the record to have documented stable rises in the number of not only Gambian immigrants, but a significant increase in the number of African immigrants in general as well as those from Asia. Although there are no official data on the exact number of Gambians living here, cogent unofficial approximations gathered by a few Gambia Association officials and some long-settled Gambian immigrants have suggested that there are over 1000 Gambian immigrants in Minnesota. Officially though, Liberians made up the largest West African immigrant population and…
The slide towards total and absolute diplomatic isolation and economic decline of the Jammeh regime continues. First, the British Home Office issued a travel advisory for The Gambia, specifically targeted at British tourists planning on visiting The Gambia this season, warning about continued deterioration of security environment characterized by frequent arrests of ordinary citizens. Second, the United States Embassy in Banjul issued a press release announcing the conclusion of a three-day visit to Banjul of Ms. Sue Ford Patrick, the new Casamance Adviser resident in Dakar – a visit that signals the end of the free hand Jammeh seemed…