By D. Baldeh Gainako Associate Editor The leader of the main opposition party in the Gambia the United Democratic Party (UDP) has said that signs of political change are clearly visible in the Gambia. Mr. Darboe was the guest speaker at a political event in Seattle organized by UDP militants on Friday September 13th, 2013 where all Gambians were openly invited. Mr. Darboe opened his speech with message of condolence to the family and friends of the late Saidou Ndow who passed away in Atlanta Georgia on Thursday September 12, 2013. He extended his message to the Gambian community…
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Grahamstown, South Africa, September 5, 2013 – The African Media Initiative (AMI) is pleased to announce the start of the second round of its pan-African journalism competition. The African Story Challenge is now inviting applications for funding of great story ideas on health. Twenty projects shortlisted for the final prize will be awarded grants of up to $20,000 each to produce health narratives that use innovative journalistic storytelling techniques around the theme of diseases prevention and treatment in Africa.
By Embedded Reporter The wide spread dissatisfaction in the handling of governing institutions in the Gambia keep coming out to the public. This time it was Officers of the Gambia Police Force (GPF) who have complained to Gainako’s Embedded Reporter Thursday that their condition too needs some attention from the general public and the International community. The unarmed, under trained and severely underpaid force is facing unprecedented challenges they have never encountered before in the history of the police force. In addition to numerous cases of unnecessary government charges of crimes on civil servants, ordinary civilians, unending investigation with meager resources,…
My World: It’s a world full of ironies For the unimaginable always dawns The next day It’s a giant in captivity In which world decision-makers Upstage one another on the world stage To stall in order to fudge So there is guarantee for their success in the next election But none of such triumphs for the next generation The way of the political world My World It’s held hostage by a loon Sir Backward Sir Backward is from Backwardtown Backward in all ways For Sir Backward Always does the unimaginable For Sir Backward Washes his dirty linens in public Eats…
Culled From The Africanglobe, August 20,2013 AFRICANGLOBE – Viewers of CNN on the weekend of July 27-28, 2013, might have been stunned at the gigantic amount of wealth Africa possesses. Not only that; but also how much of the gadgets of everyday life depend on resources from Africa. The CNN broadcast was titled “How Africa’s minerals fuel your world” and it sourced its data from British Geological Survey, America’s CIA, and the World Bank among others. Naturally, the documentary generated many comments: with the general theme being if Africa is so rich in resources, why are millions of its people living…
By Binneh s Minteh When we take an in-depth look at the most recent tension among the Permanent members of the United Nations Security Council following chemical weapons usage in Syria, it is quite evident that world politics around emerging challenges and contradictions continues to be driven by the interaction of power, interests and institutions on the international stage. In the case of Syria, divisions were not only evident of usual global power realignment, with Russia and China on one side of pendulum and the United States (US), Britain and France on the other side, but the divisions among…
UDP militants in Seattle invites all Gambians into a BBQ and meeting with party leaders Alhagie Lawyer Ousainou Darboe and Party propaganda secretary Syngle Nyassi on Friday September 13, 2013 at the shoreline Church. For more information contact: Ebrima Dibba, Fabu Sanneh Saidy Cessay.
By Lamin Camara Barely a week after the dismissal of the Kiang West Lawmaker by President Yahya Jammeh from the governing Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction(APRC), things seems to be very tough for the militants of the party with the latest causality to join Yaya Dibba is Alhagie Saikouna Sanneh, Regional Youth Mobilizer and Coordinator for the West Coast Region. A news release from the office of the APRC in Kanifing stated that the president of the Republic who also doubles as the chairman and party leader of the governing Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC), His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhagie…
Kasim Kanji died at the hands of Jammeh’s rag-tag but brutal security apparatus. The young hotel worker underwent severe torture sessions before his neck was broken, and his lifeless body returned to where he was initially picked up. From this point on, it was the job of the Abuko police to complete the sinister job of concealing what happened, fabricating stories and terrorizing any one who dared to report what they saw. Unconfirmed reports say the parents and other family members have since been picked up by the police for speaking about the death of their son.
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