Press Release: Further Appeal For Help! In May this year, the management of JollofNews Online Newspaper took the unprecedented decision to make an online appeal for financial assistance for the up keep and maintenance of the website. In response, a few Gambians and friends of The Gambia such as Michael Scales made some financial donations while many Gambians promised to do something to keep the paper alive.
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By D. A. Jawo As we observe the first anniversary of the executions of nine prisoners by the government of President Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia on 23 August, 2012, in defiance of public opinion and appeals for clemency from all quarters, the human rights situation in the country continues to deteriorate. Even though President Jammeh was compelled by the unanimous international condemnation and outcry to the executions to announce a temporary moratorium, but there is no guarantee that he would not carry out further executions anytime in the future.
It has been a year to the day(August 23), since Yaya Jammeh of Gambia, ordered and carried out the Execution of 9 Prison inmates, in flagrant violation of The Gambian constitution and customary practice. On this day and without prior consultation with family members, The legal profession or indeed with the cabinet….9 lives were brought to an end in a brutal and inhumane way.Jammeh the coward, in his attempts to appease his fellow countrymen to deliver them from his allegations of violence and thuggery being rampant, instead reaped the wrath, anger, disgust and collective disapproval for this act of crash…
The Gambia: Yahya Jammeh admits to 9 executions; is the number of executed 26 (2012 updated) By Mathew K Jallow The oldest of the nine inmates, Lamin Darboe, had his death sentence commuted to a life in prison years ago by former President Dawda K Jawara. The youngest, Buba Yarboe of Busumbala village, suffered severe mental illness, and was totally incapable of making rational decisions, much less have the capacity to understand what was about to happen to him. And beautiful Tabara Samba, the only female in the group, a Senegalese married to a Gambian, with little children at home,…
Jointly Organised by: Coalition for Change – The Gambia (CCG), Article 19, and Raddho. Assalamu aleikum. My fellow panelists, distinguished ladies and gentlemen, Mister Chairman / Madam chairperson. Given the situation i found myself in this time last year, i am indeed truly honored and blessed to stand before you today to discuss the human rights situation in The Gambia. I am very grateful to all of you for your efforts on behalf of those facing the brunt of President Yahya Jammeh’s repressive rule.
LU DEFU WAHU – Statement on Commemoration of Prisoner Execution By Ndey Tapha Sosseh Today, Friday August 23, 2013, marks the anniversary of the executions of nine death row inmates in The Gambia Mile 2 prisons. An incident that shook the world for no one had taken it seriously that the threats made by President Jammeh at the traditional Eid El Fitr meeting on August 20,2013 with the Muslim leaders would materialize into reality. On that fateful night as news came to me from my colleague, Amadou Scattred Janneh that the executions had indeed taken place against all hopes that it would not -…
Round table on human rights and freedom of expression in Gambia Commemoration of one year after the executions of 9 prisoners Date: AUGUST 23, 2013 Venue: Radisson Blu Program Chair/facilitator: Madiambal Diagne, Journalist, PDG Group Avenir Communication 09 h 00 – 09h 30 Welcome and registration of participants 09h 30 – 10h 00 – Introduction of programme, organisers and partners – Chair (facilitator) of the round table: indicate the context of the activity and introduce the organisers and partners. – Welcome message – Minute of silence for victims of Executions – Introduction of participants 10h 00: 11h 00 Statements on…
To the charge I robustly and objectively reviewed Papa Faal’s A Week of Hell, I readily plead guilty. But I vehemently reject a faceless contention that my review of the book is “venomous”! Papa Faal placed his intellectual ware in the streams of Gambian public conversation, and I indulged his wish for some reader feedback. We disagreed on Kukoi and what he stood for, a wholly legitimate outcome in light of the public tapestry against which the events originating in July 30 must be analysed. Its seminal significance guarantees that reasonable people are unlikely ever to view this particular event…
‘Governor Sanneh Under Fire’ By Lamin Camara Two prominent youth activists of the ruling Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) has been arrested by the joint security tasked forces set up by President Jammeh under the influence of the West Coast Region’s Administrator Governor Alhagie Lamin Sanneh. According to our sources closed to the youth bureau in Brikama, the youths who have entrusted Governor Sanneh with their finances generated from the four tractors donated to them by President Jammeh for the young people in the region to involve in farming has allegedly been mismanaged by the Governor.
The ever erratic President in making personnel decisions has fired Aki Bayo as Lands minister with immediate effect. As usual no reason for the firing has been given except the usual invoking of the President’s powers mandated by the constitution. The press release from the President’s office reads: The President of the republic acting under the provisions in the constitution under section 71 (4) has relieved Minister Momodou Aki Bayo from his cabinet position as Minister of Lands and Local Government with effect on Thursday August 22, 2013.