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…
Author: Gainako
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.
Ya Soffie Ceesay, one of the most positive and dynamic people I have ever known will be among those leaders honored for “their contributions to the African Diaspora following the Annual Proclamation of African Heritage Month by County Executive Ike Leggett” by the Montgomery County’s African Affairs Advisory Group. Soffie’s work in the Gambian and African committee in Maryland is tremendous. She has been very instrumental in assisting people, especially those underprivileged and needing help from the state or county. She has always done so without fanfare and with utmost professionalism and total confidentiality. We at the Gambian American Association are…
By Prince Bubacarr Aminata Sankanu Dear Editor and decent people of the world, my sleep last night was interrupted by sad messages from the heart of provincial Gambia on abuse of office and corruption. The continuing marginalization of Sotuma Sere Community, 360 kilometres from Banjul, reached another climax this week when the Governor of the URR (Upper River Region) Omar Khan arrested youths of my community for protesting against corruption, unfair extra-judicial ruling and land grabbing.
By our Embedded Reporter in Banjul The Family of Gambia’s fugitive and erstwhile Chief Of Defense Staff (CDS) Ndure Cham an alleged mastermind of the March 2006 abortive Coup has been in limbo following unofficial reports by a U.S based Gambian online newspaper thegambiaecho.com about his arrest by the Jammeh Government in Banjul on Friday August 9, 2013 while he joined his extended family near Farafenni to observe the Muslim Feast of Eid. Following the online reports of Ndure Cham’s arrest Gainako received numerous calls to further investigate the authenticity of the story and shed more light to the…
By Matthew K Jallow Senegal and United States are the epicenters of horror stories told with uncommon eloquence and earthshaking disbelief. It is the story of a nation told in many different pieces, by many escapees. It is a bizarre story that portrays the obscene picture of a country devastated by an uncharacteristic political inertia and glaring ruthlessness. It is also the story of Gambia maligned by Yahya Jammeh’s tragic contempt for democracy and scathing ignorance of the rule of law; in a country on the precipice of unnerving political and economic debacle. The Gambia’s unfolding story highlights the tragic…
By Lamin Camara Gambian Inmates serving their respective sentences have been sleeping on bare hard floor at the main notorious Mile II Prisons in Banjul sources at the Prisons told Gainako newspaper. A Source at the Prison who asked for cover, told our reporter in an interview Wednesday August 21, 2013 that the condition in which the inmates are at Mile 2 Central Prison is worrying and needs an urgent attention from the Government of the Gambia before there would be a catastrophe in the Prison.
VISIT OF PA NDERRY MBYE TO THE UNITED KINGDOM The Campaign For Democratic Change Gambia, under the chairmanship of Mr. B.B.Darbo, wish to take this opportunity to extend an invitation to Mr. Pa Nderry Mbai (proprietor of FREEDOM) to attend a symposium organised by the aforementioned, on the 31st of August 2013, at Athlone Hall, Camden Town, London, at 15.30 pm.