By Lamin Camara Barely two days before the Muslim Feast of Eid-Alfitir locally call Koriteh, Soldiers were seen in the streets of the Greater Banjul area and the West Coast Region distributing Milk Tins, Sugar and Bread to the Gambian population under the directive of President Jammeh. The Soldiers who were on board a Military Truck could be seen busy throwing the charities enclosed in black nylon plastic bags, forcing people to follow them while they continue to dish bags eye witnesses told this reporter.
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By Gainako’s Embedded Reporter Gainako’s military embedded reporter embarked on an inside assessment of the general feelings of the Gambian military personnel and their loyalty towards President Jammeh. Our reporter who is based in one of the military barracks took secret assessment of how the military feels and how they will potentially react if security matters were to arise in the country. The need for this assessment become necessary when private conversations with some military and security personnel in the country increasingly sound frustrated and betrayed by President Jammeh and his security circles. Many of the military officers junior and…
Following the expulsion of chad blogger Makaila makaila Nguébla from Senegal on 7 May 2013 to Guinea-Conakry now living in France with a grant of a long-term visa, Abubacarr Saidykhan, a Gambian journalist living in Dakar faces risk of deportation to Banjul by Senegalese authorities. Abubacarr Saidykhan a freelance investigative journalist jointly condemned the execution of death row inmates in The Gambia in September 2012 with Baboucarr Ceesay the first vice president of Gambia Press Union by applying for a police to organize a peaceful demonstration.
By Lamin Camara As Gambians continue to suffer from oppression in the hands of the Jammeh administration and its accomplishes, Gainako has been reliably tipped off by intelligent sources in The Gambia that Momodou Lamin Shyngle Nyassi the Propaganda Secretary of the main Opposition Party in The Gambia may risk arrest and detention by the Jammeh administration in Banjul once he returns home from his current tour in the United States of America.
The Gambian President on Monday has effected a minor Cabinet Reshuffle under the powers vested in him by the constitution of the Republic of The Gambia. A News Release from the Office of The President noted that ministers of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology, Energy, Transportation, Works and Infrastructure, have been relieved of their positions with immediate effect without explanation.
By Our Atlanta Based Correspondent The Atlanta Gambian Christian Organization is poised to celebrate their twentieth commemoration of the feast of the Assumption into Heaven by the Blessed Virgin, Mary commonly known as Sang Marie, The celebrations according to the President of The Gambia Christian Organization, Mrs Yvonne Ndure- Mboob will kick off of Friday 16th. August with a welcome reception held in honor of His Lordship, Bishop Robert Patrick Ellison of the Catholic Diocese of Banjul who will be the guest of honor for this years historic celebrations and also the principal celebrant of solemn High Mass to be held on Saturday at the church of…
Little did Gambians know that the autocratic Jammeh regime was operated and directed by marabous and supervised by Imam Abdoulie fatty until he emptied the closet of his cabinet to the Council of Elders who called on him to mark the end of Ramadan. In his bid to show Gambians that he is in charge of his government’s affairs, President Jammeh shockingly disclosed to his visitors and viewers of GRTS that most of his cabinet ministers believe so much in their marabous that they pay little or no heed at all to his cautions and instructions. He went further to…
By DA Jawo While most people will no doubt agree with President Yahya Jammeh’s condemnation of the British government for besieging for over a year the Ecuadorean embassy in London, apparently in a bid to apprehend Julius Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, as well as his criticism of the US government’s desperate attempts to get Edward Snowden extradited to the US for blowing the whistle against its internet surveillance program, during his most recent exclusive interview with the GRTS as part of the commemoration of his 22nd July “Revolution”, but his approach has been quite abominable, to say the least.
In an exclusive interview with Gainako radio former Vice President of the Gambia Honorable Bakary Bunja Darboe who had briefly returned to serve the AFPRC during its early days has described President Jammeh as someone who lacks “maturity, capacity to think and understanding of basic issues” Mr. Darboe was responding to a question by Gainako’s co-editor Demba Baldeh who asked about his impression of President Jammeh when he met him upon his return to work for the AFPRC government. In what appears to be a high level assessment of first impressions of a young leader, from someone who is highly…
By Mathew K Jallow For those Gambians with even the most basic understanding of economics, it seems inevitable. And it is. It is now only a matter of when, before the looming economic implosion; not whether. For something which began on that fateful July day back in 1994, the unraveling of the Gambian economy has been a long time in the making. The dire consequences of Yahya Jammeh’s Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council’s (AFPRC), voodoo economics are coming back to bite, and no amount of glowing, yet mendacious World Bank and IMF economic health reports can restrain the hardship precipitated…