24 British MPs representing a wide spectrum of political parties including Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats, SDLP, Democratic Union Party and Alliance Party called on the British government to impose visa sanctions and asset freezes on Gambian officials involve in gross human rights violations. The Early Day Motion(348) introduced by Labour Party MP Katy Clark also urges the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to put an end to impunity in The Gambia and further calls on the Government to lead an international effort in the UN to secure a resolution against Africa’s most repressive nation and to put…
Author: Gainako
To say the former minister of Justice is in deep trouble in Gambia is an understatement. Former minister Lamin Jorbateh commonly known as babadinding Jorbateh is in a hot soup facing ten plus counts of official corruption and abuse of office alongside former solicitor General Pa Harry Jammeh and Ngoju Bah. The former minister is caught in a serious scandal and charged with several counts that could land him imprisonment for a very long time if not for the rest of his life.
Saturday July 20, 20135:0 0-7:00 pm EST Conference Call # and Code: (605) 475-5900 & 416 565 6# Vision: ‘A Democratic Republic of The Gambia’ Mission: To Create the Requisite Human capacity capable of Democracy A discussion forum about the state of our nation and our political struggle! We recognized and appreciated both past and present efforts. However we hold a strong conviction that our problems have long outgrown the organizing for the next elections and as well the ordinary work of political parties in a democratic environment.
Vision: ‘A Democratic Republic of The Gambia’ A reminder that a Teleconference will be held: Saturday July 20, 2013 5:00-7:00 pm EST Conference Call # and Code: (605) 475-5900 & 416 565 6# Mission: Creation of Requisite Human Capacity capable of living a life of Democracy
It has been confirmed that the Gambia government has agreed to pay a US lobby firm based in Washington DC (BGR Government Affairs, LLC) a monthly fee of $45,000 equivalent of (D1, 440,000 Gambian Dalasis) One million four hundred and forty thousand Gambian Dalasis MONTHLY to help the government find funding for a free girls education in the country. The shocking report was initially reported by Freedomnewspaper.com and Politico (see original filing document @ http://www.fara.gov/docs/5430-Exhibit-AB-20130710-45.pdf)…
A Tribute to My Sainted Mother, Mrs. Lilian Best, Delivered at the American Embassy on Mother’s Day, 2010, at the Invitation of Ambassador Linda Thomas Greenfield By Kenneth Y. Best It was pouring from the Heavens in Monrovia, Liberia that gloomy September morning. My mother, Mrs. Lilian Best, competing with the heavy raindrops that fell relentlessly upon the zinc roof of our house at Broad and Norris Streets, Snapper Hill, screamed out my name. “Kenneth, Kenneth,” she bellowed, in a persistent attempt to awaken her first son, then 15, to get on with his morning chores. The chores were everything except cooking…
By Lamin Sabally, Minneapolis, Minnesota Gambians and Senegalese in the Midwestern state of Minnesota on Thursday July 4th impressively converged in their huge numbers to celebrate the American Independence anniversary at the usual Columbia Park located at the suburb of the great city of Minneapolis. The annual fun- packed event which was jointly organized by the Gambia Association in Minnesota and their Senegalese counterpart, was also attended by non-Senegambian natives including friends of the two inseparable countries linguistically, ethically and culturally. Part of the whole day barbeque and musical event was filled with exciting adult sporting competitions that included lemon…
By Mathew K Jallow The concurrent meetings were bound to happen; and to happen at this time, at this moment. With the festering economic hardship and international pressure mounting on Yahya Jammeh, Gambia’s feckless regime needed saving grace, and they got it; not once, but twice. Certainly, the agreements the European Union and the Senegalese government reached with Gambia’s sanguinary regime are still unclear, but Gambians remain tepid, yet securely tethered to the hope that they will not again be victimized by the EU and Senegal’s lowering of rights standards or gratuitous surrender of their core beliefs to banal pressures…
The late mutineer’s place in the national narrative is assured, but sullied, nonetheless. By Cherno Baba Jallow By a quirk of fate, the self-described Gambian “revolutionary freedom fighter” Kukoie Samba Sanyang had to die, not in a war zone, but in a hospital ward. Partaking in the ghastly Liberian civil war and having lived a life perilously close to violent death, times inestimable, perhaps the mastermind of the 1981 abortive coup in The Gambia could take solace from the fact that his was a “peaceful” death not a grisly one – one characterized by bloodbath in a war zone or…
Obama’s power Africa selection criteria on which nations to choose drew criticism from attendees who were surprise on why some nations were selected over others. However, as usual it was quickly realized that America must definitely put its interest in the forefront of any selection criteria. One of the attendees of the event – a former Gambian diplomat put together a recap of his observations as reported below. I did not want to rain on our own parade yesterday when I side-stepped the issue of the selection criteria applied by the Obama administration in arriving at the six countries that…