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FATOU JOW MANNEH-Freedom Newspaper Mail Bag, what our readers say today
Sunday, May 07, 2006 (473 reads)
By: Alhagie Bah, a good brother-at- large
Thank for a good job and may the Almighty Allah continue to protect you.
Sirs, I would like to appeal to Ms. FATOU JOW MANNEH through you not to forget the saying "those in glass houses should not throw stones".Fatou Jow Manneh can lambast Jammeh and his government as she pleases and I agree with her. But I am very worried about her documented "lack of respect for the journalism profession and colleagues!"
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“Citizens Must Have Ability to Express Themselves”-US Ambassador in Gambia!!!
Sunday, May 07, 2006 (380 reads)
“Citizens Must Have Ability to Express Themselves”
By Momodou Justice Darboe & Njaimeh Bah
The United States ambassador to The Gambia, Joseph D. Stafford, has highlighted that citizens must have the ability to express themselves and to debate alternative ideas. He added that media institutions that are independent from the state allow the peaceful expression and competition of ideas, on which democracy depends.
 
US Ambassador Joseph D. Stafford,
says Gambian citizens should be able to express
themselves freely without fear!!!
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It is a bad,bitter grain!
Sunday, May 07, 2006 (307 reads)
Authored by: Essa Bokarr SEY.
Do not let it run in those arteries.
It is acidic and bitter.
It eats, it peels, it breeds bitter seeds.
It spreads inside.
It solidifies bad blood.
It is a bitter grain.
It is a fuse that ignites this bulb we call hate.
It also bites from inside.
ESSA BOKAAR SEY, ANOTHER
GREAT MIND AND SON OF PEN
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EDITORIAL: Why Jammeh Must Go.
Saturday, May 06, 2006 (390 reads)
EDITORIAL
The real Gambia we are living under today, can be best understood if we look at our society at two levels. The first is at the people's level. Milton Meyer in his book, They thought They Were Free, documents the lives of ten law-abiding German citizens during the time the Nazis were growing in strength and influence. The gradual and insidious way in which German society was transformed, and the way the people were inadvertently caught up in this process, has distinctive conceptual parallels to what we are experiencing in Gambia today. Since 1994, we have witnessed a gradual habituation of our people to be "governed little by little by surprise,” as Meyer puts it.
JAMMEH GOT TO
GO COME WHAT MAY
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Re:Chaos at the Observer Office-Freedom Newspaper Mail Bag!!
Saturday, May 06, 2006 (412 reads)
BY SAI
Hey Mbai,
I’m a BIG FAN of the website, and you are doing a great job and keep it up. But in regards to the story about JAW, he is a hard working young man, and he was also a graduate of Gambia High School, I have known Jaw since nursery school, back in the 80's, and he is also a cousin of mine. If you don't mine to be corrected, which I know you like as a professional journalist, in regards to Jaws mum, she is alive and her name is Fatoumatta Njo, not sure if the father is alive, because I left Gambia 12 years ago, but I frequently visit there, but anyways Jaw’s father name is Karamo Manneh.
Taal exposed again!!!
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Gambia’s fledging media is learning how to emerge from crippling harassment-Yorro Jallow
Saturday, May 06, 2006 (245 reads)
World Press Freedom Day
“Freedom of the Press in the Gambia”
A lecture by Alagi Jallow
May 4, 2006
Intro: I want to thank Amnesty International for inviting me to speak about the importance of press freedoms.
I would like to answer ‘What happens to a society that lacks freedom of press?’ in my talk with you today. I come from the Gambia, a small country in West Africa that gained its independence from the British in 1965. It has been known in the past as the ‘smiling coast’—a place of sunshine, welcome and real generosity of spirit. With decolonization, it became the home of the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights, and it was a bastion of democracy in a continent beset by military take-overs and depotic regimes.
Independent Managing Editor
Alagi Yorro Jallow, addresses Amnesty
forum in New York
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BREAKING NEWS:Chaos at the Observer Office.
Saturday, May 06, 2006 (404 reads)
Chaos at the Observer Office.
BY AN INSIDER
News has reached the Freedom newspaper that one of the senior reporters at the Observer newspaper in Banjul, Ebrima Jaw Manneh, has been fired and then hired back, due to what Sarja Taal has called a mistaken identity. Ebrima Jaw Manneh was fired because all this time Sarja and the Jammeh camp think he is Fatou Jaw Manneh's younger brother.
Saja Taal on it again!!!
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Conspiracy and Conspirators -Commentary!!!
Saturday, May 06, 2006 (301 reads)
By: Ahe-mard S. Fireh a.k. Henry Kuntz
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
-- Thomas Paine
Perhaps it's the need to self-preserve, which is a natural tendency of humans. We all know the consequence of incurring Jammeh's wrath. Or perhaps, it's an attempt to win the man's (if he still has humanity in him) favour. We all know, also, that he rewards generously, those who sing his praises and kneel and bow when he walks by.
Jammeh is a full blown dictator.
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BREAKING NEWS:President Jammeh could not attend his brother's graduation due to fear-Sussan, others are here...
Saturday, May 06, 2006 (613 reads)
The military boys have succeeded in instilling fear into the mind of Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh. Jammeh, has cancel all future trips in view of the looming security crisis hitting the West African country. His own blood brother Ansumana Jammeh, is said to be graduating today at a Kansas University, but Jammeh could not show up due to insecurity currently haunting him and his government. This was the leader who said he fears nothing, but guess what he fears losing his job as a President. A source who called the Freedom Newspaper last night hinted that the President, delegated a high powered delegation led by Susan Waffa Ogoo to witness Ansumana’s graduation.
 
JAMMEH'S MARABOUTS AT WORK
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HOROMSI:THEY SAY DABA MARENA IS ALIVE-WHO ARE THEY TRYING TO FOOL?
Friday, May 05, 2006 (867 reads)
DABA IS NOT ALIVE-LET JAMMEH PROVE US
WRONG BY COMING WITH EVIDENCE
Horomosi: “ The other day this dude called me to say that Daba Marena was talking to one of his relatives in Wisconsin here in the United States. When I asked for Daba’s relative phone number, so that the Freedom Newspaper, can verify the story, the folk promised to get Daba’s family member’s phone number for us. It is now getting to one week, no word was heard from the same folk. Well, interestingly, the following day another folk in New York called this paper, and asked this editor if he have any information about Daba Marena. This Editor was busy on the phone talking to a colleague, but the caller insisted that he wanted to know if we have information about Daba Marena.
NDURE CHAM'S WIFE
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