Gambia: The Incarceration of  Dr Janneh should be a Rallying Point to End the Injustice             

By Landing Nyassi

Tears ran down my cheeks as I navigate through the cruel verdict handed on Dr Janneh and Co for a crime that any rational person would find it difficult to digest.  How can someone be sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labor for distributing T shirts bearing the following “Coalition for Change the Gambia End to Dictatorship now”.  This verdict did not come as a surprise for this is the way despots operate to silence the disgruntled population.

‘I DON’T WANT ANY OF YOU TO ATTEND MY BURIAL IF I DIE.’ Halifa Salleh Tells Foroyaa Reporters Who Signed A Petition Letter

Relationship between Foroyaa Newspaper staffers and its Founding Editors is reaching its lowest ebb, even though the papers Management has been busy trying to assure its readers and the general public that the situation is under control arguing that there are some “cyber terrorists, and informer journalists” blowing the debacle out of hand. Well the latest dispatch from Banjul suggests that there is indeed a problem at Foroyaa and if not handle with care, it could degenerate into a full blown crisis. We will tell why, and how complicated the Foroyaa internal revolution is in a minute. An internal petition signed by reporters demanding for better working conditions is causing an acrimonious working relationship at the nation’s most vibrant civic education paper. The paper that earns its fame for promoting social justice, transparent, just and equal Gambian society is battling with an internal conflict—which is creating a bad blood among its reporters and management. Foroyaa’s Founding Editor, Sociologist and politician Halifa Sallah said if he was to die today, he doesn’t want the protesting Foroyaa reporters to attend his funeral. A disturbing statement coming from a man some of us look up to as a father figure, role model, and a signing touch light for Gambia’s emancipation.

Presidential 2012 Inauguration Reaction

Gambia The Way Forward: Setting Today’s Priorities for Tomorrow’s Possibilities

By Sheriff Kora

As the emerging winner of the November presidential elections in The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh as stipulated by the constitution took oath of office today the 19 of January 2012. The 30 minutes speech of the president that ensued his swearing by the Chief Justice was nothing short of one of the most famous political quotes of ex-British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Jammeh has lost the art of communication, but not, alas, the gift of speech. The president’s speech embellished in pomp and flower began by imploring all Gambians to unite under the umbrella of citizenship, to fight poverty, waywardness, underdevelopment, disunity, diseases, stagnancy.

EDITORIAL: THE USELESS JAMMEH INAUGURATION IS TODAY!

Today is the useless “Presidential” inauguration in the Gambia. Another five years of retrogression, gross rights abuses, and economic nightmares for the impoverished West African country.  It came at a time when the Gambian dictator Yaya Jammeh is facing a legitimacy test. The African bloc ECOWAS refuses to recognize Jammeh’s reelection—citing electoral fraud and lack of level playing field that will guarantee a free, fair and credible elections in the Gambia.  ECOWAS boycotted the Gambian polls in the eve of the elections—sparking an outcry among Jammeh’s dictatorial regime; including his own handpicked Electoral Chairman Mustapha Carroyol, who accuses the regional body of trying to incite political unrest in the country.