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Gambian Ambassador To The UN Fired, Rehired As Minister-Lobbyist Aycoth Calls For Visa sanctions Against Gambia Gov't!
Saturday, February 10, 2007 (1498 reads)

By A Senior Staff Writer

A former lobbyist to the Gambian Government John Aycoth, is reacting to the firing of the Gambian Ambassador to the United Nations Chrispin Grey-Johnson who had his services terminated by the Jammeh administration. "I'm happy that Johnson is fired. The UN will be a far better organization without the likes of Chrispin Grey-Johnson, who have proven to be a liar in a US Federal court. He is not qualified to represent any country at the UN. He lied in his deposition and my lawyer had effectively proven this."said Mr.Aycoth who dragged the Gambian government to court for breach of contract and loss of earnings. Aycoth who is the President of the Washington based lobby firm called the EAW Group also wants the US government to deny visas to what he calls corrupt Gambian officials like Johson who he accused of committing perjury at a Federal court."I don't think that the US government will ever allow him back to the US after we proved that he committed perjury before a US Federal Court. I will make sure that he will never receive a visa in the future to the US based on the White House protocol on denying visas to corrupt regimes." Said the American Aycoth.

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Breaking News:Minnesota's Gambian Queen!
Saturday, February 10, 2007 (1542 reads)

Source: Blackstarnews.com

Where She’s From: Amie Dibba, a Libra, was born in Abilene, Texas and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. “The most important things that I have learned from my parents have been to know that I can accomplish anything that I put my mind to, that family is your backbone and to cherish and treat others the way that I truly want to be treated,” she tells The Black Star News. “My relatives and community have taught be the importance of family and friends, the importance of giving back to your community and how much a smile can make someone's day.” She attended Ascension school, graduated from Armstrong high school and is currently attending the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and graduates in December 2007. “I began singing at the age of six in the school choir,” she notes. She was also on the Dean's List her first year of college while I was in the post-secondary program in high school.

Breaking News:No One Is Above The Law-Speaker Jahumpa Ceesay Tells MPS-As She Calls On Law Makers To Live by Example...
Friday, February 09, 2007 (1333 reads)

"It is our collective resolve and beliefs that we will only have the moral authority to scrutinize and perform oversight over public life, public service and public officers, if we ourselves are to live by good examples.Thus, gone are the days of impunity for misconduct of Honourable Members, but equally gone are the days of humiliation and disrespect for Honourable Members. We shall set the standards for ourselves and we shall be fully self-regulatory. As the saying goes, we must first of all respect ourselves and others as well if we expect other people to respect us. There shall be no sacred cow and no body is above the law. The dignity, integrity and reputation of the Parliament must be upheld first by its members, if we expect others to respect us."Said Fatou Jahumpa Ceesay, Gambia's new Speaker. She was speaking during the swearing-in-ceremony of Gambia's parliamentarians. FJC who was also sworn in vows to live up to expectations. Below is the full text of her speech. Please read on...

Poem:Here is the tree
Friday, February 09, 2007 (693 reads)

Author: Essa Bokarr SEY.
Poem:Here is the tree!

Here is the tree,the tree,the tree, the tree!

No no no! do not chop the tree.

This tree has cheese in its stem.

Hey chopper do not chop this tree.

Can't you see the tree in this field?

Can't you pose your feet in this field called freedom?

Oh...Oh! I can see the tree!

Yes! I can see the tree!

Chase'em apes,fleas and mosquitoes from the tree.

Hey apes and team please flee!

We want you to flee because you are a flea.

How long are you going to suck our blood?

How many pints so far?

Aaaah! this is painful because the tree is weeping.

These are tears not fluid!

A Self Proclaimed Nigerian Medical Worker Takes Issue With Jammeh over Claims Of Aids Cure!
Thursday, February 08, 2007 (2008 reads)

MRC'S Dr.Corra

By Paul Bellman

Dear Editor,

Please publish this for the public interest so people can know that the Gambia has capable and brilliant well trained scientists. In reaction to the fake HIV/AIDS results of patients who were treated by the President of the country, I must say how low can one stop to deceive so many people without regards to their feelings.I am a Nigerian but I know quite a few brilliant Gambian Scientists whom I have worked with in both the Gambia at the MRC and in Britain. A few of them that come to mind are Dr. Tumani Corrah, Dr. Assan Jaye, Dr. Abdoulie Jack, Dr. Sana Ceesay; I could go on and on. Some of these guys have trained some of the World's best Universities in America and in the UK, including the renowned Cambridge University. Some of these guys have worked for the MRC for over a decade as Senior Scientist in Medical Research and could have been great assets to the country in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

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Breaking News:CPJ Issues Open Letter To Jammeh Over Reporter Chief Manneh's whereabouts!
Thursday, February 08, 2007 (789 reads)

"We are deeply concerned about the well-being of our colleague “Chief” Ebrima B. Manneh of the Daily Observer, who has not been seen or heard from since his arrest seven months ago, according to sources in the media and human rights organizations.Manneh, the Daily Observer’s State House correspondent, was arrested by plainclothes security agents at the paper’s offices in the capital, Banjul, on July 7, 2006, according to sources who asked not to be identified for fear of retribution. His whereabouts, the reason for his detention, his legal status, and his health have not been disclosed. Authorities deny detaining Manneh, although CPJ sources say police are holding him incommunicado outside Banjul."the CPJ'S open letter to President Jammeh.

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Editorial:Jammeh's Faked Aids Cure That Never Was! Is Jammeh Mad?
Wednesday, February 07, 2007 (1620 reads)

EDITORIAL

Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh needs urgent medical attention. Our country is watching Jammeh, who is on the verge of throwing his pants due to madness. Jammeh is far from being stable. He is mad for real. The President is wasting his precious time on HIV cure, an area he had no clue or knowledge whatsoever. Jammeh is nothing but a faked HIV doctor.

The drugs he is supplying to the country's HIV/Aids patients are unfit for human consumption, not to talk of curing a dreadful pandemic like aids. His actions exposed his ignorance and lack of maturity as a leader. His guriots are using President Mbake of South Africa as an example to justify Jammeh's action. Mbake never said he had cure for aids. He clarified on the air after he was linked to questioning the existence of HIV.In the case of Jammeh, is a different story all together. Jammeh is a seasoned liar who should be exposed to lie detector test. He has no cure for aids. He is instead contributing to the spread of HIV in the Gambia. The time has come for our people to speak against Jammeh's madness.

When a country is presided over by a mad President, one should expect such idle rantings. An acclaimed Medical worker told us that Jammeh's actions manifest a sign of madness or mental retardation. In short, it is called "GRANDIOSE DELUSION." A research on mental health problems revealed that people with "Grandiose Delusion" problems manifest such signs before going into full blown madness.

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Breaking News:New Twist On President Jammeh's Aids Cure!Has the Gov't Forged This Letter from Senegal????
Tuesday, February 06, 2007 (1926 reads)

Today, we are publishing pictures featuring Gambian President Yahya Jammeh administering his new found HIV/Aids drugs.The President claimed he invented the "the said drugs" made locally.

The people drinking these drugs are people diagonised with HIV, the virus that causes aids. The Gambian President said he had been given the mandate to cure HIV, but would not say who gavehim such a mandate.

The Health Ministry claimed that the patients cured by the President were tested by Dakar based Medical Dotor. Read this statement issued by the Ministry of Health regarding the outcome of the said test:

The Department of State for Health and Social Welfare is hereby updating the general public on the progress made by His Excellency's Herbal treatment to nine patients with HIV infection.

As you have previously been informed, the clinical conditions of the Patients have improved significantly.

The results of the Viral Loads received yesterday are as follows:

- Five people have undetectable Viral Load

- One patient has moderate Viral Load

- Three people have high Viral Load

The results so far are very promising.

In another development, out of the 135 people treated for Asthma, 91 people have called in to report successful recovery.

The Department of State for Health under the leadership of Dr. Tamsir Mbowe takes this opportunity to renew its professional and moral support to His Excellency's efforts to uplift the Health status of Gambians afflicted with such diseases.

The Department of State also wishes to congratulate His Excellency the present for remarkable success achieved so far in his herbal treatment of patients with HIV infection and Asthma.

In another development, this paper is pleased to publish the letter issued by the Senegalese doctor who conducted the HIV test on the patients treated by Jammeh. Please read on:

Breaking News:The Big Interview!!! DA Jawo Speaks...Jammeh aids cure provokes wild controversy!
Tuesday, February 06, 2007 (1554 reads)

"What is even more disturbing in the whole saga is the negative role being openly played by the health professionals, particularly Dr. Mbowe as the health minister, as they are supposed to be guided by their professional ethics rather than allow themselves to be cajoled by political considerations. We would have understood the position taken by Dr. Mbowe if he had been just any other politician, but as a health professional himself, everyone expected him to have been bold enough to tell President Jammeh the truth that he was venturing into an area he has no business in. At least he and the other health professionals at the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital as well as those at the National AIDS Secretariat should have mustered the courage to tell President Jammeh the truth and be ready to face the consequences."said a leading Gambian journalist, cum political commentator Demba Ali Jawo in an exlusive interview with the Freedom Newspaper. Mr.Jawo who is the former President of the Gambia Press Union commented on a wide raneg of issues in this master piece interview.The murder of jorunalist Deyda Hydara, the opposition's failure to come together, the state of press freedom in the Gambia among host of other topical issues. Below is full text of the interview Freedom's Managing Editor Pa Nderry M'Bai had with Mr.Jawo. Please read on.
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Freedom Newspaper: Recently, President Yahya Jammeh provoked a heated controversy within and outside the country, with his surprising news that he had a cure for HIV/AIDS. Mr. Jammeh did not stop at that. He also announces that he had been given "the mandate to cure AIDS and Asthma. What do you make of Jammeh's statement?

DA Jawo: It indeed came not only as a surprises to me and I am sure most other Gambians, but also as a big embarrassment to hear President Jammeh claim to have the “mandate” to cure HIV/AIDS and Asthma through the use of herbal concoctions and incantations from the Holy Quran. It indeed sounds like he got the “mandate” from a spiritual deity, which smacks of superstition.

While no doubt The Gambia and indeed all Gambians would be very proud if it is indeed proven that our head of state has got the magical formula to cure this dreaded global epidemic which has eluded even the greatest of all scientists, but his actions seem to be risking an embarrassment of global proportions for himself and this country.

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Breaking News:Freedom Clocks One Year! California-based nonprofit organization praise Editors...
Friday, February 02, 2007 (504 reads)

By Ted Lipien

FreeMediaOnline.org Free Media Online, San Francisco, CA, February 2, 2007 -- Several days ago, an independent journalist from Gambia had asked me to write about journalism and dictatorship in Africa. An Internet newspaper he edits while living in exile in the United States is celebrating its first anniversary. He wanted to start a discussion about strategies for bringing democracy to Gambia and other African nations still ruled by dictators.I know something about journalism and dictatorship having spent 20 years during the Cold War opposing communist rule in Poland through the medium of radio. From 1973 until 1993, I was a journalist at the Voice of America (VOA) Polish Service. In the 1980s, the Solidarity trade union, the Catholic Church and various human rights organizations in Poland intensified their nonviolent struggle for democracy. In their efforts to bring information about their activities to the general public, they relied heavily on independent journalists and underground publishing and media in Poland and international broadcasters in the West. After unsuccessful attempts to crush Solidarity and subsequent negotiations with the pro-democratic opposition, the communist regime in Poland was replaced by a democratically-elected government in 1989. In 2006 I left VOA and I am now running a California-based nonprofit organization, FreeMediaOnline.org, which supports independent journalism worldwide.