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POEM:-BAOBAB IN THE WILDERNESS OF TIME.
Friday, July 20, 2007 (276 reads)

Author Essa Bokarr Sey

Baobab, my baobab!

Baobab, please remember me!

I am the son of a villager.

The son of culture and religion.

The little child who drank from the calabashes of traditional values.

POEM:Hostile Nostalgia
Friday, July 20, 2007 (249 reads)

Author Essa Bokarr Sey

Home I want to see you again!

I want to see you when you are not sobbing in despair.

I want to hold you tight when flames have been buried under a huge heap of ashes.

I want to behold the beauty in you when killer-blames are lame.

I do miss the essence in your standards and values.

I do not miss the effervescence within your cultural values.

POEM:Hostile Nostalgia
Friday, July 20, 2007 (59 reads)

Author Essa Bokarr Sey

Home I want to see you again!

I want to see you when you are not sobbing in despair.

I want to hold you tight when flames have been buried under a huge heap of ashes.

I want to behold the beauty in you when killer-blames are lame.

I do miss the essence in your standards and values.

I do not miss the effervescence within your cultural values.

I want to see home when thought can fly like white pigeons of hope.

I do not want to see home when thought is sniffing dirt like a helpless pig.

Jammeh to cancel pending Taiwan visit for security reasons-Lamarana Jallow reveals-
Thursday, July 19, 2007 (1111 reads)

By Lamarana Jallow son of The Gambia.
Dear Editors,

I have been busy coordinating the July 22ND anniversary rehearsals. Our men are being trained on foot drill, gun salute and VIP escort. I have few important security issues to share with Gambians today. President Jammeh is at this hour, contemplating visiting Taiwan. He is not convinced about his return. He is likely to cancel the said visit for security reasons, as he did to other invitations accorded to him. During a rare chat with him, Jammeh confided to me in private about the said visit.

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THE ABSENT CONSCIENCE OF AN AFRICAN NATION.-Michael Scales writes
Thursday, July 19, 2007 (300 reads)

By Michael Scales, UK

THE ABSENT CONSCIENCE OF AN AFRICAN NATION.

What visits you in your nightmare,can never serve the conscious mind ,unless to create the illusion of Hell on Earth.When that nightmare or illusion becomes the present estate of Mankind.It is the children who bare the cross for there lifetime and a generation to come.

Open Letter to the Opposition Parties- Bourama Jammeh writes
Thursday, July 19, 2007 (688 reads)

July 17, 2007

Gambia People's Democratic Party and Hendry Gomez

National Alliance for Democracy and Development and Halifa Sallah

National Democratic Action Movement and Lamin Waa Juwara

National Reconciliation Party and Hamat Bah

People's Democratic Organization for Independence and Socialism and Sedia Jatta

United Democratic Party and Ousainou Darbo

Dear Colleagues

State of Opposition Political Parties – Matching-Forward Together

I'm one Gambian concerned over the unchecked unlimited excesses of the APRC government. I'm not an authority in Gambian Party Politics but I have followed its developments since 1977 when National Convention Party (NCP) first came out.

The Resurrection of democracy in The Gambia-Commentary!
Thursday, July 19, 2007 (346 reads)

THE RESURRECTION OF DEMOCRACY IN THE GAMBIA AS A SECOND REPUBLIC BUT ARE THERE NEW HOPES FOR THE CITIZENS?

By Jadama Sadibu. (Stockholm Sweden)

The signs of the death of democracy in the Gambia in my opinion are caused by total fragmentation. The Gambia I observe is divided into absolute fragments. Gambian politicians should realise that the type of democracy that they are crying for requires wholeness, a body politic participating in making the decisions that affect everyone.

Breaking News:75 percent of poll voters say "Yahya Jammeh is a curse for The Gambia."
Thursday, July 19, 2007 (692 reads)

75 percent of poll voters say "Yahya Jammeh is a curse for The Gambia."

....25 percent disagree!!

Jammeh ask to resign in the interest of peace and good governance!!!

As plans are in high gears for the celebrations of the failed so called military revolution, which toppled the 30 year PPP rule, the Freedom Newspaper today releases preliminary poll results on the theme “Is Yahya Jammeh a “curse for the Gambia.” Interestingly, 75 percent of the voters who took part on the polls, coordinated by our sister blog www. freedomnewspapercom.blogspot.com said Yahya Jammeh is indeed a curse for the tiny impoverished nation of the Gambia, whilst 25 percent of the voters maintained that Jammeh was not a curse for the country.

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Breaking News:Gambia:NO Call, No Show Up, At ECOWAS Court!!!
Wednesday, July 18, 2007 (840 reads)

Gambia:NO Call, No Show Up, At ECOWAS Court!!!

Gambian Government Treats Regional Court with "utter contempt."

Lawyer Felana's Request to visit Banjul in search for missing journalist declined!!

The Gambian Government has openly defied a court summons, requesting them to show up at a Abuja court to defend allegations of "infringing the rights and liberties" of the missing Gambian journalist Chief Ebrima Manneh. The Gambian Ambassador to Nigeria, was served with the said summons, but to the surprise of the Regional Court and observers, the regime which is reputed to be worse human rights violators in Africa, was conspicuously absent in court.

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Breaking News:Yahya Jammeh Exposed- Tales of murder, torture, disappearances- Ghana book reveals!
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 (1402 reads)

Yahya Jammeh send to the Cleaners again!!!

Tales of torture, murder, disappearances, arrest- Media Foundation reported in a new book

Journalists forced into exile catalogued in this masterpiece book

Atrocities committed by the Jammeh government over the years has been catalogued in a book published by the Ghana based Media Foundation For West Africa. The book exposed tales of gross human rights violations, ranging from murder, alleged extra judicial killings, torture, disappearances, arrest and persecution of perceived political opponents. The masterpiece book also gave a list of Gambian journalists forced into exile by the Jammeh dictatorship. Below is summary of the book. Please read on…

THE GAMBIA - ATTACKS ON THE PRESS 1994 - 2006
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APPENDIX II
List of journalists forced into exile
No. Names Country of residence
1 Omar Bah Ghana
2 Sarjo Bayang UK
3 Sheriff Bojang Jr Senegal
4 Seedy Ceesay UK
5 Lamin N.B. Daffeh UK
6 Ida Jagne Senegal
7 Alagi Yorro Jallow USA
8 Baba Galleh Jallow USA
9 Cherno Baba Jallow USA
10 Mathew K. Jallow USA
11 Sulayman Makalo Ghana
12 Pa Nderry M'bai USA
13 Alagie Mbye UK
14 Musa Saidykhan Senegal
15 Ebrima Sankareh USA
16 Ebrima Sillah Senegal
17 Alieu Badara Sowe UK
18 Bunja Touray UK
19 Momodou Musa Touray UK
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