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Michael Scales Reacts to Modou Sisay's letter!!
Monday, August 20, 2007 (331 reads)

By Michael Scales UK.

Dear Mr.Editor,

Thank you for forwarding the e/mail from Mr .Moudou Sisay, dated 19th August 2007.I am unsure as to wether Mr Sisay,curretly resides within the U.K. But no matter.My initial response would be to agree with almost ALL that he writes and therefore there is little issue between us.However as this Gentleman has taken the time to highlight his opinion and concern, i would be less than generous not to explain my own views in response by Paragraph.

Mr MICHAEL SCALE'S SCANDALOUS DOUBLE STANDARD-Modou Sisay writes!!
Monday, August 20, 2007 (362 reads)

By Modou Sisay, UK

Dear Mr Editor,

Mr Michael Scales remarks about the Gambia Government I know were made in an informal and personal capacity or in the name of civil liberty but some specific remarks were inappropriate and ran the risk of calling into question Michael's own impertiality and, by extention that of your organisation. I would like to expose Mr Scale's doubl standard with regards to what he is not saying or performing.

Breaking News:Gambian poet Tijan Sallah publishes new book!!
Monday, August 20, 2007 (204 reads)

Colleagues, Friends,

For those of you who may or may not have followed up my past books of poetry, my new book of selected poetry, which compiles selections from my three past books of published poetry, one unpublished book, and several unpublished new poems, may very well be my most important books of poetry to date and a book
worth having. It is a stocktaking of my poetic works at mid-life.

Attached is the flyer announcing the new release of the book and the book order form. You will have to click "zoom" to see the flyer well. The book which has been several years in the making has been praised by South African poet Dennis Brutus, the American critic Charles Larson, and the late pulitzer prize winning African American poet and US Poet Laureate, Gwendolyn Brooks. You will not be
disappointed.

Tijan
See attached file: DreamKingdom_flier.pdf)

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Breaking News:Gambia:Police officer and others raped Married woman!car number BJL 0841A was used to abduct Fatou Jeng!
Sunday, August 19, 2007 (1444 reads)

Armed Police Man and others Raped Fatou Jeng- Attackers left seven men injured!!

Fatou Jeng's Husband Devastated by the police's inaction to arrest the rapists!!

Identity request becomes rape case on OJ Street

"Three unidentified men over the weekend packed a car number BJL 0841A on O.J. Street, very close to the Trust Bank on the junction going to Serrekunda, parked in wait for girls without identities. In the past, they came with a different car and whisked away some girls and nothing was heard about their being raped or detained. When a man and his wife (Fatou Jeng) crossed the road, the said armed men called the lady and demanded her identity. The husband went home just across the road to bring his wife's Identity Card. On his return, the three men had already put the lady in their car. Neighbours came out and intervened. The attackers then fought and wounded seven men and three women and entered the vehicle and ran in haste towards Banjul."

By Correspondent Famara Jammeh, Banjul.
Paid for and Commissioned by the Freedom Newspaper.

Three men, one identified as a police man apparently stood on OJ Street near the Trust Bank at Serrekunda, asking for identity cards about 12.15 am over the weekend whisking away a lady, 25 years old and raped her around Ice Man, the Freedom Newspaper can authoritatively report. Three unidentified men over the weekend packed a car number BJL 0841A on O.J. Street, very close to the Trust Bank on the junction going to Serrekunda, parked in wait for girls without identities. In the past, they came with a different car and whisked away some girls and nothing was heard about their being raped or detained.

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Breaking News:Pit Latrines offend Ebo Town residents
Sunday, August 19, 2007 (337 reads)

By Correspondent Famara Jammeh, Banjul.
Paid for and Commissioned by the Freedom
Newspaper.

Residents of Ebo Town are offended by their pit latrines most of which are full and found drained by rain during flooding in their area floating in their vincinity fearing cholera.Pit Latrines dug very close to dwelling houses and drinking water wells has sent worrying signals when the area flooded last week leaving inhabitants in a worrying situation.

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Islam and FGM-Suntou Touray writes from UK
Sunday, August 19, 2007 (550 reads)

By Suntou Touray U.K

Mr editor allow me space in your widely read news paper to support the article authored by brother Drammeh on the subject of FGM. Mr Drammeh was right in his claims that FGM or female circumcision is not encoded in Islamic traditions.

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The Imam Fatty FGM controversy!!
Sunday, August 19, 2007 (670 reads)

By Ibarahim Drammeh, Mary Land.

Thank you very much my dear muslim brother. Bofore I go any furthur, I will let you know that I have no bad feeling for Imam Fatty. I studied Islamic Law just like him and I also studied comparative studies of religions. I am sorry that you are defending someone blindly just because you know him. Any way Suntu Touray has already said everything. I dont have to go much further with you because you sound like you know nothing about the holy Quran and Hadith.

The Silence of the Lambs....
Friday, August 17, 2007 (981 reads)

By Michael Scales, UK.

Mr.Editor,

A strange silence has desended upon my beloved Gambia....People are gathering in small groups sitting together, but not speaking,as if in shock and deep despair.I must admit i feel the same emotions, I am almost speechless,which is not a condition an englishman takes well.Perhaps after living and breathing Africans for so many years , I have become an African.I feel despair and hopelessness accompanied by isolation and aloneness.I have often encountered a spirit of forgiveness, within the African ,which is more noble and honerable than any other estate of mankind that ive known.

Another wound in Africa's heart...Ghana see my tears!
Friday, August 17, 2007 (440 reads)

Authored Essa Bokarr SEY....

Africa! once again here comes sorrow.

Dear fallen heroes!

My salutations to you Nkrumah!

To you Lumumba!

To you and you and you!

To no one else other than the living,rising or fallen heroes of the brown plains of a weeping giant!

Gambian Dies in New York!! Funds needed to fly the late Landing Dumbuya to Gambia
Friday, August 17, 2007 (936 reads)

OBITUARY

The Gambian Youths Organization in New York sadly announced the sudden death of one of our own.Mr Landing Dumbuya Passed away at the Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center from a sudden illness. He was born in Kerewan Dumbokoto behind Bansang in the Central River Division .Mr. Dumbuya who is in his late thirties spent most of his adult life in Dippa Kunda,Serekunda until his immigration to the United States in Late 2002.