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Letter to Dodou Sanneh-GRTS Detained Reporter
Wednesday, September 13, 2006 (555 reads)

By Mamadi Ceesay

Doudu Sanneh, God and Gambians knew your arrest and detention was done while on active national duty with objectivity. This is what a patriot should and always expect from a despot whose wish is to make all and sundry a puppet who can blow his trumpet at any given time. This era of Yaya Jammeh is the most difficult era that Gambians have ever witnessed since we assumed the affairs of our own destiny.
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Public TV reporter secretly detained because of his opposition election rally coverage
Wednesday, September 13, 2006 (262 reads)

Reporters Without Borders

Press release

12 September 2006

GAMBIA

Public TV reporter secretly detained because of his opposition election rally coverage

The unlawful arrest and detention of Gambian public television reporter Dodou Sanneh in an undisclosed location for the past six days was forcefully condemned today by Reporters Without Borders as another episode in a systematic crackdown on the press by President Yahya Jammeh's government."This latest arrest just two weeks before presidential elections highlights the despotic character of the incumbent's government," the press freedom organisation said. "Sanneh seems to have been arrested for not being sufficiently servile towards the country's current rulers. If the African Union does not at the very least ask Jammeh to respect all the treaties and charters he has signed, it will never again be able speak out about rigged election anywhere in the continent."

Gainako Newspaper Resumes Operations
Wednesday, September 13, 2006 (662 reads)

Gainako Management

Gainako's Press Release.

It is with great pleasure that we notify the general public that the long awaited Gainako is now operational, with its main headquarters in Minnesota and Wisconsin. For now, Gainako is online based, and we are working on having it print. The website address to the newspaper is www.gainako.com

We thank all our wide readership and good wishers whose motivational factors contributed immensely towards our existence. We are also grateful to all those that gave us space time and again without censorship. We will still be forwarding our pieces to Bantaba ( www.camara.dk), also Gambia post mailing list, and notably we thank Momodou Camara, George Sarr and all others that constantly provided space to our pieces. Not forgetting the editors of Freedom, All Gambian, The Echo, the Point, and the Gambia Journal, whom we interacted greatly in the past, and still continue to do. We are also happily riding comfortably on the camel's back of our webmaster.

We humbly entrust the affairs of Gainako in the Hands of Almighty God, and we are certain that God will always be by our side.

Sincerely,

Gainako Management.

GAMBIA: Murky voter registration mars election run-up
Tuesday, September 12, 2006 (405 reads)

BANJUL, 12 September (IRIN) - Apainyassi is Senegalese. Yet, he says he plans to cast a vote in The Gambia's presidential elections later this month – in fact, he's already been issued with a voter card.Apainyassi, who doesn't want to give his full name, says he feels a greater affinity for his adoptive home and sees no reason why he shouldn't vote in the election."This is where I work, and this is where I live now," he said, pointing at the tiny village of Janackquel, one kilometre within Gambian territory, but just over the border with Senegal's restive southern Casamance region.Across The Gambia, campaign stickers and posters encourage voters to choose the incumbent President Yahya Jammeh of the ruling Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) in polls set for the 22 September. Their campaign slogan: "operation no compromise".Opposition candidates say that the APRC are so determined to ensure their man will win, that they are sending "mobilisers" to southern Gambia to register non-nationals like Apainyassi because they will vote for President Jammeh based on ethnic allegiances.

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Private Eye With Gambiasara-How Certain is the World Bank about Jammeh's victory? Millions of dollars funds released!!!
Tuesday, September 12, 2006 (553 reads)

Is The World Bank and the UN system in the Gambia sponsoring Yaya Jammeh’s re-election campaign and Programmes for the next five years? The World Bank is targeting 88 wards and 600 villages in the six rural Local Government Areas up to 2012. But which village will benefit? Will any village in the LRD be among the lot?

The post election of 2001, the IMF and other bodies came with questions and issues surrounding the Central bank of the Gambia that are yet to be satisfactorily answered. It led to an audit exercise and the witch hunt which saw the Paul commission, operation no compromise which led to the demise of the mighty Baba K. Jobe, Lang Conteh, Abdoulie Kujabi, the humiliation of the shamed APRC National mobiliser and Agriculture Secretary Yankuba Touray, and host of others in Government. These bodies knew exactly what was happening at the time and kept mute until it went out of hand. It is happening again. The UNDP and the World Bank offices in Washington have approved money for the Gambia to a tune of US$12M. See its press release dated August 31^st 2006 to fund a Community-Driven Development Project (CDD).

Jammeh and Charles Taylor

PANORAMA with 'Bulfaaleh'-Clandestine registration ,94,000 Casamance Voters-APRC Free cake.
Tuesday, September 12, 2006 (666 reads)

94,000 Casamance Citizens registered from the Casamance border,to vote for President Jammeh. Why Ndondi Njie was picked up and jailed. Why Gabriel Roberts was sent home.

It has been confirmed by authentic sources this evening that, President Jammeh and his party the APRC have so far registered 94,000 Casamance citizens to vote on September 22nd 2006. This was revealed to 'Bulfaaleh' through a source who sent an email to my account after having at least recorded the voices of 10 people out of these Casamance 'ghost voters'. The last time that is,in 2001 President Jammeh was exposed by the ink found on the thumbs of those who voted for his party from Senegal-Casamance. These 'rebel voters' who are helping maintain a President they call their God father were spotted by Senegalese custom officials at various border posts in 2001. However,the story was left under the rugs for reasons best known to the Senegalese who saw them and Jammeh himself. At the time it caused a lot of noise from politicians like Hamat Bah and Waa Juwara. Infact this is why Waa never wanted to declare the 2001 elections free and fair. Most of those Casamance voters who were identified are still with these voting cards they used in 2001. They will for sure come back and use them to vote for their God father President again. This time around,they have been educated in the most clandestine way not leave ink on their finger tips after voting. Most likely some of them will be given special detergents to clean the ink up on september 22nd 2006. Or they will be urged to cross the border at night when it will not be easy to see the ink marks on the tip of their thumbs. We have to remember that their partners in crime are the rulers in The Gambia.

Jammeh at Basse

President Jammeh's virgin terrain....No combattants are after this paranoid dreamer.
Tuesday, September 12, 2006 (612 reads)

By A Political Analyst....

Yahya A J J Jammeh's Scenery in the provinces. Is this his Silicon Valley?

A useful Picture helping reveal the hidden lies of a paranoid dictator! President Jammeh uses fictitious security threats to help kill,jail or exile people who could be possible political threats to his dictatorship. There is a big difference between a security threat and a political threat. For dictators the two are always seen as the same...

This is one of those areas where President Jammeh has been qualified by geography as a real liar. Here is a Gambian quasi-military ruler in civilian clothing trying to sing endless songs,framing innocent people for tangible reason. His evil songs of series of coup d'etats is no longer new in The Gambia. He says he is facing potential threats in and out of The Gambia? There are specialists and analysts constantly zooming on this paranoid president to justify or debunk what he sees as or constantly calls security threats.

OJ Alleged Bribery Scandal:Pa Samba Jow Clarifies
Monday, September 11, 2006 (535 reads)

By: Pasamba Jow Coach

The contention in your story that OJ was bribed by Jammeh is not only fallacious; it is totally preposterous. I spoke to O.J on Friday September 8^th, in England , where he is undergoing treatment for his sudden sickness that your paper reported. It is thereby very clear that OJ’s sickness is widely known in the Gambia and beyond.I can assure you that O. J is still a member of NADD, and still keeps in touch with them as they tour the country. It however did not come as a surprise to me that people have found the need to spread vicious lies and innuendos about NADD. No amount of lies can hold us back. NADD is on the move. Anybody who knows O.J would know that he would never sell his soul to Jammeh. As for Ganji Touray and former NRP guy Mambajick Njie and all those selfish politicians are the very reason why we are in the predicament we are today. For one to claim that the lack of unity in the opposition justifies joining the murderous APRC regime is just ludicrous.
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Coach Jow

Horomsi:The APRC Bad Tongues ON OJ-OJ Allegedly Bribed To Leave The Gambia?
Monday, September 11, 2006 (490 reads)

Horomsi:President Jammeh buying OJ? Hell No...
OJ'S Departure Raises EyeBrows in the country!
Can OJ Clarify Please!

President Jammeh buying Omar Amadou Jallow (OJ)? President Jammeh threatening OJ? President Jammeh reaching a deal with OJ and Ganji Touray? No, No, No, no! That's not possible. There are many talks in town these days regarding OJ's sudden departure from the country. People are making all kinds of stories. Some alleged that OJ was induced by the state to leave the country, which we termed as utter non sense. Knowing OJ, he will never resorts to such unethical behavior. OJ must be very foolish to act so low by compromising his political career over night because of money. It is fact that his boy boy Ganji Touray was induced to join the APRC, but in the case of OJ, there is no physical evidence to substantiate such wild claims and counter claims. The news of OJ"S defection to the APRC was first bandit by Omar Fye and his group. A week later Ganji cross carpetted and OJ was declared sick. OJ was not seen at the nomination of his colleague Halifa Sallah. Days later, he left the country for UK. Before his departure, he told the Foroyaa Newspaper that he was behind NADD and Gambians should vote for NADD.But talks on the grapevine suggested that the politician might have been either threatened or induced by the Ruling APRC as in the case of his errand boy Ganji Touray.

NADD: Putting the People First
Monday, September 11, 2006 (337 reads)

By Foday Samateh

NADD: Putting the People First

Even the bitterest critics who excruciate themselves in absolute futility to discredit Team Halifa have openly acknowledged, if reluctantly, that the Freedom Philosophers give The Gambia the golden phrase “Sovereignty belongs to the people.” We the admirers and supporters will add for good measure that The Freedom Team gives the nation the democratic maxim: “Power resides in the people.”

[This is the Eighth of Ten Articles in a Series.]