Breaking News

Hon. Speaker M.B Wadda Dies

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In- Chief

Family source from Banjul have revealed to The Gambia Echo only moments ago, of the death of Hon. Mustapha B. Wadda, former Speaker of the Gambian National Assembly from 1997 to 2001. Mr. Wadda peacefully passed away this afternoon at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Banjul.

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Letter Writer rebukes Jammeh regime, takes issue with Echo editorial  

Dear Editor,
 
Since Jammeh came to power, he had openly expressed his desire to work closely with Cuba at any cost including doing so at the detriment of Gambians. Well it is true that Gambia is an independent state  with rights to deal with any country as long as that is in the interest of our nation. But as a security officer in the Gambia, I am aware that many of these NIA men and women including people I know very well are now in Cuba. They include the notorious killer and torturer called Demba Cessay and another disguised murderer called Bakary Jatta.

Afang Ibilis Yahya Jammeh

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The Gambia Bar Association: The Pragmatic, the Dumb and the Vacillators.

By Mathew K. Jallow, Associate Editor

The seminar on legal issues in The Gambia was the rage of the week. Lawyers and legal practitioners met to address serious issues of delivering justice in a nation where injustice has run amok, and the justice system is tainted with endemic corruption, manipulated by a ruthless dictator, and lacking in empathy.

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As Gen Tamba, others languish in Mile II

--Gruesome tales of torture & testicular injuries abound

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief

Highly placed sources close to the Mile II Prisons reveal that Gambia’s erstwhile army chief, General Lang Tombong Tamba and several other security detainees have been subjected to cruel and inhumane treatment while in detention for reasons that are subject of wild speculations. Ever since their arrest two months ago, little has been known about

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Who is Gambia’s First Lady-Nancy Njie or Zeinab Jammeh?

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief

According to our most competent State House operative, Kissy Kissy Mansa, a combustible combination of romantic rumours and innuendoes continue to pervade the corridors of state power in Banjul as Tourism Minister, Nancy Njie (a.k.a Madam Jaljali Borom-Nemali) allegedly readies to marry Gambian President, Alhagi Yahya Abdul Aziz Jamus Junkung Jammeh.

Madam Jaljali, Alhagi Chachai, Zeinab Jammeh

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A desperate mother’s request: saving lives

Written by Jennifer Jones Austin

Hello, my name is Jennifer Jones Austin.  I am a 41 year old mother of two young children.  Only months ago on September 23, I was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia.  Just days before I was walking around feeling fine, taking care of my family, going to the gym daily, and working professionally as an advocate for children and families living in poverty.  I had no medical history of health problems.  Things were good.

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Breaking News President Jammeh sacks Lamin Sabi Sanyang

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief

Unimpeachable sources nestled within the corridors of state power report that errant Gambian diplomat, Lamin Sabi Sanyang has been axed by his so-called brother and mentor, autocratic Gambian leader, Yahya Jammeh. Reveals a senior Foreign Ministry official who begged strict confidentiality, Sanyang’s sacking comes directly from the President at closing

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Commentary

Misuse of our National Honours

By D. A. Jawo

Once upon a time, being the recipient of one of our prestigious National Honours such as the National Officer of the Order of the Republic of The Gambia (ORG) etc, was the wish and pride of every Gambian. However, that unfortunately is no longer the case. Why! The answer simply is that the awards have been so over-used and abused that they seem to have lost all their ecstatic value and prestige and as such, they now seem to be reserved mainly for die-hard supporters of the ruling party as well as sycophants and the regime’s praise singers, and as a result, most decent Gambians no longer want anything to do with them.

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Analysis

Gambia Vision 20-Never: Knowledge deficiency, erroneous policies and wrong priorities

By Mathew K Jallow, Associate Editor

They descended on Kanilai village, in royal resplendence, like invaders of another planet, but Kanilai villagers, no longer stunned by the hype, and numbed to the endless cockiness of it all, only wish the nightmare would end. It was the week Yahya Jammeh had chosen to again draw attention to his boundless power, and stultify members of our traumatized government civil service.

Yahya Jammeh, Gambia's blind Professor

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Echo Editorail

Gambia-A Country of peace, its leader; a violent mad man

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief

Following the embarrassing news leakage that Gambia’s autocratic leader, Yahya Jammeh has agreed to accept Jamaican born fanatical cleric Abdullah Al- Faisal from the Kenyan immigration authorities, the Jammeh government true to its character of pathetic lies and fabrications, has gone on a media blitz condemning segments of the international media for attempts to tarnish its reputation.

Abdullah Al-Faisal and brother Abdul Aziz Jammeh

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Echo letter writer draws parallels between Gambia and Sri Lanka

Barely three hours after our editorial captioned “Yahya Jammeh: A President, liar or terrorist”, a withering indictment of the Jammeh regime, had an erudite Professor of  Law at a prestigious Law school in Maryland, sent us the letter below. We have read the article as instructed and found it very educative and hope that our readership too will find it so. However, the erudite professor wishes to remain anonymous and hopefully one day, he too will write us an editorial on human rights and the rule of law in The Gambia.

Yahya Jammeh, A self-ordained Professor with no College education

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Echo Editorial

Yahya Jammeh- A President, liar or terrorist?

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief

Barely a week after the high profile sacking of Mr. Abdoulie Sallah as Secretary General and Head of the Gambian Civil Service, the tantalizing details are now unfolding and if any persons were in doubt as to the veracity of that incident, it should now be crystal that Mr. Sallah was axed following a very poisoned atmosphere at The Gambia’s oval office. The bellicose statement from Gambian leader, Yahya Jammeh published verbatim in Tuesday's Daily Observer newspaper has irksome echoes of the

Gambia's ugliest man and terrorist leader, Yahya Jammeh(a.k.a Afang Ibilis)

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Letter writer alleges, Njogou Bah’s PhD. is bogus

Ever since The Gambia Echo broke news of Njogu Bah’s high profile appointment as The Gambia’s new Secretary General and Head of the Civil Service, last Friday, our mail bag has been saturated with a preponderance of curious emails questioning the legitimacy of his alleged qualifications. Bah, a very polite and easy-going fellow claims to have received a doctoral degree in an unknown American University, a claim that continues  to raise eyebrows and in tandem with journalistic ethics, The Gambia Echo can no

Njogou Bah, Sect. Gen. & Head of the Civil Service, Gambia

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Breaking News

The Gambia Echo vindicated!!! Abdoulie Sallah sacked, Njogu Bah is Gambia’s new Sec. Gen.

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief

Today, The Gambia Echo has been vindicated in its controversial lead story that Gambia’s Secretary General and Head of the Civil Service, Abdoulie Momodou Sallah has been sacked. We can now confirm with our most trusted, most competent and always humble State House operative, Kissy Kissy Mansa that Mr. Sallah has sacked with immediate effect.

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Born Rebel; Born Gainako: The Life, Times and Journeys of an African Radical.

An Autobiography

By Mathew K Jallow, Author**

I am the child of a random encounter. I am the product of a chance meeting, between a young attractive Tamaru drummer, and a beautiful divorcee, who carried herself with uncommon grace and stealth. But, I did not know it yet. Not until I became a teenager beginning to make sense of the world around me. In the quite life of a villager deep in the hinterland of The Gambia, I did not seek to find questions with which to turn the world on its head. The

Contact Mathew: editormj@thegambiaecho.com

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Breaking News Jammeh Gov’t. Accepts alleged terror deportee  

“Kenya 'deports cleric to Gambia'”

“Kenya has deported to The Gambia a Jamaican-born Muslim cleric notorious for preaching racial hatred, Kenya's immigration minister says. Abdullah al-Faisal was arrested last week and there have been conflicting reports about his whereabouts. "We had problems deporting him because many countries, including the US, declined to have him even on transit," the minister, Otieno Kajwang, said.

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Corrigendum

Abdoulie Sallah neither sacked nor arrested

Contrary to our report alleging that Mr. Abdoulie Sallah, Secretary General Office of the Gambian President, was sacked and arrested, the report was inaccurate. Therefore, in tandem with journalistic ethics and decency, The Gambia Echo apologizes to Mr. Sallah for the pain this may have caused him and his family.

Abdoulie Sallah, Sec. Gen. allegedly sacked, detained

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Breaking News President Jammeh sacks Sect. Gen. Abdoulie Sallah, sends him to Mile II??

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief

Highly placed sources have informed The Gambia Echo that Secretary General, Office of the Gambian president, Mr. Abdoulie Sallah, has been allegedly sacked and reportedly sent to Mile II Prisons. Sallah, a career civil servant was allegedly sacked last night and then reportedly arrested this morning by agents of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA).

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Deyda's last Supper

--Reflections on last moments of slain Gambian journalist

By Yusupha Cham

It is not without good reason that Jesus’ “Last Supper” with his disciples has been made the subject of so many artistic projects over the centuries; here, at one of the last gatherings attended by all, Jesus delivered instructions not on how to enjoy the meal, but how to remember him once he is gone.

The Point Staff with US ambassador, Stafford in Center

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In Defense of Democracy

By Edward Bissau Mendy, Esq.

“New Year Message to The Gambia Armed Forces” by Yusupha Cham published by your online newspaper, www.thegambiaecho.com on January 2, 2010, suggests a dangerous and undesirable preposition—the removable of the president of The Gambia, President Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh, by the members of the country’s armed forces.

 The AK-47 Vs. Constitutional Democracy

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Commentary

A Muslim speaks out against Terrorism

By Ousman A. Bah, Castro Valley, CA

I am writing these thoughts as a devout Muslim, born in The Gambia, West Africa, a naturalized American citizen and a student of the Koran for many years. One of most disturbing aspects of the recent terrorist attempt to destroy the Northwest Airlines flight on December 25, 2009, is not only the perverted understanding of our Muslim faith that the act represents, but also the unexplainable silence of

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Breaking News

Lamin Sabi Sanyang transferred to Brussels as Counsellor

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief

Unimpeachable sources nestled within the corridors of state power have revealed to The Gambia Echo, that errant Gambian diplomat, Lamin Sabi Sanyang, has been moved to the Gambian Mission in the Belgian capital of Brussels. Reveals Njie Khakatarr, “a memo from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been dispatched to Lamin Sabi Sanyang directing him to report to our Mission in Brussels, Belgium, with immediate effect and if he has not received it yet, rest assured he should get it by Monday.”

Lamin Sanyang and Deleware Beauty Queen, Lauren Elizabeth Parkes

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Commentary

New Year Message to the Gambia armed forces

By Yusupha Cham

The year is slowly but surely edging to an end. With it so many failed hopes, barely realized hopes and unaccomplished dreams fade way. There is no such country where this situation is so realistic than it is in The Gambia, all because of a failed and devious political system being shoved into the throat of the masses.

Afang Ibilis viciously looks on

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ANALYSIS

Helping to build a functional Gambian Democracy

By Karamba Touray

In the run up to the 2006 Presidential elections, 670,336 Gambians were registered to vote according to figures from the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC).Of that number, 392,685 voted for the three contenders and the President was re-elected with 264,404 representing about a third of the registered voters. The Parliamentary and local government elections that followed registered even steeper declines in votes cast.

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Breaking News

Deputy Perm Sect., Ousman Sowe, sacked, arrested, detained

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief

Unimpeachable sources at the President’s office reveal that, Mr. Ousman Sowe, Deputy Permanent Secretary, office of the President, has been sacked and subsequently arrested by agents of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA). According to a highly placed source, Ousman Sowe (a.k.a. Degree) was sacked on Wednesday, December 30, 2009 following allegations of a missing or delayed file containing highly confidential information on national security matters.

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New Year Message from United Democratic Party Leader, Ousainou Darboe

2010 New Year message of Ousainu Darboe, Secretary General and Party Leader of the United Democratic Party (UDP)
 
My Gambian compatriots and friends living in The Gambia; Let me first of all extend to all of you, my greetings and that of the United Democratic Party. Just a few days ago, we celebrated together the auspicious feasts of Christmas and Tamharet.

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