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Jammeh regime killed Sgt. Ello Jallow!

Zeineb threatens suicide amid: gruesome tales of torture, scandalous sexual allegations with First Lady, murder scene injuries among Presidential Guards…

By EBRIMA G. SANKAREH, Editor-in-Chief

Ever since news broke of the lamentable tale of Sergeant Ello Jallow’s mysterious fatality in a doctored automobile accident at a culvert by Sting Corner in the wee hours of Thursday January 6, 2011, The Gambia Echo continues to be inundated with a barrage of irksome reports, which provide a

Ello's Suzuki Vitera Plate No.WD3188 A 

Sgt. Jallow, moments before he returned to Banjul

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Access to Justice, adherence to Rule of Law, provide stable and just society- Lawyer E. M. Joof

Gambian human rights lawyer and Project Manager of UN’s Rule of Law Centre in Juba, Sudan, Emmanuel Daniel Joof, told a cross section of Gambian writers, academics and civil society representatives that for any society to progress, maintain stability and remain just to its people, that society has to provide access to justice as well as adhere to the principles of the Rule of Law, a noble concept that has become worthless in most of Africa due to abuse and misapplication even by the worst tyrants.

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OPINION

Gambia’s Criminal Justice System

BAIL IS A RIGHT CIRCUMSCRIBED BY REASONABLE AND JUSTIFIABLE CONDITIONS  

BY HALIFA SALLAH, Serekunda, The Gambia

Compatriots, Pan Africanists and Internationalists, developments of far reaching historical experience are taking place in our homeland. It is therefore necessary for PDOIS which seeks to be a credible alternative to the APRC to draw a clear line of demarcation between the systems of government advocated by the two political forces.

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Analysis

Special Int’l Development

Haiti in the Cultural Mirror of Africa

By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong

The one year anniversary of the 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti and left over 250,000 dead, a quarter of its civil servants killed and most of its infrastructure destroyed have brought into the forefront why is that 207 years of independence from France colonial rule Haiti is in

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Jamaican reader reacts to Professor Saine’s Echo editorial

Dear Editor,

Am a Jamaican, married to a Gambian and wish to thank Professor Saine for his honest and moving piece on my country- JAMIACA. The Jamaica he describes is indeed

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Opinion

Nigeria’s Promise, Africa’s Hope

By CHINUA ACHEBE (author of Things Fall Apart)

AFRICA has endured a tortured history of political instability and religious, racial and ethnic strife. In order to understand this bewildering, beautiful continent — and to grasp the complexity that is my home country, Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation — I think it is absolutely important that we examine the story of African people.

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Commentry

Atta Mills’ stupid Pan-African calculus

By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong

Whatever others may make of him, John Atta Mills continues to see himself in the mirror of Pan-Africanism, a philosophy that seeks cultural, political and economical unity of Africa. From his teaching years at the University of Ghana to his political and social life, Mills is actuated by a lofty Pan-Africanism vision.

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Guest Editorial

Jamaica: Not as seen on Western News Media

** By Professor Abdoulaye Saine, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

I write this Op-ed as an African and an Africanist scholar for over two decades with considerable interest in political and economic developments in Africa, as well as countries in the Caribbean, including Cuba and Jamaica.

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Breaking News

Gambia’s demented, violent dictator, Yahya Jammeh, closes private radio

State security agents yesterday ransacked Teranga FM, a community radio station located outside the capital, and ordered its closure, Reporters Without Borders has learned from various sources.

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Viewpoint

Gambia vs. Senegal

Dear Mr. Editor,

With your kind permission, I would like to articulate my thoughts over the present crisis between The Gambia and Senegal. I have been reading different articles, and heard different opinions on this matter especially, on various online news media your channel, in particular. I was also able to read the address of President Jammeh of The Gambia.

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Commentary

UK writer rebukes Gambian Bar over shameful silence on worsening human rights

By Sarjo Bayang, UK

London, UK--Of all professional organizations within The Gambia, the legal fraternity remains most disappointing to our population. What is probably most amazing about this entity is that, after knowing all the legal realities of armed seizure of power, The Gambia Bar association chooses to close its eyes to the truth and blatantly refuses to challenge the illegal conduct of The Gambia National Army in seizing power by force and then holding the whole nation hostage for almost 20 years now.

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Bombshell

Captain Sabally unravels Jammeh- MFDC nexus Part II

By Captain Saba B. Sabally (strategist & architect of the July 22 coup)

And (3) ``As far back as 2003, one Member of this group i.e. Jakayi group who was very notorious in Cassamance for his outrageous brutality against civilians, by the name Borry Kambeela; ….was arrested in The Gambia and handed over to Abdoulaye Wade's Government….He was released without trial by President Abdoulaye Wade and sent back to Cassamance, a free man!...."

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Opinion

For The Gambia Our Homeland

By Foday Samateh, New York

I am no Jonathan Swift with a Modest Proposal for my nation’s oppressor. However, at the alarming rate perplexing events unfold; lights will go out on hope quite soon. Some disillusioned Gambian will have to face the disconsolate reality, pay homage to that renowned writer’s enduring supreme irony and, with all its resonating sarcasm, suggest to the petty dictator the most callous ways of hacking and dismembering the nation.

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Ex-Deputy military leader in Jammeh’s junta, Capt.Sana B. Sabally, says Jammeh trains MFDC rebels, provides them Gambian passports, IDs, Birth Certificates, military paraphernalia etc, etc. (Part:1)

In a lengthy commentary discussing the dire circumstances of Gambians in exile and what we could do to flush Jammeh out of office, former Vice Chairman of the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council (AFPRC) that swept away the constitutionally elected government of Sir Dawda K. Jawara, Captain Sana B. Sabally, has written a terse statement reacting to the recent diplomatic tensions between The Gambia and Senegal as well as his feelings about the recent arms cache in the Port of Apapa in Nigeria. The former military strongman who allegedly ran afoul of  his disgraceful comrade, Yahya Jammeh,  was arrested, court-martialled and sent to Mile II Prisons for nine years and ever since his release he too, has joined the listless list of Gambian émigrés.

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 UDP Leader, Ousainou Darboe felicitates Gambians On New Year

NEW YEAR MESSAGE OF MR. OUSAINU DARBOE, SECRETARY GENERAL AND PARTY LEADER OF THE UNITED DEMOCRATIC PARTY 2011

Once again I have the pleasure and singular honour to send you all, Gambians and non Gambians living among us greetings as we begin this New Year.

UDP's Leader Ousainou N. Darboe

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Opinion

PDOIS is being Disingenuous

Mr. Editor,

In one of my visits to your sister website, Jollofnews, I stumbled on an article authored by the Administrative Secretary of PDOIS in which he described the position of the UDP, in respect of the coalition talks, as ‘support for a UDP led alliance without any conditionality’.

President Jammeh confirms Echo story on JT Kujabi’s sacking

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief

Barely a week after we ran a lead story here that Washington’s diplomatic hammer that has been ferociously striking numerous diplomatic heads, Ebrima JT Kujabi, was sacked and asked to report to Banjul immediately, today, Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, has once again vindicated our allegations as factual.

Dictator Jammeh Vs. Kujabi, the hammer

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Breaking News

Sir Dawda’s family denies marriage to Jammeh’s mom

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-in-Chief

Ever since a section of the Senegalese media broke news that Gambia’s former President, Sir Dawda K. Jawara, recently wedded incumbent President Yahya Jammeh’s mom, Aja Azombi Fatou Bojang, our Echo phones have been ringing off the hook. Likewise, our Echo mail bag has been inundated with a barrage of emails from curious Gambians seeking clarification as to the veracity of the report.

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Echo Analysis

The Gambia in Perspective-Part 1

By D. A. Jawo, Banjul, The Gambia

Banjul, The Gambia--As we welcome yet another New Year, The Gambia continues to degenerate further into a dictatorship, with President Yahya Jammeh assuming absolute powers and behaving more like a monarch than an elected Head of State of a modern democracy.

D. A. Jawo Ex-President Gambia Press Union

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