The Money Trail:

Yahya Jammeh’s Corruption- Part III

$4,480,634.87

--Armors 5 Armadas at $923,840, buys Euro Motors’ S600 Mercedes at $151,625 etc.

By EBRIMA G. SANKAREH, Editor-In-Chief

In our on-going revelations of President Yahya Jammeh’s spineless transfers of millions of United States dollars to his buddy, Gambia’s Washington, DC Financial Attaché Lamin Sabi Sanyang we had promised to continue with Appendix IV to show how Sanyang himself and a so-called diplomatic Cultural Attaché, the most whimsical Ebrima T.J. Kujabie also, apparently benefited from this high profile corruption web.  

Yahya Jammeh & friend, Lamin Sabi Sanyang

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EDITORIAL

Living In A Parallel Universe

By Mathew K Jallow, Associate Editor

The experiences of the last dozen years under the weight of Yahya Jammeh’s brutal reign ought to make every right thinking Gambian pause and think. Yet, despite the suffering of our fellow citizens stemming from Jammeh’s rabidly brutal and incompetent regime, the emerging tsunami this is engendering still does not seem to register in the minds of many Gambians. As a result, we are gradually inclining on the precipice of social and political instability, and nothing Jammeh can do at this moment, will mitigate this impending disaster.

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The NIA’s Chambers of Horror-Part II

By Mathew K. Jallow, Associate Editor

The taxicab came to a halt on a dirt road half a mile from the main Mandinari-Lamin road. It was still dark and there was not a single star visible in the sky. The three men came out and walked slowly towards a clearing the size of a living room, and briefly stood in the center in a triangular formation. The hooded driver called out Samba’s name just as he withdrew both his hands from his pant pockets, and with the small torchlight he pulled out of his back pocket, he illuminated his face for Samba to see.

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Breaking News:

Ex-NIA Director Samba Bah Dies

By EBRIMA G. SANKAREH, Editor-In-Chief

Unimpeachable sources nestled within the corridors of state power report that Mr. Samba Bah, erstwhile Interior Minister and erstwhile Director General of The Gambia’s most predacious National Intelligence Agency (NIA) has died of mysterious circumstances on Thursday. Says our State House operative, ever since his sacking as Interior Secretary in the pre-prelude to the failed coup of March, 2006 and his subsequent brief detention at The Gambia’s Mile II Prisons,

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Reporters Without Borders

Press Release

22 October 2008

INTERNATIONAL - PRESS FREEDOM INDEX 2008

Only peace protects freedoms in post-9/11 world

Democracies embroiled in wars outside their own territory, such as the United States or Israel, fall further in the ranking every year while several emerging countries, especially in Africa and the Caribbean, give better and better guarantees for media freedom. It is not economic prosperity but peace that guarantees press freedom. That is the main lesson to be drawn from the world press freedom index that Reporters Without Borders compiles every year and from the 2008 edition, released today.

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 The NIA’s Chambers of Horror -A Story 

By Mathew K. Jallow, Associate Editor

The night dragged on so slowly, Samba thought daylight was never going to come. It was dark outside, and in the bedroom next to the kitchen, he could hear the soft snoring of his little son, Demba. It was music to his ears; as if Hotcha Baldeh was singing his melodious songs of love and betrayal to him.

Associate Editor Mathew K. Jallow

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Book Reviews:

Kenneth Swindell & Alieu Jeng. Migrants, Credit and Climate: The Gambian Groundnut Trade, 1834-1934. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2006, VI + 261 pp.

Jeggan C. Senghor. The Politics of Senegambian Integration, 1958-1994. Oxford, UK: Peter Lang Publishers, 2008, 335 pp.

By Professor Abdoulaye Saine, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA

Submitted as Ph.D. dissertations in 1974 and 1979 by Alieu Jeng and Jeggan Senghor at Birmingham and Yale Universities in the U.K and the US, respectively, each title covers an important period in the history of The Gambia. Jeng’s dissertation benefited from additional archival research by Kenneth Swindell, while Senghor extended his dissertation, which initially covered the period between 1958-1974 to now include the 1974-1994, period.

Professor Abdoulaye Saine, Miami University

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Bombshell Yahya Jammeh Withdraws US$1,000,000 from Central Bank, buys furniture in Jeddah

---Governor Bamba Saho & Finance Sect. Musa Bala Gaye Implicated

EBRIMA G. SANKAREH, Editor-In-Chief

As Gambians are reeling from the irksome revelations of President Yahya Jammeh and Lamin Sabi Sanyang’s reckless, callous and remorseless looting of millions of dollars of Gambian money, our correspondent Kissy Kissy Mansa has yet another bombshell that the autocratic dictator has yet again, unleashed on the battered Gambian economy.

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The Money Trail:

As Gambia sinks, Jammeh plays the flute, wires 

$4,480,634.87 millions to Lamin Sanyang, June-Dec. 2007

 --Armors 5 Armadas at $923,840, buys Euro Motors’ S600 Mercedes at $151,625 etc.

By EBRIMA G. SANKAREH, Editor-In-Chief

When we began the startling revelations about Yahya Jammeh’s reckless spending of millions of US dollars, some of our readers were a bit apprehensive as to the authenticity of our scoop. That was then and this is now, and we continue to unravel this treasure-trove siphoned to Washington DC while the majority of our countrymen continue to wallow in abject poverty.

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Miss Africa USA 2008

Hello Mr. Ebrima Sankareh,

I am Lady Kate Njeuma, a Cameroonian-American based in Georgia and President and Founder of the African Women's Development Foundation (AWDF), which is a non-profit 501 c 3 organization here in Georgia. AWDF produces the annual Miss Africa USA Scholarship pageant, a great event that unites our communities to celebrate the essence and beauty of African women while making great strides in fulfilling our humanitarian mission.

Lady Kate Njeuma

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Breaking News: Yahya Jammeh Hires Americans to Train Batch of Potential Assassins?

BY EBRIMA G. SANKAREH, Editor-In-Chief

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