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Commentary

Archbishop Palmer-Buckle’s “Funeral Oration”

 By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong

The Ghanaian enlightenment campaign is evolving. Ghanaian elites, for some time asleep, are fast getting involved in the enlightenment movement from their diverse stations in life. As the movement gathers steam, backed by the Ghanaian mass media, one area of the Ghanaian traditional life that has come under the enlightenment flashlight is the implications of the dead and funeral on the living.

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--Says bail conditions shameful, urges Jammeh to ensure duo’s security

URGENT: The Gambia: Women's Rights Defenders Dr. Isatou Touray and Amie Bojang-Sissoho released on bail with outrageous bail conditions: A Call for the withdrawal of the case. After spending ten days in detention the two prominent Women’s Human Rights Defenders were granted bail on Wednesday 20^th October, 2010 after a hearing in a crowded courtroom at the Banjul Magistrates Court. 

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In World Press Freedom Index, Gambia lags behind  

With many African countries marking the 50th anniversary of their independence, 2010 should have been a year of celebration but the continent’s journalists were not invited to the party. The Horn of Africa continues to be the region with the least press freedom but there were disturbing reverses in the Great Lakes region and East Africa.

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URGENT ALERT: THE GAMBIA. October 2010

Call on the Government of The Gambia to release immediately on bail women’s rights activists, Dr. Isatou Touray and Amie Bojang-Sissoho...

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Gambian journalists-  Hydara & Manneh honoured

The African Editors Forum (TAEF) yesterday October 14^th honoured the Late Deyda Hydara and disappeared journalist Chief Ebrima Manneh with the “‘Hero of African Journalism Award’ at a Gala Dinner held in Hotel Amitie, Bamako, Mali under the patronage of His Excellency Ahmadou Toumani Toure, President of Mali.

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Guest Editorial

Justice delayed is justice denied

Free Dr. Isatou Touray and Mrs. Amie Bojang Sissoho Now!

By Professor Abdoulaye Saine, Miami University

The continued incarceration of Dr. Isatou Touray, and Mrs. Amie Bojang Sissoho, at Mile II Prisons, as if they were common criminals, is simply despicable.  It is an affront to basic human decency and fundamental human rights- rights these honorable and admirable women have long fought for in defense of all Gambians, especially women and girls.

Amie Bojang & Dr. Isatou Touray

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Gambia Moral Congress tells Yahya Jammeh, “fix past wrongs„

--Says Mile II conditions affront to humanity

GMC continues to be gravely concerned about what appears to be a persistent pattern of persecution, arrest and serial prosecution of Gambian citizens most of whom appear to be rights advocates, opposition politicans or sympathisers, by the regime of Yaya Jammeh.

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Karamba Replies Alhagie Sanyang

Mr. Sanyang,

Since you replied to my take on the issue between
Bakawsu Fofana and the SIC and premising my stated opinions on what you term hatred for the gov't. of Yahya Jammeh, I want to take a moment to address you in your capacity as a private citizen even as you hastened to remind

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Human Rights

Banjul  Rights Coalition blasts President Jammeh for arrest of two women

Two Prominent Gender and Human Rights Defenders detained   in The Gambia. 

Two prominent Gender and Human Rights defenders, Dr. Isatou Touray and Amie Bojang Sissoho were arrested and detained on Monday October 11^th, 2010 by Gambian security forces, kept in police custody at the Banjul Police station, and sent to jail on Tuesday 12 October 2010.

Amie Bojang & Dr. Isatou Touray

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Spain-APRC Chief differs with Karamba

--Insists Imam Ba Kawsu, malicious &unislamic cleric

Ebrima,

I'm not writing as the President of APRC Spain Chapter to refute the allegations of Karamba Touray's long diatribe on the Imam Ba Kawsu Fofana issue, but as a concerned Gambian who would like to put some records straight. I know some on-line contributors would get into writing any bunkum as long as it's about The Gambia and their hate for the government without getting into the details and facts of what they are writing about.

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As 2 women activists languish in Banjul jail

-Brother to one says “arrest  shameful testament to Jammeh’s evil regime”

By Momodou Olly Mboge, Oslo, Norway.

Few months ago, I was profoundly dismayed by an essay penned by Rtd. Colonel Samsudeen Sarr, published on the online news outlet-The Gambiaecho and captioned: “A Quest for Sabarry”.  What I gathered then from Sarr was that Gambians should just accept the abuses and excesses of the mad buffoon, Mr. Yahya Jammeh and beg for mercy in order that peace will prevail.

Amie Bojang & Dr. Isatou Touray sit in Banjul jail

(Photo: The Point Newspaper)

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Kekoto (Kexx) Bajo dies in fatal Collision

Born in the 1950s in Salikenni, Central Badibou Constituency, Republic of The Gambia, Kexx attended Armitage High School and taught for a while before migrating to the United States of America in 1977.

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Gambia’s Supreme Islamic Council, corrupt, immoral & lacks standing

By Karamba Touray, Florida, USA.

Throughout Gambian history, communities have always assumed responsibility for the way they practice their religions. They marshal their resources, build their houses of worship, choose their prayer leaders and pursue the tenets and traditions of their faith in the manner that best suits them. By and large this remains true for most

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Combating Poverty: New Battle Gear for an Ancient War

By Lansana Gberie

(A review of Combating Poverty: Structural Change, Social Policy and Politics: A Report by United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, UNRISD, August 2010). Since antiquity the problem of poverty has engaged the consciences of statesmen and thinkers, but few have dared to draw the obvious context – and fuel – for it: inequality.

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Gambian patriot differs with D A Jawo over bogus awards 

With all due respect to my brother and friend, D.A. Jawo, I beg to differ that any Gambia should be embarrassed by Yaya Jammeh’s actions. Why should we be? Does he deserve such attention? The Gambia does not deserve Yaya Jammeh and his regime; hence no matter how low he goes he cannot go below the atrocities and impunity he metes out to his fellow Gambians on a daily basis. I want to beg each and every Gambian never to feel embarrassed, sad or humiliated by Yaya Jammeh. By feeling so, we embolden him; we make him important; we acknowledge him and we raise his profile.

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Stop the nonsense, Alima is Second First Lady. Period!

By Prince Bubacarr A. Sankanu, Germany

The official press release announcing President Jammeh's entry into the polygamy club is very insulting to our intelligence. The person who wrote it and the one who suggested that Alima can be simply addressed as “Lady” should be fired for wasting tax payers' money.

Beauty and the Gambian beast

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Another embarrassment to Gambians
 By D. A. Jawo

A vast majority of Gambians have no doubt been unanimously embarrassed by the recent ceremony held in The Gambia to present a “Presidential Champions Platinum Award” to President Yahya Jammeh which was said to have been from President Barack Obama of the United States, and which turned out not to be so.

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Opinion

How do we bring about change?

Dear Editors,

It is clear to all of us that Yaya Jammeh is a project that seeks to destroy the Gambia. All indications are there for the Gambia to erupt like Ivory Coast or Liberia or Sierra Leone, and in our case it will be even nastier. This is because the Gambia is an insignificant country in West Africa, Africa and the world. Thus what it would take to draw international attention to us will be lot heavier and take longer time that it did for those counties.

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Breaking News

US Senate confirms Pam White, Gambia’s new envoy

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief

A highly placed source nestled within the US State Department has revealed to The Gambia Echo, the confirmation of Mrs. Pamela Ann White as President Barack Obama’s nominee for the position of Gambian Ambassador in the mini-West African state under the thumb of a brutal dictator, Yahya Jammeh.

Pamela Ann White with Fatma Kassim, Tanzania

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Bombshell

First Lady Zeinab Jammeh flees Gambia with 2 children

--Damning tales of betrayal, lust & lies

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief

Ever since The Gambia Echo broke news of President Jammeh’s marriage to an 18-year old teenager, Ms. Alima Sallah, about three months ago, the Gambian dictator, Yahya Jammeh, has been engulfed in what can be aptly characterized as simmering matrimonial chaos with prized Moroccan born wife, Madam Zeinab Suma Jammeh, relentlessly threatening divorce.

Alima Sallah Jammeh & Zeinab Suma Jammeh, Gambia's two First Ladies

Alhaji Chichai Jammeh

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