Commentary

The Gambia and the challenges of democratic change in 2011

By Musa Camara

In the history of modern failed states few men are called upon to shape the uncharted destiny of their people for a new dispensation. The Gambia is at that crossroad as two of its imminent citizens are called upon to answer the clarion call of the day.

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Letter to President Jammeh

Mr. President Jammeh, is Ousman Koro Ceesay’s ghost haunting you thus making the political oxygen in the Senegambia region toxic and unbreatheable?

By M’boyedoh Yoba Sabally, Zighinchoir, Cassamance  

Hello President Jammeh,

Since your assumption of power in a bloodless coup on July 22, 1994 I am one pan-African that have been following your records in the sub-region. A pan-African in the sense that my biological ties straddle my land of birth, The Gambia, Senegal, and also the Casamance or region whose MFDC rebels you are openly aiding and abetting for your own parochial ends.

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Breaking News

Gambia’s iconic Speaker, Sir Alieu S. Jack, dies

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor In-Chief

The death has been announced of The Gambia’s veteran politician and former Speaker of Parliament, Sir Alieu Sulayman Jack. The former House Speaker died early Tuesday morning at about 9:00am at his Churchill’s town residence in the heart of Serekunda, the largest town in the mini-West African state.

Sir Alieu Sulayman Jack, Former Gambian Speaker

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Commentary

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Bombshell

President Jammeh sacks JT Kujabi, reappoints Jallow Washington DMC

--Also, Mboob & Ayo Sidibeh return to Washington Mission

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief

Barely a month after Ebrima JT Kujabi’s highly controversial resumption of duties as Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) in The Gambia’s ill-fated Washington, DC, Embassy, The Gambia Echo has reliably learnt that the diplomatic heavy-weight often referred to as the hammer, has been recalled and his services with The Gambia Government terminated with immediate effect.

Yahya Jammeh, Zaineb Jammeh & Ebrima J T Kujabi

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Senegalese journalist alleges Jammeh tries to corrupt him, discredit The Gambia Echo etc.

Note : This report is a verbatim reproduction of the allegations and claims per its Google English Translation from the original French Text

The President of Gamba, Yahya Jammeh has lost his serenity since the press began to make disclosures about his practices. The case of the arms shipments also continued to disrupt him  as comfirmed by a  reliable source. .

Afang Ibilis viciously looks on

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Breaking News

Jammeh vs. Wade

Banjul’s language- provocative, hostile, undiplomatic & insulting-Prof. Saine

--Senegal’s existential posture at stake- Cpt. Ebou Jallow

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief

As tension brews between the mini-West African state of The Gambia and its bigger Francophone neighbour, Senegal, that surrounds it on all sides except on the Atlantic rim; a geopolitical disposition making Gambia aptly characterized by a historian as “a rude finger inside Senegal’s umbilical cord,” The Gambia Echo launches an exclusive interview to examine this

Dr. Saine, Dr. Wade, Yahya Jammeh &Njogou Bah

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Recent political events in our African sub-region offer glimmers of hope marked in small steps, and crowned in big victories. It is a paradigm shift from a trademark political culture so corrupt; so devastating; it set a continent afire; literally. Hopefully, it more than just a cyclical adjustment to the mood of

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In Memoriam

Six years on; who killed Deyda Hydara?
 

By D. A. Jawo, Banjul, The Gambia West Africa

Banjul, The Cambia: This is the sixth year since the unprovoked murder of Deyda Hydara, a prominent Gambian journalist, and yet, there is no indication that investigations are being carried out to determine who committed such a dastardly act, as if the Gambian authorities do not care.

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Commentary

Jammeh-to be King or not to be King?

By Foday Samateh, New York

We are supposed to believe that a brazen plot of power-grab concocted in the State House in Banjul is a yearning call of a grateful nation on their benevolent President to accept the crown of a benign King.

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Breaking News

Maj Nyang’s wife,

Fatou Jobe, speaks out

-Appeals to President Jammeh for mercy

Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief

Ever since Gambian army officer, Major Wally Nyang left for work on that fateful Friday, March 5, 2010, the family is totally clueless as to his exact whereabouts and exactly nine months since his arrest, the young major’s emotional yet resilient wife; Mrs. Fatou Jobe Nyang, finally breaks her silence. In this exclusive Echo interview, Madam Jobe Nyang pleads with Gambian leader, Yahya Jammeh, to kindly intervene and ensure that her husband sees the light of day after almost a year in solitary detention.

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Breaking News

Gambia’s Health Minister, Dr. Gaye dies at airport

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief

Unimpeachable and highly placed State House sources, report that The Gambia’s Minster of Health, Dr. Abu Bakarr Gaye, died hours ago while aboard a Dakar bound jet. According to our sources, Dr. Gaye was admitted at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Banjul three days ago after his complaints of stomach complications.

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