GMC declares position on Libya

GMC supports United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1973 (2011) regarding the Libyan Peoples Arab Jamahiriya. The key element of this Resolution is to take all measures to protect the civilian population from violence and large scale atrocities evidently being perpetrated by the security forces of that country.

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UUDP on Ivory Coast

The Gambia government’s recent pronouncement on the situation in Ivory Coast and the efforts of Alasane Ouattara the legitimately elected President of that country to establish law and order in the face of his losing opponent’s deadly intransigence that cost nearly 1500 Ivorians their lives and displaced more than a million people was at once pathetic and immoral.

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Ya Aishatou Sanneh-Manjang dies

It is with profound sadness that the Manjang and Faye families of Yundum, the Sanneh, Gaye and Njie family of Banjul, the Faye and Manneh families of Brufut, the extended Manjang, Sanneh, Faye families in Senegambia, Guinea Bissau and beyond, regret to announce the sudden loss of a much beloved and cherished wife, mother, cousin, sister, grandmother, aunt, great aunt: Aja Ya Aishatou Sanneh Manjang.

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Commentary

Crisis of confidence looms as Gambian opposition remains divided

By Karamba Touray, Florida, USA

Significant worry has set in the hearts of many of us who support the respective political parties opposed to the regime of Yahya Jammeh. Individually and as civic minded groups, Gambians of all stripes have tried to work towards a cohesive, unified front that would offer our people a clear alternative to a regime they instinctively know is not right for them.

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 Analysis

Ex-Gambian-US envoy, H. E. Essa Bokarr Sey, accuses Presidents Gbagbo and Jammeh of arms trafficking

—Calls duo “disgraced political serpents” as Gbagbo’s attorneys seek “visitor's permit” from President Ouattara

By Essa Bokarr Sey

The essence of law can never be underestimated where democracy is expected to thrive. However and unfortunately, those who have the means of paying the services of these very expensive French lawyers are not able to. Why are they not able to? They are not able to because their money was stolen by the current client of the French lawyers. How about if these so-called human rights lawyers proceeded to Banjul and then help Deyda Hydara's family?

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Echo Editorial

Gambia’s Pathological liar, Yahya Jammeh, condemns America, EU, eulogizes Gbagbo, blasts Ouattara &Campaore  

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor –in-Chief

In an unprecedented development, Gambia’s genocidal murderer, notorious money launderer, blood diamond peddler and pathological liar, Yahya Jammeh, who curiously presides over an utterly criminal regime, has in a shameless statement aired over state media and replete with childish euphemisms, condemned in the strongest terms, the United States, the EU and Ivorian President, Alassan Ouattara.

Captain Sankara & Murderer Jammeh 

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GMC issues statement on Cote d’Ivorie

We endorse and adopt the position of ECOWAS, the African Union, the United Nations and the international community on the political imbroglio in Cote d’Ivoire. We condemn in the strongest of terms the illegitimate attempts of former President Laurent Gbagbo to cling on to power by all unlawful means.

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PDOIS’ statement on the way forward in cote d‘ivoire after Gbagbo’s capture

17th April 2011

Issued By Halifa Sallah

Now that the Government of The Gambia has made its position unequivocally clear on the way forward for Cote D Ívoire, PDOIS would like to put its position in the public domain so that all those interested in the welfare of the sovereign Ivorian people would be able to gauge which way forward is the viable one.

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Analysis

Who to blame—scapgoating Pan-Africanism for Gbagbo & other tyrants’ shenanigans?

By: MOMODOU OLLY MBOGE, Oslo, Norway.

Oslo, Norway— I claim that Pan Africanism has never been on the side of murderers nor has it stopped to shoulder its own burden and pains which it believes is the same with what the poor, oppressed and the dignified masses keep enduring everyday with dignity and poise. Pan-Africanism and Pan-Africanists are the lot of the masses on the battle front fighting for freedom, dignity and prosperity.   

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BBC News break

15 April 2011

Burkina Faso: Mutiny at President Compaore barracks

Soldiers in Burkina Faso's capital have mutinied, with gunfire resounding throughout Ouagadougou overnight. The protests began when members of the presidential guard started shooting into the air in protest at unpaid housing allowances.

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Malaria Awareness

News Release: 14^th April 2011

Royal Commonwealth Society and Olyset Net Launch new Malaria Net Awareness Campaign

 The Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS) in partnership with Olyset Net has launched a global competition to raise awareness of the importance of mosquito nets in malaria prevention. 

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SENEGAL

Another heavy fine and suspended jail sentence for investigative journalist

A Dakar court yesterday gave Abdou Latif Coulibaly, the editor of the weekly La Gazette, a three-month suspended jail sentenced and fined him 10 million CFA francs (15,267 euros) for allegedly defaming a Senegalese businessman close to President Wade by accusing him of acting fraudulently in his dealings with the government.

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Today the United States based Gambians’ Movement for Democracy and Development (MDD) a Pro-Democracy, Human Rights and Justice Movement commemorates and mourns the events that happened on April 10th and 11th, 2000. This commemoration event of a great injustice offered an excellent opportunity to stress the importance of maintaining human rights and justice in The Gambia.
 

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Breaking News

US Agency renders damning verdict on Gambia’s appalling human rights

—Says torture, abduction, poor prison conditions, violence against women rampant!

By Ebrima G. Sankareh Editor-in-Chief

As the mini-West African state of The Gambia readies for presidential and parliamentary elections later this year, the reputable US Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, issues its 2010 Human Rights Report on The Gambia.  

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Control of news and information part of battle for Abidjan

Reporters Without Borders fears that the ongoing military battle for control of Côte d’Ivoire’s business capital, Abidjan, could be accompanied by atrocities and massacres. It urges all parties to protect civilians and hopes that peace will be quickly restored.

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COMMENTARY
April 10 student demo – still waiting for justice
                              
 By D. A. Jawo, Banjul, The Gambia

Today (April 10) is the 11th anniversary of the student demonstration of April 2000 which was violently suppressed by the Gambian security forces, leaving more than 14 young students killed by bullets and several others injured, some maimed for the rest of their lives. The only crime that those innocent young children committed was insisting on staging a peaceful demonstration in order to protest against certain grievances, including the alleged killing of one of their colleagues by the fire brigade personnel in Brikama.

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By Ansumana Sambou, Banjul The Gambia

Almost ninety-five percent of Gambians are Muslims and although most Gambians are devout Muslims, how many of them know and understand this great religion?

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Press Release
For immediate release

Mo Ibrahim Leadership Fellowships to support Africa’s next generation

Thursday 7 April 2011: The Mo Ibrahim Foundation, in partnership with three of the world’s most influential multilateral organisations, announces the launch of the Ibrahim Leadership Fellowships programme. Working with the African Development Bank (AfDB), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), and the World Trade Organization (WTO) the Fellowships Programme will help to prepare the next generation of outstanding African leaders by providing them with unique mentoring opportunities.

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