Breaking News: NIA Allegedly Arrests Ex-Information Minister Neneh Macdouall Gaye

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief

According to highly placed sources reaching The Gambia Echo Newspaper, Erstwhile Information Minister and spokesperson of the Jammeh regime, Neneh Macdouall Gaye was allegedly arrested by agents of National Intelligence Agency (NIA) late last week.

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Police Terror and Lawless Order in the USA By Dr. Floyd W. Hayes, III   "I see a growing prison-garrison state in which urban residents will become the targets of mounting police murder and incarceration." The author's grim assessment is based on the "absolute disregard for the sanctity of Black life" that marks each era of American history, from chattel slavery to the 50-bullet New York City police barrage that killed Sean Bell. Urban police practices constitute a kind or organized terror that remains essentially unchanged even after police ranks have become integrated.

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Tribalism: Blame Yahya Jammeh    

By Mathew K. Jallow, Associate Editor

The ascendancy of Yahya Jammeh’s regime, the APRC, and its rule over the past thirteen years has ushered in an era of unprecedented tribalism and patronage. Regrettably, however, this regime-sanctioned practice of tribalism has never really been discussed in any detail and depth in the past, but that all seems to be changing now. The past couple of weeks have seen both The Gambia Echo and Freedom cast the spotlight on this perennial and vexing problem of tribal prejudice.

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The Tragic Tale of Four Comrades; 2 Executed, 1 Sentenced to Life, 1 in Exile

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief

Although there is a corpus of literature about them, yet nowhere have their images been seen except for the forced video confessions shortly after their alleged complicity in the foiled coup allegedly masterminded by fugitive army Chief Colonel Ndure Cham in March, 2006. Today, The Gambia Echo is gracious to our sources for providing us with their photo taken barely three weeks in the prelude to the alleged coup that portended their extra-judicial executions on or about April 4^th, 2006 during the infamous prisoner escape hoax reported by Yahya Jammeh’s government.

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Tribalism: The Kettle Calling the Pot Black.

By Mathew K. Jallow, Associate Editor

The so-called annual “Dialogue with the Farmers Tour” 2008 edition is history, and as expected, the whole exercise was shrouded in waste and short of substance. With the myriad of social and economic problems facing our country, the Tour schedule was replete with “victory celebrations” at the end of each day. Jammeh, it would appear, was more interested in the adulation of his ever-dwindling circle of supporters that in a genuine dialogue with farmers to discuss national interest issues in the face of the ever-skyrocketing commodity prices.

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Please Remain Focus 

By John Andrew Langley, Oxford, England

Dear Editor:

Thank you very much for exercising ultimate maturity in managing the frugal babble of a clique of an intruder in the Internet world calling themselves journalists. I believe your mature way of handling such comic characters, whose only podium fits a twirling rubble of requiem and downright company of keratinous folks, is the only way forward for you journalists to rid your profession of such actors.

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A Trilogy of Jammeh’s Political

Failure & Fading Historical Relevance

      BY TIJAN NIMAGA, Bronx New York

The failure of President Jammeh’s government has not only affected our nation’s economy but has also tarnished most of our historical monuments, as well as our traditional practices, and seeks to destroy anything that can educate or remind the Gambia’s younger generation of what our country was like before and after the colonial eras.

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As Hon. Suku Singhateh Mismanages Economy Under Jammeh’s Watch;

Time For Action on Food Security

By Bubacarr Sankanu, Cologne, Germany

Honourable Suku Singhateh’s exploitation of Gambian farmers, reported by The Gambia Echo, does not speak well of the state of affairs. Suku’s action could spell trouble for Jammeh’s Government since a hungry man they say, is an angry man. Gambian farmers might tolerate the excesses of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), the Army and the various Special Forces recently created to consolidate Jammeh’s power, but in the medium and long term, these structures will crumble before an army of hungry protesting farmers.

BUBACARR SANKANU, COLOGNE, GERMANY

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2010 World Cup: Time to Launch Creative Africa

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Attitude Change: New West African Crusade

By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong

Starting from Sierra Leone, since this year, there have been campaigns West Africa-wide for attitude change as a progress measure. Anybody who knows West Africa well, as Kwasi Gyan-Apeteng, a former editor of the once prestigious London, UK-based defunct West Africa Magazine and currently member of Ghana’s National Commission of Culture, will tell you, “we are poor because we lack the right attitude.”

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Obama Wins N.C. Primary, Clinton wins Indiana

By DAVID ESPO and LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writers

Barack Obama swept to a convincing victory in the North Carolina primary Tuesday night and declared he was closing in on the Democratic presidential nomination. Hillary Rodham Clinton eked out a win in Indiana as she struggled to halt her rival's march into history.

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Is Yahya Jammeh The Gambia?

By Mathew K. Jallow, Associate Editor

Sarjo Bayang’s editorial in Allgambian.net asks a sobering question that needs to be answered. Who owns The Gambia? It sounds like a very silly question to ask, yet it is as serious as it can get, for ours is a country taken possession of by an individual who is doing whatever he likes, whenever he likes, and, how ever he likes. In all his frequent public outbursts, tirades and diatribes, Yahya Jammeh has often evoked the first person “I” when he refers to The Gambia, and I for one, can never ever bring myself to accept this. Does Yahya Jammeh equal The Gambia?

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Echo Exclusive on Banta Kaira’s Arrest; Arms or Rice? Economic Crime or Coup Scare?

By EBRIMA G. SANKAREH Editor-In-Chief

EVER SINCE news of the arrest and detention of Gambian business tycoon and General Manager of JIMPEX Banta Kaira and one business consultant Dodou Jobe last Monday followed later by the arrest and subsequent detention of two high profile Police officers, Messrs: Burama Dibba, Crime Management Co-ordinator and Ebrima Kunji Jammeh Serious Crimes Commander, The Gambia Echo has been working the phone lines and we are now able to report our findings.

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MFWA Urges Gambia & Niger Governments to Respect Press Freedom 

As the world celebrates World Press Freedom Day, tomorrow, May 3, 2008, Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) is once again drawing attention to the deteriorating press freedom situation in The Gambia and Niger, where serious freedom of expression and press freedom violations continue unabated.

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Reporters Without Borders

Press release

2 May 2008

The predators of press freedom

Reporters Without Borders is today issuing an updated of list of its “predators of press freedom” for World Press Freedom Day. For the past seven years Reporters Without Borders has exposed the world’s “predators of press freedom” – men and women who directly attack journalists or order others to.  Most are top-level politicians (including presidents, prime ministers and kings) but they also include militia chiefs, leaders of armed groups and drug-traffickers.

Gambia's Jammeh among press freedom predators

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NIA’s Ngorr Secka Reports to Work At Guinean Embassy

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In- Chief

Unimpeachable sources close to the corridors of power reveal that Gibril Ngorr Secka (a.k.a Mam Ngorr) the erstwhile National Intelligence Agency operative who was detained for a year at Gambia’s Mile II Prisons, has reported to Guinea Bissau as Deputy Ambassador to that impoverished West African state.

Ngorr in circle with another NIA agent in orange shirt during the demonstration against Deyda Hydara's murder

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