Gambia’s Literary Icon-Surgeon, Dr. Lenrie Peters, Dies

By Ebrima G. Sankareh

It is with profound shock and sadness that The Gambia Echo reports the sudden death of Gambia’s literary icon and surgeon, Dr. Lenrie Leopold Wilfrid Peters. Peters, 76 reportedly died at a Dakar, Senegal hospital. This breaking News is based on the veracity of the local, The Point Newspaper, following what the paper quoting family sources, attributes to “sudden illness”.

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Macdouall-Gaye, 14 others Present Letters to President Obama

By EBRIMA G. SANKAREH, Editor-In-Chief

Predictably, as reported on our Tuesday May 5 edition, The Gambia’s former Information Minister and ambassador designate to Washington, DC, Neneh Macdouall Gaye, had presented her letters of credence to President Obama at the Oval offce on Wednesday, May 20, 2009. 

Macdouall Gaye, Washington, DC Ambassador

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Breaking News

Sen. Durbin tells Yahya Jammeh, Chief Manneh’s Detention is ‘Reprehensible & Outrageous’

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-in-Chief

In a sequel to a terse Senatorial outburst lamenting the utterly despicable human rights record of the Jammeh government and signed by six senior Senators on May 22 this year, Illinois Senior Senator and Assistant Majority Leader in The United States Senate, Richard J. Durbin has yet again, sent a damning message to Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh. In a release sent to The Gambia Echo lamenting poor governance and human rights cases around the world, Senator Durbin expressed shock and dismay at the Jammeh government’s belligerence over the disappearance of Gambian journalist Chief Ebrima Manneh.

Sen.R. Durbin, Sen. R. Feingold, Sen. R. Casey

Sen. P. Murray, Sen. J. Liberman & Sen.T. Kennedy

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COMMENTARY

The Long Road to Freedom

By Mathew K. Jallow, Associate Editor

Recently, five of us Gambians were huddled together in the living room of my residence in Madison. We were engaged in animated discussion about; what else, but the state of affairs in The Gambia, and of course who will forget, Yahya Jammeh. Come to think of it, it was more like a shouting match than a civilized exchange of ideas.

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Witch Hunts and Foul Potions Heighten Fear of Leader in Gambia

By ADAM NOSSITER, The New York Times 

JAMBUR, Gambia — This tiny West African nation’s citizens have grown familiar with the unpredictable exploits of its absolute ruler, who insists on being called His Excellency President Professor Dr. Al-Haji Yahya Jammeh: his herbs-and-banana cure for AIDS, his threat to behead gays, his mandate that only he can drive through the giant arch commemorating his coup in the moldering capital, Banjul, and his ubiquitous grinning portrait posted along roadsides.

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Breaking News

African Commission Damns Gambia Government Over Worsening Human Rights Record

The African Commission on Human and People’s Right (ACHPR) has renewed its call on the government of President Yahya Jammeh to respect the rule of law and “bring an immediate end to the harassment and intimidation” meted out daily to media workers in the country.

Yahya Jammeh, Chief Manneh & Justice Minister Saine Firdaus 

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Yahya Jammeh's Drugs & Arms Trade:How The Gambia has become a drug transit state By Abdoukarim Sanneh, London, UK Yahya Jammeh's pursuit of wealth and power has a geo-political implication for the peace and stability of the whole of West Africa. Under the brutal dictatorial rule of Jammeh and his APRC Government, the Gambia has fuelled conflict in the Senegalese region of Casamance, Guinea Bissau, Liberia and Sierra Leone. In 2002, when the former President of Guinea Bissau, Kumba Yalla, threatened to invade the Gambia, many did not make a contextual analysis of the rationality of such a statement, but it was Yahya

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How Jammeh’s Dictatorship is Surviving         

By Mathew K Jallow, Associate Editor

In order to understand how Gambians have acquiesced to Yahya Jammeh’s noxious rule and brutal regime, it is very necessary to engage in some mythological de-construction. Agreeably, dictatorships like Yahya Jammeh’s, survive on a complicated convergence of variables, yet it does not take a rocket scientist to figure out and separate the myths from facts.

The powerful and Most Lethal Green Boys

Sweden Letter Writer Reacts to Sabi Sanyang's Appointment

Dear Mr. Editor,
 
I read your great piece on the famous diplomat and just to paraphrase from it, there is a quote wondering if Jammeh has any grey matter…. I really have to say he doesn't. Only a week ago, on the very notorious Daily Observer, a release was published canceling the Kanilai Festival for fear of the Swine Flu,

Breaking News After Months in Detention over corruption, Disgraced diplomat, Lamin Sanyang is Washington Counsellor

BY EBRIMA G. SANKAREH, Editor-In-Chief

According to unimpeachable sources at The Gambia’s Foreign Ministry, Lamin Sabi Sanyang, Banjul’s once most powerful diplomatic hand in the US, has been elevated to the rank of Gambian Counsellor at its ill-fated Washington, DC Embassy following a shameful prosecutorial amnesty granted to him by Gambian dictator, Yahya Jammeh.

Lamin Sabi Sanyang and Yahya Jammeh

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WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY

WHEN GOVERNMENTS TAKE JOURNALISTS HOSTAGE

In the run-up to World Press Freedom Day on 3 May, Reporters Without Borders is campaigning for the release of three women journalists who have been “taken hostage” by governments. Four members of Reporters Without Borders have been on hunger strike since 28 April in support of Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi, who has been sentenced to eight years in prison in Iran on a charge of spying for the United States.

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'Africa 24 Media' Pays Tribute to Continent’s Brave Journalists

By Salim Amin, Nairobi, Kenya

Throughout my career as a journalist covering this Continent I have the most vivid memories of fallen colleagues who gave their life to tell the African story, journalists I had the privilege of working very closely with and who I am proud to call my friends. Hos Maina, Anthony Macharia and Dan Eldon, who were brutally killed in Mogadishu in 1993, John Maathai who died while working with my father in Ethiopia in 1991, and Brian Tetley who perished along with my father onboard the hijacked Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed in the Comoros in 1996.

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