By Mathew K. Jallow, Associate Editor

Ko min musitdo modon Musa Camara jodanion n’doo. Mbalen jam. And with that, one day last week our friend and brother Musa Camara said his signature goodbye for the very last time. For any Gambian tuning in to the local news each night, this good night greeting signaling the end of the night’s Fula news casting, has become a familiar refrain

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By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-in-Chief

When 29-year-old Lieutenant Yahya A.J.J.Jammeh toppled the constitutionally elected government of Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara on Friday July 22, 1994 he and his Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council-military junta came up with a gospel based on a Trinity of: Accountability, Transparency & Probity.

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    By Ebrima G. Sankareh

The death has been announced of veteran Fula newsreader and media educator on Radio Gambia, Musa Camara. This scanty yet shocking report was conveyed to us through our anonymous sources this morning.

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Dear Readers: The photo above is that of the battered body of Wassa Janneh of Brikama in the hands of the Gambia's notorious National Intelligence Agency.

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By Mathew K. Jallow, Associate Editor

A recent Daily Observer editorial captioned: Senegal continues to destabilize Gambia, was rather baffling to most Gambians. Evidently, The Daily Observer is suffering from the bat syndrome; seeing things upside down. There is only one person who is destabilizing the Senegal and Gambia region, and that person is Yahya Jammeh. Besides, no one in the international community should take Jammeh’s whining seriously since both he and his regime have lost credibility at home and abroad.

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Dear Editor:  

The quality of your product deserves praise and appreciation. The need for sober discuss, the lack of which still plagues the Gambian internet community has seen a bite taken out of it because of your professionalism, and fair and fearless mindedness in the pieces you have written. Therefore, I wish to join the multitude of grateful readers to say JAARAMA.

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It was three decades ago that, Professor Abdoulaye Saine of the Miami University at Oxford, Ohio quit his promising teaching career in The Gambia and immigrated to the United States to expand his intellectual horizon. With only ten US Dollars ($10) in his pocket he arrived in Denver, Colorado determined to change his life through rigorous academic work.

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    By Mathew K. Jallow, Associate Editor 

          The Echo. A Year That Was

A little over a year ago, The Echo was just an idea in someone’s mind, and as with all new initiatives, some questions inevitably swirled around the founder’s head. Will it work? Will Gambians across the world embrace this newspaper and the objectives it has set out to accomplish? But, now that the paper is about to reach a first milestone this week, our readers have unequivocally answered these questions. By starting this online newspaper, proprietor Ebrima G. Sankareh has exemplified a vision that is informed by a sense of obligation to our people, and motivated by the increasing despair confronting them.

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Having carefully read Mr. Amadou Alpha Lowe's reaction to Lamarana's postings on the Freedom Newspaper; I am compelled to react. Evidently, Mr. Lowe is an admirer of B.B. Dabo, and he has gone to great lengths to defend him. That is admirable. Personally, I have nothing against Mr. Dabo, and in fact I like him too to the extent that after the coup in 1994, I wrote a piece in The Daily Observer urging the new military junta to make efforts to bring Mr. Dabo back to help run the government.

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By Amadou Alpha Lowe, Atlanta GA, USA

Reactions to Vice President B. B. Dabo’s recent interview with The Gambia Echo have been mixed, understandably so too. I wish to comment on some of the reactions thus far received, with particular emphasis on that of the so-called LAMARANA invented by The Freedom Newspaper’s Pa Nderry. Lamarana started his crusade immediately after the well-informed write-ups on Sana Sabally’s nonsense by Binneh, Chongan, Samsudeen Sarr and others.

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By Ebrima G. Sankareh

As part of our one year anniversary, The Gambia Echo will share a very discrete photograph of President Yahya Jammeh and a married woman. We have received this photo from one of our most trusted sources, Kissy Kissy Mansa who until recently, was President Jammeh's closest confidant. The photo speaks volumes about numerous allegations that have been wildly brewing in Banjul for three years now.It was taken at a house party at Kanilai when the First Lady was abroad.

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By Muhammed Lamin Touray, USA

Dear President Jammeh:

"Dr." Jammeh: Do Dictators Listen?

I write to ask for your urgent personal intervention in the matter of Mr. Kanyiba Kanyi who is my close relative and an indispensable friend. The Gambian security forces arrested Mr. Kanyi on September 18, 2006, from his home in Bonto Village. He has since been deprived of his God given rights as well as those guaranteed by the very Constitution that created your position (office of President), which you have publicly and under oath, pledged to protect without fear or favor, affection or ill will. Mr. Kanyiba Kanyi has now been detained incommunicado for more than eight months without being charged of any crime or offense, or brought before any court of law.

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Lamin Camara, Defence Atty.

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By Lt. Colonel  S. S. Sarr

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                                 By Mathew K. Jallow

 Six feet under, beneath red sandy clay, bloated bodies’ lay

Lacerations, ghastly wounds, punctured skulls

Maggots on feeding frenzy, like tomorrow will never come

Curled-up upper lip, and pale lifeless leathery skin

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By Bubacarr Sankanu, Berlin, Germany

        My Dear Mathew K. Jallow:

Sorry if I made you “smoking hot with rage.” It is nothing personal; I can’t just help it. I am too bitter to swallow. Please, next time make sure you have enough water to gulp me down your bowels before even dreaming of chewing me. If you don’t, you will have to sniff me out, purge me out or strangulate yourself!

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