July 25, 2008

Thank you to the citizens of Berlin and to the people of Germany. Let me thank Chancellor Merkel and Foreign Minister Steinmeier for welcoming me earlier today. Thank you Mayor Wowereit, the Berlin Senate, the police, and most of all thank you for this welcome.I come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen have come before. Tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for President, but as a citizen - a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world.

Senator Obama speaks to over 200,0000 people (AP Photo)

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As Supt. Sanyang’s Case Gathers Momentum, Yahya Jammeh’s Criminal Web Crashes,

Over D40M Stolen

Interior Minister Sonko, Ex-NIA Chiefs, Others Named

By EBRIMA G. SANKAREH, Editor-In-Chief

The on-going legal saga involving police Superintendent Manlafi Sanyang an errant cyclist turned presidential wheeler-dealer, continues to raise eyebrows among Gambians and every court sitting has sent shock waves with reverberations of epic proportions.  Some months ago, after we broke news of Superintendent Sanyang’s arrest with erstwhile State House presidential guard Lieutenant Bakary Camara...

Interior Minister, Ousman Sonko

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As Jammeh Regime Celebrates Disaster, Opposition UDP Alerts World

United Democratic Party (UDP)

C/O P. O. Box 500

Bronx, NY 10453

udp_nyc@yahoo.com

July 22^nd, 2008

Statement issued by the (UDP) on the July 22^nd celebrations:

Gambian People, the international Community and all Democratic and Human Rights Organizations worldwide are hereby called upon to condemn in the strongest terms the (APRC) Government for celebrating the July 22 1994 Coup D’etat, the day some junior undisciplined, Non Commissioned officers of The Gambia National Army led by Yahya Jammeh swept away the legitimate and constitutionally elected Government of the Gambian people.

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Witness to History? Interview with  Ali A. Mazrui   In February 2008, Mwalimu Ali Mazrui turned 75. On this occasion, he sat down with Holler Africa's  Seifudein Adem  with a bunch of “unusual” questions. What follow are excerpts from the interview.                 SA: You have met (and continue to meet) leaders after leaders in Africa and beyond, from Idi Amin to Muammar Khadafy, from Kwame Nkrumah to Nelson Mandela, and the list is long. Of the leaders you have met who impressed you most, positively and/or negatively, and why?

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In Senegal especially, the capital Dakar, life is becoming a boredom due to the acute shortage of rice, the Francophone West African country’s stable food. Most families now have resorted to the traditional foods, Chereh (Coos coos) and Njeleng (grains from cereals).
 
By ALPHA JALLOW, Dakar, Senegal, West Africa.
 
The first thing that a visitor coming to Dakar does after arriving is to go down town Dakar and have a taste of the country’s most popular food "Cheep bou Ginn", rice and fish, with a melanche of vegetables marinated and cooked in oil.

This Senegalese young mother contemplates her fate

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The Gambia’s  Development Crisis- How Social Justice Becomes Another Political Illusion?

By ABDOUKARIM SANNEH, United Kingdom

The Human Development Index of the United Nations Development Programme 2007 has indicated that The Gambia and many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa are the worst places to live on this planet. What another disheartening report of hopelessness, despair, hunger, poverty and development crisis? For many people who are worried with what is happening in The Gambia, this report is not a surprise.

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Letter Writer Alleges Massive Corruption & Nepotism At Gambia Drug Squad

Dear Editor:

May I bring to the attention of our beloved nation the form of pure nepotism and classic bullying and corruption currently taking place at the National Drug Enforcement Agency in Banjul? This unacceptable behaviour and action is taking place under the leadership of Bun Sanneh who is not only violating the code of conduct of the Agency but also blatantly trying to deceive the authorities and other hard working officers.

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Breaking News: President Jammeh Orders Taf Holding Company Ltd. to Pay $1.3 Millions or Else… 

By EBRIMA G. SANKAREH, Editor –In-Chief

According to unimpeachable sources within the corridors of state power, President Yahya Jammeh has ordered Taf Holding’s Chief Executive, Mustapha Njie, to pay him $1.3 Millions (D30,000,000 Gambian Dalasis) or face severe consequences. Reveals our most competent State House operative Kissy Kissy Mansa, it all began in the prelude to the 2006 Africa Union Summit when the errant Head of State in his usual show of bravado had cladestinely instructed Njie to order consrtuction materials for an African Union Villa Project to impress the world.

Mustapha Njie And Friend Yahya A. J. J. Jammeh

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Press Statement

Illegal Imprisonment of Ebrima Manneh Reaches Second Year

Today Monday, July 7, 2008 marks Gambian journalist Chief Ebrima Manneh’s 730 days in detention in an undisclosed location in The Gambia. The continued detention demands that his family, colleagues and human rights advocates continue to pressure the Gambian authorities about his whereabouts. The disappearance of the 30 year-old journalist has left his mother and father in a state of hopeless devastation and continues to put fear in journalists and other citizens of the Gambia.  

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The G8 Meets the Dragon in Africa

By JAMES SHIKWATI, Director IREN

As G8 leaders assemble in Toyako in Japan; it has not escaped keen observers that the entry of China into the game of doling money has radically change the way Africa is perceived in the World. Africa has become a strategic
energy supplier to large economies. The G8 has been synonymous with Tony Blair's sentiments of characterizing Africa as 'the scar on the conscience of the World.'

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Boycotting Jammeh’s Regime

By MATHEW K. JALLOW, Associate Editor

The Mugabe Lesson

Before the last general and presidential elections in 2006, there were several pieces written encouraging, as a matter of fact, pleading with the opposition UDP/NRP coalition to boycott the elections. Unfortunately, this fell on deaf ears, and the coalition went ahead and contested the elections, even though they knew there was no way they could pull out a victory.

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