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Articles from
August 2010
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Editorial
We have failed them; our own Wretched of The Earth
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By Mathew K Jallow, Associate Editor
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The setting sun cast its reddish glow across the white-washed perimeter fence, where the crimson shadow of the tall east wall struggles to stretch out across the highway. The aura of serenity and somberness that surrounds the place was at once strange and awe-striking; mysterious and frightening. Darkness.....
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posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 10:55 PM by egsankara
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Draw lesson from NADD and address demands of democratic change
The Executive Committee of the United Democratic Party [UK Chapter] has reviewed PDOIS’s Public Notice of 15th August 2010 and noticed that PDOIS didn’t disagree with our position that NADD was designed to be an alliance as per the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding [MOU] that established it...
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posted on Sunday, August 29, 2010 5:46 PM by egsankara
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Echo's La Guinea Watch
Second round of election a watershed in Guinea’s journey
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APA - Dakar (Senegal) 8-28-2010
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The African Renaissance Forum (FORA,) an organisation based in Europe and gathering intellectuals from Africa and the Diaspora has called on Guineans to create the conditions for the "good organisation" on 19 September, of the second round of the country’s presidential elections.
In a statement copied to APA on Friday, the Forum also invited “Guineans brothers and sisters (…) to follow the advices provide...
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posted on Saturday, August 28, 2010 11:21 AM by egsankara
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U.S. Senate proposes withholding critical Aid to Gambia
--Hinges on release of political prisoners
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By Mathew K Jallow, Associate Editor
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The United States Senate has proposed withholding financial aid The Gambia desperately needs to keep the government functioning. The proposal is contained in a foreign aid Bill for the fiscal year 2010-2011. The funds proposed for withholding form part of a package......
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posted on Friday, August 27, 2010 12:47 AM by egsankara
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Not a good place for a country to be in
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By Mathew K Jallow, Associate Editor
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Take stupid, mix it with ignorance, add dumb, add moron, and flavor it with crazy; what you get is Yahya Jammeh and Mustapha Carayol, and everyone working with Jammeh in a decision-making capacity. Yahya Jammeh has evidently become practiced...
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posted on Thursday, August 26, 2010 11:46 PM by egsankara
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Breaking News
President Jammeh gives D3million dowry to new wife
--Dispatches memo to all foreign missions
By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief
EXACTLY two months to our scoop that Gambia’s megalomaniac Head of state, Yahya Jammeh, weds Ms. Alima Sallah (The Gambia Echo June 14, 2010), and the shameful silence and indignation that greeted our report, we report yet again, based on the veracity of our unimpeachable sources, that President Jammeh gives three million Gambian dalasis ($125,000 US dollars) as traditional dowry to his bride, Alima Sallah.
Alima Sallah, 18, Gambia's new First Lady
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posted on Saturday, August 21, 2010 6:05 AM by egsankara
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Echo’s La Guinea Watch
BOUBACAR DIALLO, Associated Press Writer
CONAKRY, Guinea (AP)
Cellou Dalien Diallo at The U.N.
Guinea's interim prime minister said Sunday he's not backing a candidate in next month's historic presidential run-off election despite allegations he favors the underdog and is trying to manipulate the outcome...
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posted on Monday, August 23, 2010 7:54 AM by egsankara
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Commentary
We are all Gambians, and will remain so, and that is all that counts
By Mathew K Jallow, Associate Editor
The recent outbursts of often vexing, but always internecine diatribes between the two polar opposite nemesis; UDP’S unofficial representatives, and PDOIS and its Diaspora proxies, like all their previous bursts....
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posted on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 1:17 PM by egsankara
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Dear Editor,
I am writing in response to Badou Samba’s letter of 8th August 2010 which was published in your medium. This letter was supposedly meant to refute statements made in the UDP-UK Press Release. However, the UDP-UK statement...
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posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 9:02 PM by egsankara
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Editorial
We cannot allow laws undermine our politics and electoral process
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By Mathew K Jallow, Associate Editor
A line in a stanza of Book 9 of Homer’s “The Iliad”; reads as follows: Injustice, swift, erect, and unconfined, sweeps the wide earth, and tramples o’er mankind. The Iliad, an epic story...
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posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 1:28 PM by egsankara
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By Karamba Touray
Have you ever wondered what the typical profile of a person that shows up at any of Yahya Jammeh's orchestrated events be it politically driven events such as public rallies, televised loyalty buying sessions...
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posted on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 9:59 PM by egsankara
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By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong
The flowering of The African Century, as a material progress scheme, is also an enlightenment struggle. Most African elites have not thought about this despite their cultural obstacles wheeling around them that have asphyxiated...
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posted on Monday, August 09, 2010 1:00 PM by egsankara
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UDP/UK'S PRESS RELEASE TO HALIFA SALLAH IS MALICIOUS
By Badou Samba
I am calling on Lawyer Darboe to resign. It is imperative to note that you can't nail marmalade against the wall.Time have changed and self proclaimed UDP/UK can't hold Gambians or sincere UDP Supporters and PDOIS at ransom.It is entirely inexcusable , however, ......
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posted on Monday, August 09, 2010 12:50 PM by egsankara
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By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong
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It is human, and wise, that hand washing and general sanitation campaigns are heightened Ghana-wide. It borders on morality, too. Across Ghana, the sanitation situation isn’t good. That makes it instructive that in Ghana’s Upper East Region 14 junior ...
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posted on Monday, August 09, 2010 12:25 PM by egsankara
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By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong
Despite receiving little media coverage, Ghana’s President Atta Mills’ short stop-over on his way to the just ended 15th Ordinary Session of African Union in Kampala, Uganda in the isolated Central ....
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posted on Monday, August 09, 2010 12:13 PM by egsankara
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Dear Editor,
I presume you are fine this weekend, if so to God be the Glory. First and foremost, I love my beloved country The Gambia; secondly I love our dear kind-hearted president. A lot of things are going on in this country that I don't like. First, I tried to get the contact...
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posted on Tuesday, August 03, 2010 9:29 PM by egsankara
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On the 26th June 2010, the spokesperson of PDOIS and former flag-bearer of the National Alliance for Democracy and Development, NADD; Mr. Halifa Sallah, in a response to the UDP leader’s statement to the recently concluded Jarra Soma Congress, that the registration of NADD as a political party was...
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posted on Tuesday, August 03, 2010 8:58 PM by egsankara
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Commentary
We are
losing jobs, as tourism declines by 30% over the past decade
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By Mathew K Jallow, Associate Editor
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A story about a Serahule businessman whose property was demolished by the regime two weeks ago, inspired last week’s article on The Gambia’s economy. But this week, it is the PDOIS unveiling of Agenda 2011, and the disclosure relating to our children’s education....
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posted on Tuesday, August 03, 2010 5:30 PM by egsankara
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Share credit for victory, deliver on their mandate
By Karamba Touray
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For the past two election cycles, UDP and PDOIS notwithstanding, their identical commitments to democracy, freedom, liberty and the rule of law have been unsuccessful in forging a workable electoral arrangement to usher in change. The reasons...
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posted on Monday, August 02, 2010 1:29 PM by egsankara
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Dr Fox says...
“Extreme justice is an extreme injury: for we ought not to approve of those terrible laws that make the smallest offences capital, nor of that opinion of the Stoics that makes all crimes equal; as if there were no difference to be made between the killing (of) a man and the taking (of) his purse, between which, if we examine things impartially, there is no likeness nor proportion .” ~— Sir Thomas More in Utopia, Bk 1. (1516)
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