Breaking News: Gambia’s Powerful Diplomat, Lamin Sabi Sanyang Arrested, Under Police Detention

By EBRIMA G. SANKAREH, Editor-In-Chief

Unimpeachable and unassailable sources from the office of the Gambian president say that President Jammeh’s confidant and probably the West African nation’s most powerful diplomat (financial attaché), Lamin Sabi Sanyang, is languishing behind police cells at Banjul’s force headquarters.  

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Diplomat Lamin Sabi Sanyang, in police detention, in Banjul

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An Open Letter: Dr. Susan E. Rice, U. S. Ambassador to The United Nations (designate)

By MATHEW K. JALLOW, Associate Editor

Dr. Susan E. Rice, U.S. Ambassador Designate to the United Nations

C/O President-Elect Barack Obama

Transition Headquarters

Chicago, Illinois

Dear Dr. Susan E. Rice:

To begin with, we hope that you find time to read and digest the information contained in this letter. First, we wish to congratulate you on your recent nomination as United States Ambassador to The United Nations. During the presidential campaign, there was hope and expectation among those of us who have followed your career over the past decade and half, that Mr. Barack Obama will eventually nominate you as Secretary of State in his future cabinet. 

Dr. Susan E. Rice

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Breaking News: Gambia Government Issues Over 100 Diplomatic Passports to Foreign Nationals

-Among them Moroccans, Sudanese, Cassamance rebels, Guinean Drug barons and Mercenaries

By EBRIMA G. SANKAREH, Editor-In-Chief

Unassailable sources nestled within the corridors of state power reveal that in the past year alone, the autocratic government of President Yahya Jammeh has issued well over 100 Gambian diplomatic passports to very dubious foreign nationals with worrisome credentials. A highly placed source in the Foreign Ministry says most of the passports were issued to belligerents in the Cassamance debacle, hardcore fighters for the independence of Senegal’s southern region.

Abdourahman Cole is Acting Gambian ambassador in Washington, DC

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Nopin Long Distance Launches ‘Nopin Africa’

First we announce a New Year’s special for all calls to Africa. When you recharge by phone from December 30th 2008 to January 1st 2009, you receive 10% bonus minutes on the amount spent. The 10% bonus can only be redeemed through our Customer Service Center @ 1-800-503-8622. This special offer ends January 1st at 10:00 PM. So mark it down, call our Customer Service at 1-800-503-8622.

South African Beauty Queen Nyasha Zimucha Wins Miss Africa 2008-09 Contest Sponsored by Nopin Long Distance  

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ANALYSIS

Coup in Guinea: Implications for The Gambia

By MATHEW K. JALLOW, Associate Editor

It has only been a week since General Lansana Conte, the man who ruled Guinea with an iron-fist for the better part of the past two and half decades, passed away, but his death was completely upstaged by the military coup in that country. The takeover by Guinea’s military was, however, somewhat predictable and somehow inevitable. The writing had been on the wall for the entire duration of Mr. Conte’s imperial reign, yet, not a single African Head of State, ever once denounced that regime’s brutal reign of terror.

Cpt. Moussa D. Camara, Guinea's New Ruler

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ANALYSIS

Programmed Retardation

By Professor FLOYD W. HAYES, III

Senior Lecturer, The John Hopkins University, Department of Political Science

 The concept of “programmed retardation” comprises policies, programs, and instructional practices designed to guarantee educational failure for students. Significantly, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s momentous Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954, education strategies originally implemented to deny quality education to many black students began an overall decline of America’s public schools in both urban and suburban areas.

Professor FLOYD W. HAYES, III

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Military Coup Follows Death of Guinea’s Autocratic

'Life President';

Who is Next?

BY LT. COL. SAMSUDEEN SARR (Rtd.)

Before detailing my opinion on this subject I will first express my sincere condolences to the family of the late President Lansana Conte and the people of Guinea following his death on Monday, December 22, 2008.  It is sad to add that two weeks ago when his deteriorating health was reported to have reached an alarming state, members of his government refused to acknowledge the facts.

Cpt. Moussa D. Camara, Guinea's New Ruler

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The Gambia: Towards Food Self-Sufficiency

By **JALLOBEH HAMADI MAATONG

 Mr. Editor,

Please allow me space in your esteemed newspaper to respond to the Daily Observer’s editorial on the above captioned subject. I do not wish to quote any statistics on food production, external trade, and gross domestic product, the external and domestic debt and household economics in The Gambia, since such data is readily available to all. In this piece, I am by no means attempting to put down our beloved country that in no small measure has provided us with the foundation to attain the level of education that many of us have today.

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History of Banjul’s St.Augustine’s High School, The Gambia

By Wakerr Labbeh

Below is probably, the only original copy of The History of St. Augustine’s High School up to 1983 as was written by the late Father Michael Flynn Cssp. Most of the information herein was found archived at the School and also The Mission House at Hagan Street. “Wakerr Labbeh” picked it up from 1978 to 1983 and we did not miss a bit. This document is for every alumnus’s archive. Written by Fr. Michael J. Flynn CSSp and produced in the School Newspaper ‘Sunu-Kibaro’. Includes information up to 1983.

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