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The Verdict: An Indictment of a Perfidious Justice System
By Mathew K. Jallow, Associate Editor
The verdict is finally in, but there are no winners only losers. In question, is the sagaciousness of the entire judicial process, which led to the harsh conviction handed down to Fatou Jaw- Manneh. But at play, however, is the protracted and abstruse Kangaroo trial that embodies the disdain and mortifying hatred the Jammeh regime harbors towards the free press and free speech. But,
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posted on Thursday, August 21, 2008 2:04 AM by egsankara
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A Pro-Gov’t. Court Banks Yahya Jammeh US$12,000
BY TIJAN NIMAGA, New York Bureau Chief
It has always been said that “justice delayed is justice denied” and nothing can be further from the inherent truth in that profound statement. Since the libel trial against Fatou Jaw Manneh, a U S based Gambian journalist began a year ago; almost everyone in The Gambia knew that the verdict in her case would never be fair. The verdict on Fatou’s case has provoked the most basic tenets of our Constitutional foundations and threatens our way of life especially, us journalists.
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posted on Thursday, August 21, 2008 1:48 AM by egsankara
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Press Releases on Fatou Jaw Manneh’s Conviction
STGDP PRESS RELEASE
The unjust conviction of Fatou Jaw Manneh today by Magistrate Buba Jawo is seen by the STGDP as a conviction against all Gambians in the Diaspora and a total disregard for the constitution and the rule of law. The very magistrate that said he did not have the jurisdiction to hear the case barefacedly buckled under pressure and called the case for the state. This verdict demonstrates the total erosion of democracy and the rule of law in the Gambia.
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posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2008 8:05 AM by egsankara
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News Just In: Magistrate Jawo Convicts Journalist F.J.Manneh to 4 Years
Predictably, after one and a half-year of a protracted legal saga over jurisdiction, today Magistrate Buba Jawo shamelessly rendered gross injustice by convicting US based Gambian journalist Fatou Jaw Manneh. As our correspondents work out the legal details of the conviction, it is understood that she had the option of paying a $12,000 fine.

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posted on Monday, August 18, 2008 1:29 PM by egsankara
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Breaking News: United Nations & ECOWAS Investigate Deaths of Ghanaians in The Gambia
By EBRIMA G. SANKAREH Editor-In-Chief
It all began in July 2005 when the autocratic regime of President Yahya Jammeh allegedly acting on a fake intelligence report that a team of well-armed West African mercenaries was destined to it shores to seize power and restore democracy and the rule of law, that it rounded up several dozens African immigrants in the Senegalese border post of Amdalaye and in brake neck speed, drove to Barra village in The Gambia’s North Bank Division, 7 sea miles off the capital, Banjul.

Ambassador Curtis Ward in charge
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posted on Saturday, August 16, 2008 3:07 AM by egsankara
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Sheikh Hassan Cisse:A Rara Avis Scholar Dies at 63
By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor In-Chief
The Gambia Echo Newspaper joins the millions of Muslims and non-Muslims who mourn the sudden death of Senegalese born multi-lingual Islamic scholar, Imam Sheikh Hassan Cisse; a tireless and erudite educator, a charismatic and affable communicator, a humble humanist and phenomenal philanthropist who passed away Wednesday.

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posted on Friday, August 15, 2008 9:22 AM by egsankara
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It is Official: Gambians have become Yahya Jammeh’s Slaves
By MATHEW K. JALLOW, Associate Editor
Hundreds of volunteers descended on Kanilai in response to Yahya Jammeh’s call for help on his farm, cried The Daily Observer Monday August 11th. 2008 headline. That so many did so after The Daily Observer editorials hit the stands last week was not unexpected, what was surprising was that the bulk of these respondents are career civil servants who include some of our top bureaucrats.

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posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 5:34 PM by egsankara
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DISCLAIMER
By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief
A Gambian resident in the United States has on June 27, 2008 sent a fax message to the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration Department (UDI), Asylum Department claiming that The Gambia Echo’s Editor-In Chief, Ebrima G. Sankareh purportedly wrote it. In the letter, the impersonator claimed that a Gambian currently seeking political asylum was Editor Sankareh’s brother and was seeking asylum after he was accused of sourcing our stories.
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posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 1:55 PM by egsankara
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Jammeh- Hero
Or Human Butcher? July 22, 1994 Coup- What Did We Learn?
By NYANCHO, Stockholm Sweden
For the past fourteen years, The Gambia, a once prosperous and democratically promising entity within the annual Human Quality Index’s projections, with human and intellectual resources to propel the tiny Republic into a bastion of fruitful and contributive power in the sub region, suddenly collapsed registering and lengthening the sequence of so-called failed states in contemporary history of the post colonial, and perhaps the last monarchial type of state under the pretext of African democracy.

KEBBA SANNEH, NYANCHO
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posted on Monday, August 11, 2008 4:27 AM by egsankara
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In Memory Of Comrade Adama Faburay
1950 – 2008
Comrade Adama Faburay was a breccia of goodness and generosity throughout his life; personal qualities that remained inviolable despite the aggressive
cancer that snatched him away on Thursday July 24. Like a huge hole sliced in the sky, Comrade Adama’s transition precipitated a gaping emptiness, a landscape without geography; an emptiness that gulps our collective sorrow and evokes a miserable and incessant brooding about life, about death, about the mission to liberate and about the struggle that will outlast us all, his mourning comrades.

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posted on Sunday, August 10, 2008 5:44 AM by egsankara
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Dr Fox says...

“Find out just what the people will submit to and you have found
out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon
them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words
or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the
endurance of those whom they oppress.” ~ Frederick douglass
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