The Verdict: An Indictment of a Perfidious Justice System

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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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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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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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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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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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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 11^th. 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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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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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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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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