Breaking News

Col. Gibril Bojang likely to face Economic Crime charges

$2.5millions, guns and uniforms reportedly missing

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief

Barely a week after his disgraceful demotion to the rank of private, humiliating arrest and detention at the Gambia’s Mile II Prisons (Africa’s hell on earth), the details are now emerging that close to $2.5million,US allegedly went missing at the Presidential Palace during Colonel Gibril Bojang’s tenure as Presidential Guard’s Commander.

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Gambia Moral Congress Expresses Soldarity With UDP

GMC congratulates the UDP on a successful rally held in Serekunda, and expresses full solidarity with Mr. Femi Peters, and the Leadership of the Party. GMC shares the conviction of UDP to take the case of The Gambia directly to The Gambian peoples, and to be accorded equal treatment in this process like the APRC. We vehemently condemn the unreasonable and unjustifiable denial of the right of UDP to hold a political rally by IGP Badgie. We hold Yaya Jammeh personally responsible for such denial of constitutional rights.

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President Jammeh’s Plane in trouble again

Press Release from State House

The release reads:
The general public is hereby informed that the state visit to Qatar which His Excellency the President of the Republic Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh had to make from 25-26th October 2009 has been cancelled.

A.M. Sallah, Secretary General

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The End Game: Yahya Jammeh’s Strategic Blunders

By Mathew K Jallow, Madison Wisconsin

Recently, the metaphorically dour and dank pages of The Daily Observer carried yet one more of those ridiculous propaganda letters praising Yahya Jammeh for his U.N. speech. But, what Mariama Jallow, the ghost letter writer, did not know, was that Jammeh’s lame speech, impassionate, and characteristically bereft of ideas and substance, was delivered in an empty U.N. Conference

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Disagreement with Echo Editorials

By Samsudeen Sarr Newark, New Jersey 

My busy schedule last week wouldn’t allow me to write but I certainly had some comments to make over your editorial(s) discussing the four reported dead military recruits at Fajara Barracks during a Basic Fitness Test (BFT). I think it was the kind of quintessential subject reporters could have used to educate future prospective recruits about the dangers of BFT instead of merely exploiting the tragedy to vent out the usual anti-Jammed rhetoric that renders

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A Diary from Home Part II

By Tijan Nimaga, New York

Serekunda market woman, The Gambia

After a warm welcome from every family member and friends, I wasted no time going to bed. The beautiful Gambian night life coupled with noise from neighbors added more joy to my first night at home. For nearly twenty years this kind of spiritual night life was absent from my immigrant life in the United Sates. While in bed I stared at the ceiling and began to enjoy the wonderful melody from the crickets as they compete. As a school boy, I hated their irritating

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Gambia atop of worst human rights states in West Africa

The Horn was again the African region with the most press freedom violations. Eritrea (175th), where no independent media is tolerated and 30 journalists are in prison (as many as in China or Iran but with a much smaller population), was ranked last in the world for the third year running. Somalia (164th), which is steadily being emptied of its journalists, was the world’s deadliest country for the media, with six journalists killed between 1 January and 4 July.

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Echo Editorial

Jammeh the rascal vs. the good for nothing Generals

 By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief

 Bizarre beasts and mad men was how I characterised the recent visit of Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh with a delegation of diplomatic nincompoops to the just concluded United Nations General Assembly session in New York. For who in his right mind will walk into someone’s living room in a sweltering summer afternoon in the south Bronx, claiming to be on a mission to combat Yahya Jammeh’s enemies?

Afang Iblis comes to town

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African Human Rights Commission blasts Yahya Jammeh

In an unprecedented development, the Banjul headquartered “The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Commission)” has characterised as deteriorating the shameful human rights situation in The Gambia, the very nation that hosts this important chapter of the African Union and mandated  to monitor, promote and protect human and peoples’ rights on the Continent.

Gambia's shameless Sheikh, a notorious womaniser and callous killer 

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Breaking News

 4 Military Recruits Die at Fajara Barracks

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief             

According to highly placed military sources, four military recruits died at the Fajara Military Depot early this week and to date, the state is concealing the information from the public. Reveals our indefatigable military affairs operative, Officer “X” (a.k.a OX), “four young military recruits collapsed and died later at the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital (RVTH) in Banjul and until now, the Jammeh regime is concealing the information.”

Yahya Jammeh, Gambia's Mad Defence Minister

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Breaking News

President Jammeh Imposes Midnight Curfew On Gambia

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief             

Unimpeachable sources close to the corridors of state power, say that Gambian President Yahya Jammeh intends to impose a midnight curfew on the West African state. According to our State House operative Kissy Kissy Mansa, effective immediately, any woman found on the streets after 12:00am will be arrested and detained and any man found outside at

This local man uses culture to express his freedom but now, the Gambian leader wants to seize all our freedoms.

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Commentary

Shocking Purge of The Gambia Armed Forces
 
 
By Lt. Colonel Samsudeen Sarr (Rtd.)

Like many people, I was equally baffled by what drove President Jammeh to take such a drastic move towards special members of The Gambia Armed forces including, the Chief of Defense Staff (CDS) General Lang Tombong Tamba. But since the details are still scanty, I will make my comments really brief for now.  Finding the right answers to all the questions will however remain elusive as long as the entire facts are not yet made public.

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Breaking News

Gambian Woman, Rohie Kah, Dies Tragically

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief

Exactly at 1pm today, Rohie Kah, a 37-year-old Gambian Registered Nurse and mother of three died following brain complications. Kah, who reportedly visited the Weston MedSpa in Weston Florida for a procedure to remove cellulite and stretch marks, was to be ferried to the local Weston Hospital in Broward County after she was declared brain dead.

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Bombshell at Gambia National Army: Army Chief Tamba Tumbles with 4 others

BY Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief

In an unprecedented move, The Gambia’s autocratic Head of state, Yahya Jammeh, apparently angered by decrepit living conditions of the soldiers at Yundum’s ill-fated Army barracks, has sacked the West African country’s army chief, Major General Lang Tombong Tamba. Major General Tamba tumbles with four others.

The Dictator Vs. The General.

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Guinea Conakry’s political tragedy:
How to heal and forge ahead
 
Dear Editor,

 Last week’s tragic events in Guinea Conakry have generated serious debate over the circumstances surrounding the unfortunate crisis. At any rate, despite Captain Camara’s assertions of clearly distancing himself from the bloody showdown which according to reports has as many as over hundred civilians shot and killed by members of his security forces, most critics tend to believe that it was after all, his responsibility or fault.

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Breaking News

Five APRC MPs in detention over false information to President Jammeh

According to highly placed sources, five National Assembly Members (NAMs) of the ruling APRC party are currently detained by Banjul police following a petition they allegedly wrote to President Jammeh against North Bank Region Governor, Edwarr Seckan. Following that petition Seckan was arrested back in July 2009 and subsequently detained at the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) headquarters in Banjul.

North Bank's Voodoo Governor, Edwarr Seckan

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