Gambia ALERT: Police storms The Point newspapers offices

Three police officers in Banjul on February 20, 2009 stormed the offices of the privately owned The Point newspaper and briefly detained all the members of staff present.

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Echo Exclusive Interview with Associate Editor, Mathew K. Jallow

In a rare moment, our Editor-in-Chief, Ebrima G. Sankareh sat down with his long time friend, brother and colleague, MATHEW K. JALLOW, Associate Editor of The Gambia Echo newspaper. A prolific writer and erudite commentator, Mathew K. Jallow has spent the last 30 years as a voice of the voiceless, a crusader for human and people rights and an unyielding and vociferous voice for justice and fair play in Gambian society and everywhere he encountered injustice and foul play.

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RSF Tells President Obama, ‘Yahya Jammeh’s Security Services Highly Suspect in Deyda Hydara’s Murder’

In a strongly worded letter to President Barack H. Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Secretary General of the Paris based press freedom organization, Reporters Without Borders (RFS), Mr. Jean-François Julliard has called for intense pressure on the government of President Yahya Jammeh on the abduction of journalist Chief Ebrima Manneh and the gruesome murder of Point newspaper chief, Deyda Hydara. In pertinent part the letter instructs the Obama administration that: “Pressure needs to be placed on the Gambian government

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Tijan Nimaga Petitions British Foreign Secretary Over Abdou Karim Sanneh’s Detention

February 21, 2009.

Dear Sir,

I would like to thank you for any single minute of your busy schedule and precious time taken to read this letter. On behalf of the numerous voices and the outpouring of support in the form of protests letters from numerous dissidents across the globe as well as reputable human rights organizations, I urge you to kindly stop the deportation proceedings against our colleague, Abdou Karim Sanneh.

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Mathew K. Jallow Protests to UN Secretary General Over Yahya Jammeh’s Witchcraft

Dear Sir,

This protest letter follows a letter addressed to your Honor and copied to various governmental agencies and non-governmental human rights institutions and dignitaries from around the world, and a second letter addressed to Dr. Susan E Rice, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, copied to you and various individuals and institutions.

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Mathew K. Jallow Petitions UK Gov’t.

-Calls Jammeh ‘Brutal Dictator’

In the on-going saga following the detention of Gambian journalist, student activist and human rights crusader, Abdou Karim Sanneh, The Gambia Echo’s Associate Editor Mathew K. Jallow petitions UK Government. In this arresting letter, Jallow reveals in harrowing details the regime’s trail of havoc and destruction ever since coming to power on July 22,1994.

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Breaking News Professor Abdoulaye Saine Protests British Gov’t's.  Intention to Deport Journalist, Abdou Karim Sanneh

In a strongly worded letter, Gambian born American professor of Political Science, Comparative Politics and African Studies, Dr. Abdoulaye Saine warns the British government to abort attempts to deport Gambian journalist and human rights crusader, Abdou Karim Sanneh to his native Gambia. Saine, a foremost expert on The Gambia, is an erudite scholar and only this month has published a treatise on President Jammeh’s harrowing authoritarianism.

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Under His Thumb

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Intergenerational Disconnect

 

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Breaking News Gambian Journalist & Human Rights Crusader Abdou Karim Sanneh Faces Deportation by UK Gov't.

--Dissidents jittery over Karim’s return to Gambia

By EBRIMA G. SANKAREH, Editor-in-Chief

Today, The Gambia Echo reports with deep resentment and well founded fear over the British Government’s intention to deport our colleague, Abdou Karim Sanneh, a prolific Gambian journalist, student activist and human rights crusader who for the past 14 years has been restlessly exposing the utterly criminal character of the Yahya Jammeh government. 

Abdou Karim Sanneh, in detention, in leeds, UK

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Commentary

 Yahya Jammeh: Stranger than Fiction

By Mathew K Jallow, Associate Editor

If any Gambian ever doubted whether Yahya Jammeh is possessed by a chronic inability to think rationally, then the events of two weeks ago ought to put their doubts to rest. But, this is hardly surprising, because throughout history, empirical evidence has shown that people, who hold and wield absolute power, have always tended towards self-destruction.

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh with AIDS infected patient

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Breaking News: As President Jammeh’s bogus claims to rid Gambia of witches intensify, terror rages, over 200 villagers arrested, several tortured, dozens at Mile II Prisons & Kotu Station

By EBRIMA G. SANKAREH, Editor-In-Chief

In what could be described as a trail of terror and gross human rights abuse, The Gambia Echo reports with overwhelming evidence, the mass arrest of villagers at Barra and Essau in The Gambia’s North Bank Division, 7 sea miles off Banjul, the capital. All of them are accused of clairvoyance and or witchcraft. At Barra, 33 were arrested.

Yahya Jammeh, Gambian Head of state

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Breaking News: Father Joseph Gough Talks to The Echo-Exclusive

No sooner had we published a chronicle of the history of Banjul’s Saint Augustine’s High school late last year, than a barrage of emails began hitting our mailbag. In a matter of three days it was saturated with messages filled with nostalgia from past students and good citizens expressing in great detail, their everlasting love, admiration and respect for Father Joseph Gough, a tough Irish Catholic priest who spent over a decade in the mini-West African state both as a missionary and educator.

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Gambian born Yankuba Mamburay publishes book

Gambian born Yankuba Mamburay publishes book: The Search for a Lost Brother. This is a true story about a young man, Yankuba, who was born in a small African farming community. As he grew up he heard about a brother who had traveled far and wide. In the narrator’s community, farm size is determined by the size of the family. So the absence of this brother left a big hole in the family’s structure.

Yankuba Mamburay, author of  Lost Brother

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