Where Yahya Jammeh Gets his Fake Degrees and Titles?

By Mathew K Jallow, Associate Editor

Ever wondered where Yahya Jammeh gets all the bogus doctor and professor degree titles from? Well, wonder no more. I got the answer for you. See, I was Googling to find some biographical information about Yahya Jammeh’s wife on the Internet, but instead, it led me to this so-called institute in Raleigh, North Carolina; American Biographical

Gambia's fake professor, Yahya Jammeh  in borrowed robes

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Pap Saine & Sam Sarr, doyen of Gambia press corps, enter robust defence

In the high profile case involving seven Gambian journalists, now sixth, after one of them– Mr. Abubacarr Saidykhan was acquitted and discharged yesterday, editors Pap Saine and Sam Sarr publishers of The Point and Foroyaa Newspapers respectively, testified this morning, Thursday 30 July 2009 before Justice Emmanuel Fagbenle of the Banjul High Court.

Pap Saine & Sam Sarr, doyen of Gambia press corps 

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Gambia Moral Congress Party asks President Jammeh to Resign over illegal remarks

DUE to fundamental matters of state bordering on human rights and national security, GMC deems it important to respond to the issues raised by President Jammeh in his GRTS interview of 22^nd July 2009, with Mr. Kebba Dibba. Our reaction is based on the contents of the printed copy of the said interview as reported in the Foroyaa Newspaper, which the President has not denied.

Yahya Jammeh, Gambia's callous leader

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Journalists open their defence, four testified

Four Gambia Press Union (GPU) members who were charged with publishing seditious publication and conspiracy to publish seditious materials testified before Banjul High Court judge- Emmanuel Fagbele today Wednesday, 29 July 2009. All the five accused persons, namely Mr. Ebrima Sawaneh who started his testimony yesterday

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President’s threats leave journalists no room for free expression

Reporters Without Borders is very concerned about the seven journalists, all members of the Gambia Press Union, who are being tried for criticising President Yahya Jammeh. The verdict in the trial, held partly behind closed doors, could be issued today, just a week after Jammeh said outspoken journalists would be dealt with “severely.”

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Breaking News

Ebrima Sarr’s body found in burning mini-van

BY MICHAEL FLYNN

Police are searching for any clues that might help them solve a case of a minivan fire and burned body. There are no immediate signs of foul play in the death of a person found in a burning vehicle in Bethesda, Maryland.

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Food For Thought for UK Letter Writer/Gambian Farmer on Agricultural Subsidies

 By Jallobeh Hamadi Maatong

Our “Gambian Farmer” with twenty-plus years of hands on experience has not answered my key question. Where is the money for wholesale crop subsidies in The Gambia coming from? Our “farmer” may be that proverbial farmer from Niamina Jareng that has made so much headway in rice production that he can afford annual trips to the UK to wine and dine at the Sherlock Holmes Hotel.

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Center for Democracy & Development Blasts Jammeh Government

PRESS STATEMENT ON THE GAMBIAN HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION

The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) a leading non-governmental organization working within the West African sub-region has observed with great concern the appalling abuse of human rights and freedoms in The Gambia in recent years especially following the alleged foiled coup of March 2006 against President Yahya AJJ Jammeh who gained power in 1994 via a military coup but has been elected President in 1996 and has amended the Gambian constitution in 1997 to remove tenure limits.

Justice Joseph Wowo, Jammeh's Spineless Judge

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Breaking News

In Uneding Witch-hunt, Pap Saine faces Criminal Charges Anew

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor- in-Chief

In what could be characterized as a shameful display of bravado, blatant witch-hunting and tacit approval of a deficient legal apparatus in The Gambia, Reuters’ Central and West Africa dean and Managing Editor of the Banjul-based The Point newspaper, Mr. Pap Saine, is to appear before the Banjul High Court on bogus charges of false publications that were quashed on April 9, 2009. Says Kissy Mansa, Saine has been told to appear before Nigerian born wanting jurist, Justice Joseph Wowo on Monday July 27, 2009.

Justice Joseph Wowo and Yahya Jammeh, fraternal twins of evil

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Saints Alumni In Atlanta, Georgia Prepares for Fr. Joseph A. Gough

Gambians, friends of The Gambia and the Saints Ex-pupils residing in Atlanta Metro area are in full gear for the visit of Fr. Joseph A. Gough, Ambassador at-large for The Republic of The Gambia, a status conferred on him by  Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh in recognition of the great work he did in The Gambia.

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Yahya Jammeh, Gambia's callous leader

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Press Release
Sang Marie 2009 Announcements
The Gambia Christian People’s Association now renamed, The Gambia Christian Organization (GCO) is again poised to celebrate its Annual Atlanta, Georgia Sang Marie festivities on Saturday the 15th of August 2009. This year will mark sixteen years of bringing Gambians from all over the US, Europe and The Gambia to celebrate the Feast of the Patron Saint of the Catholic Diocese of Banjul and the Mother of our Lord, Jesus Christ.

Father Joseph Gough & UN Ambassador Susan Ogoo

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Dozens Demonstrate in London Against Yahya Jammeh’s Dictatorship

 By Abdoukarim Sanneh, London

London, UK- Dozens of protesters marched in a demonstration outside The Gambia High Commission in London as part of international day of action organised in three continents to stand up against Yahya Jammeh’s reign of terror in The Gambia.  

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New Yorkers Demonstrate Against Gambian Dictator, Yahya Jammeh  

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief

In the mounting demonstrations against the utterly despicable dictatorship of Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh some significant progress is being registered as evident in the pictures taken during the global day of action held before the Gambian Permanent Representative at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. 

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Breaking News

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief

Unimpeachable sources reaching The Gambia Echo say Justice Joseph Wowo, the errant judge presiding over the case of Gambia’s seven journalists, has been replaced. This according to our unassailable sources follows a terse petition by the defence team to the Chief Justice that Justice Wowo was acting prejudicial and should be recused from the case.

Justice Joseph Wowo and Yahya Jammeh, fraternal twins of evil

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July 22^nd. and Yahya Jammeh’s Tragic Legacy

By Mathew K. Jallow, Associate Editor

Libya’s dictator, Momar Ghaddafi, is in town, and up in Kanilai Village, nearly hundred miles south of the capital Banjul, cattle are slaughtered for the feast of a lifetime. But the feast will not be complete without mixing Bakau in the equation. True to form, Bakau did not disappoint, as Independence Stadium sprang to life where bright florescence lighting flood the grounds below in resplendence glory.

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Movement for Democracy & Development praises Amnesty for staging Gambia Global Day of Action

Movement for Democracy and Development Joins Amnesty International’s Global Day of Action and Demands for the Restoration of Genuine Democracy and Justice in The Gambia:

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For Gambians, “July 22”-A Day of Infamy

Like the unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbour against U. S sovereignty by the Imperial army of Japan, July 22^nd 1994 will be remembered in Gambian history as a Day of Infamy. On this date, fifteen brutal years ago, a dour epoch of impunity was foisted upon a peace loving peoples.

GMC National Executive Chairman, Mai N.K. Fatty

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Commentary

Barack Obama and Africans’ mindset

**By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong, Ottawa, Canada

As various editorialists and commentators throughout Africa have analyzed the substance of US President Barack Obama’s Accra policy statement on Africa on July 12 wasn’t new. What was new was Obama’s metaphysics, the bold unto-your-face manner, the ambience, the level of confidence, the psychological import, and the attempts to hit home a new mindset for Africa’s development.

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The Gambia Echo's Associate Editor, Mathew K. Jallow recently wrote a powerful letter to Ghanaian Head of state, Professor John Atta Mills on the liquidation of over 55 West African immigrants mostly Ghanaians and copied it to several Ghanaian newspapers.

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Amnesty International USA

Global Day of Action for The Gambia:

The Gambia is a country with an appalling history of human rights abuses. Citizens, in particular human rights defenders and journalists, are routinely subjected to human rights violations, such as unlawful arrests and detention, torture, unfair trials, harassment, assaults, death threats, and closures, making it extremely difficult to do their work.

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Breaking News

As Coup Speculation Gathers Momentum, 45 Soldiers Arrested

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief

Highly placed and unimpeachable sources report to The Gambia Echo that close to 50 soldiers have been arrested by the Jammeh regime following mounting speculations that a military coup was imminent. Says our indefatigable Kissy Kissy Mansa, up to 20 soldiers were picked up from the Bakau Military Camp yesterday and detained at undisclosed locations.

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COMMENTARY

The Ground is Shifting under Yahya Jammeh, Finally

By Mathew K. Jallow, Associate Editor

The didactic demonstrations by the GPU-U.K against the Jammeh regime in London, the swanky meeting of the Gambia Moral Congress in Dakar, Senegal, the nonchalant but surprise rejection of job offers from Jammeh’s regime by Gambians, the panel of nifty barristers led by lawyer Antouman Gaye as defendants of the GPU 7, the attendance of the GPU 7 hearing by the needlessly timid opposition leader Ousainou Darboe, and Barry Wells, U.S

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GMC Picks Momentum in Dakar, Senegal

Gambia Moral Congress Senegal Chapter is Born

PRESS RELEASE

After consultations among ourselves concerning the need to take active part in the public affairs of our beloved motherland, The Gambia, a number of us Gambians resident in Senegal resolved to confer our unflinching support to The Gambia Moral Congress and it’s Leader.

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Bojang Kunda Family Expresses Appreciations

The Bojang Kunda family of Brikama Sukuta Kunda in the Western Region wishes to thank all those who have participated in the repatriation of the late Kebba Lambo Bojang’s dead body to his native Gambia. Bojang died last week in Wisconsin in the United States. We are very grateful for the kind gesture and love you have demonstrated toward your fellow Muslim brother.

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Nigerian Judge Sends 7 Gambian Journalists to Mile II Prisons

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In- Chief

Predictably, the seven Gambian journalists who were rounded up and detained at the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and later granted bail by the Kanifing Magistrates’ Court on sedition charges a week ago; have been remanded at the maximum-security wing of the most dreaded prison in Africa-Mile II Central Prisons.

Foroyaa Editor Sam Sarr & The Point's Editor, Pap Saine  

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Dear Editor,

Following the publication last week of a letter addressed to ECOWAS boss and copied to several heads of regional and international organizations, which listed the names of some journalists I wrongly characterized as exiles of the ruthless Jammeh regime, I received a few reactionary complaints from a few journalists extricating themselves from the list.

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Pap Saine, Sam Sarr & 5 others to appear before High Court on Sedition Charges

The trial of seven Gambian journalists accused of publishing with “seditious intention” will now continue at a High Court in Banjul instead of the Kanifing court where the trial began. On July 1, 2009, the accused, four newspaper journalists and three executives of the Gambian Press Union (GPU) were summoned to appear on July 3, instead of the original adjourned date of July 7.

Foroyaa Editor Sam Sarr & The Point's Editor, Pap Saine

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Commentary

A Horrible End or An End to Jammeh’s Madness

By Ousainou Mbenga, Maryland

In a span of 15 years, the AFPRC-APRC continues to rule with complete disregard for law and against the peaceful aspirations of the vast majority of Gambians. The rule of force resulting in murder, unrivaled corruption and an escalating uncertainty for a decent life has been the order of the day in The Gambia.

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