There are reasons to celebrate the “July 22 Revolution” and remember President Yahya Jammeh in a simple way. This may be with national prayers in churches and mosques to heal and reconcile a divided and polarized nation, to move on from the whole aspect of nation-building, or to give it[Read More…]
Year: 2019
New York Letter With Alagi Yorro Jallow: There’s Nothing Wrong In Peaceful Protest!!!
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”― John F. Kennedy Dear Fatoumata, Let us sing a song. “Rosa sat / So Martin could walk / Martin walked / So Barack could run / Barack ran / He ran, and he won so that all our children[Read More…]
Supreme Court Tosses Ex-Finance Minister’s Attempts To Have Criminal Record Expunged
A former Gambian Finance minister who was jailed in the previous regime of Yahya Jammeh has lost his fight to get his criminal record expunged. Amadou Sanneh, national treasurer of the opposition United Democratic (UDP), was in 2013 convicted by special criminal court judge of sedition and sentenced to up[Read More…]