The paragraph below in my last paper was misunderstood by certain readers who interpreted it as if I was only talking about 2nd Lt. Sana Sabally; they therefore couldn’t understand how he “didn’t survive the November 11, 1994 counter-coup” and needed further clarification on the topic. This is the paragraph[Read More…]
Year: 2019
New York Letter With Alagi Yorro Jallow: The Gambia At 54: Is it Worth Celebrating Or Not?
The Gambia’s political leadership is weighed in the balance and found wanting since the country gained independence in 1965. Without peaceful power alternation and presidential term limits of fifty-four years, The Gambia has had only three presidents, unlike in the United States where ten presidents served for fifty-four years. What[Read More…]
The Gambia’s July 22nd 1994 Coup d’état – Part Five
Based on the testimony of the police witnesses at the Truth, Reconciliation & Reparations Commission (TRRC) one could notice their common distinctive position of having prior knowledge of the Gambia National Army’s (GNA) overwhelming strength in terms of lethal weaponry that far outmatched that of their entire forces to stand[Read More…]