(JollofNews) – President Buhari of Nigeria was due in The Gambia on Wednesday 11th January 2017 to meet with President Jammeh of The Gambia. The main business of the meeting was to persuade Jammeh to vacate the Presidency and allow President-Elect Barrow’s Inauguration on the 19th of January 2017. President[Read More…]
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London Letter:Sam Sarr Farts Shamelessly
(JollofNews) – My Dear Peace-Loving Gambians, please ignore Sam Sarr. He is simply jumping up and down likely a circus monkey and making so much noise – because he wants his boss Yahya jammeh to throw him some more rotten bananas! Speaking as a “foreigner” (like that ECOWAS, Senegal, the AU,[Read More…]
London Letter: Don’t Let Solo Sandeng Down! Fear Must GO!
(JollofNews) – I was just browsing the news this peaceful morning in Notting Hill, London, when I saw a certain Omar Njie, who wrote a piece on Amadou Samba for the online media being threatened – exactly in the same language that Pa Nderry M’bai of Freedomnewspaper was threatened a[Read More…]
London Letter: FJC – Gambia’s Lady MacBeth!
(JollofNews) – Gambians and friends have more important things to think about than Fatoumata Jahumpa-Ceesay’s (FJC) rants. I have just sent more money to Gambia for family to buy food to store in case of trouble – like almost all Gambians in the Diaspora are doing. And just this morning[Read More…]
London Letter: Jammeh’s Guns Face The the Spirit of the Living God
(JollofNews) – “The Spirit of the Lord is on me … he has sent me to proclaim freedom … (to enable) the blind to see … to set the oppressed free”. Luke 4:18 For 22 years Yahya Jammeh, self-proclaimed “Dictator of The Gambia” has terrorised and frightened the lives out[Read More…]
London Letter: Where Is My Uncle The Silent Banjulian!
(JollofNews) – Please help me send out an SoS to my uncle in Banjul. It is unusual, highly so. My uncle the Silent Banjulian is the Minister of Information in the cabinet of Out-Going President Yahya Jammeh. And yet, we have not heard from the Minister of Information since before[Read More…]
London Letter: Mad, Bad, Samsudeen Sarr!
(JollofNews) – “Mentally ill as a result of the September 1994 incident”, writes Ebrima Chongan of his then fellow-detainee Sam Sarr. “The incident” Chongan is referring to was the mock execution of Chongan and others at Mile 2 Prison by the AFPRC Vice-Chairman Sana Sabally, Edward Singhateh, Hydara and Yankuba[Read More…]
London Letter: Jammeh’s Road To The International Criminal Court
(JollofNews) – Today, 23 December 2016, the BBC quotes Out-Going President Jammeh of The Gambia as follows: “I will defend myself, my country, courageously and patriotically and I will win”. This on the day, as the BBC reports, the Economic Community of West Africa’s President announced that a military force led[Read More…]
London Letter: Is Amadou Samba’s Absconding A Bluff?
((JollofNews)- When I first heard the story that Amadou Samba had abandoned Jammeh and is in Dakar, I asked the Gambian friend: “Where is Minister of Information Sheriff Bojang?” As far as we all know, Sheriff is still serving in Jammeh’s government and, I think, there is no way[Read More…]
London Letter: Dangerous Stalemate In Gambia’s Crisis
(JollofNews) – My London newspaper this morning, the Guardian, brings news of the dangerous situation developing in The Gambia. Presidents Macky Sall of Senegal and Hollande of France are quoted as stating clearly that “Jammeh must leave the Presidency in The Gambia” – as the Gambian people voted for the election[Read More…]
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