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Momodou
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 Posted - 30 Dec 2014 : 09:18:02
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There is confirmation something is going on in Banjul. Any update?
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Momodou
Denmark
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Momodou
Denmark
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Posted - 01 Jan 2015 : 15:13:33
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UN condemns coup attempt in Gambia
Source: AP Update at Dec 31, 2014
By: EDITH M. LEDERER
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday condemned the coup attempt "against the legal and democratic institutions" in Gambia.
Chad's U.N. Ambassador Mahamat Zene, the current council president, told reporters after a closed-door briefing by U.N. political chief Jeffrey Feltman that members "welcomed the normalization of the situation in the country."
Heavy gunfire rang out Tuesday near the presidential palace in the tiny West African nation while President Yahya Jammeh, who came to power in a 1994 coup when he was 29 years old, was in France. He has reportedly returned to Gambia.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also reiterated the U.N.'s "principled condemnation of all attempts to seize power through unconstitutional means," U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq said.
Referring to reports that indicate the situation in the capital of Banjul is calm, Ban called for all parties "to exercise restraint and to refrain from further violence," he said.
The U.N. chief encourages "a transparent investigation" into Tuesday's events that respects human rights, due process and the rule of law, Haq said.
Zene, the council president, said Ban's special representative for West Africa, Mohammed Ibn Chambas, will visit Gambia soon and report back to members on the situation.
Gambia is a small former British colony surrounded by Senegal on both its northern and southern borders. Human rights activists have long criticized Jammeh's regime as repressive, charging it targets political dissidents, journalists, gays and lesbians.
Jammeh is one of Africa's most vocal anti-gay leaders and has previously threatened to behead sexual minorities found in his country. The U.S. government recently removed Gambia from a trade agreement in response to human rights abuses, including a law signed in October that imposes life imprisonment for some homosexual acts.
Jammeh also drew swift condemnation from activists in 2007 after he insisted that HIV-positive patients stop taking their antiretroviral medications, claiming he could cure them with an herbal body rub and bananas.
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kobo
United Kingdom
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Posted - 02 Jan 2015 : 01:40:50
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1. FALLEN GALLANT HEROES CONSIDERED "FREEDOM FIGHTERS" AND "TRUE PATRIOTS" WHO SACRIFICE THEIR LIVES TRYING TO LIBERATE NATION FROM TYRANNY!
 Njagga Jagne left
Lamin Sanneh right
Capt. Njaga Jagne and Col. Lamin Sanneh both lived in the US before they were killed in the Gambia
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kobo
United Kingdom
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Posted - 03 Jan 2015 : 00:29:27
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 Deceased Colonel Lamin S. Sanneh, Commanding Officer State Guards Battalion decorated
1. SOURCE FROM STATE HOUSE ARCHIVES NEWS WITH RELEVANT INFORMATION;
Captured Ex. Presidential Guard Modou Njie
2.KAIRO NEWS LATEST UPDATE;
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Momodou
Denmark
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Posted - 03 Jan 2015 : 15:44:22
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Life in Banjul easing
By Sailu Bah
Foroyaa: Published on January 2, 2015
Life in Banjul is beginning to ease with vehicles now allowed to ply the roads and people moving about freely on the streets.The gunfire in Banjul on Tuesday 30th December 2014, did affect a lot of households. A lot of families were unable to cook during the incident in Banjul. The Banjul market was closed and women who went to buy foodstuff for cooking were sent back home as well as market vendors in the early hours of the morning on Tuesday 30th December 2014. The Albert Market was guarded by armed military personnel and movement within the business area of the city was halted. Military personnel were patrolling the streets. By Thursday, even though movements of people and vehicles were allowed, military checkpoints were maintained on roads leading to State House such as Independence Drive (six check points), Marina Parade (three check points) and Liberation Avenue around the Banjul market.
Most of the shops which were closed were opened by Thursday.
At first all entrances to Banjul were closed, both the Denton Bridge and the ferry terminal. However on Wednesday the ferry and the boats commuting between Barra and Banjul (an Island) were plying the river under the watchful eye of naval patrol boats backed up by rigorous searching by security personnel at both terminals. Checkpoints between Old Jeshwang and Banjul numbered 8. In short security is still tight.
Families were worried and there was limited movement within the city of Banjul, leading to a long queue of vehicles and many people trekking to the city.
President Jammeh entered Banjul on Wednesday 31st December 2014, with his convoy along the independence drive and he was in his normal outfit waving at people along the road. He entered the city around 19:00hrs in the evening. And there was a diversion of vehicles to other roads in Banjul with great traffic congestion in the city.
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Momodou
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Posted - 03 Jan 2015 : 15:47:07
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Escaped armed attackers flee to Guinea-Bissau?
Foroyaa Editor: Published on January 2, 2015
A news agency (AFP) reports that four officers suspected of participating in an armed attack on Banjul on 30 December have taken refuge in Guinea-Bissau. The reporter indicated that he obtained the information from a military source in Guinea-Bissau yesterday (Thursday). They ¡§arrived Wednesday evening in Bissau and turned themselves in to the (military) authorities,¡¨ the source in Bissau told AFP. The source did not explain how the fugitives reached Guinea-Bissau.
Foroyaa got in touch with the PRO of the Gambia Armed Forces for clarification on this and other questions relating to the incident of the gunfire in Banjul which were put to him earlier. But when he was asked whether we can put forward our questions, he said he was not in a position to make any comment at that moment. He said he was also not in a position to say when he would be in a position to answer questions.
On 30 December 2014, between the hours of 2am and 4am, sporadic heavy gunshots kept Banjulians awake and when daylight came, they found soldiers patrolling the streets of Banjul. Apart from the statement asking people to remain calm without stating what had happened, there has been no official statement on the incident up to the time of going to press.
President Jammeh identified the ring leader as Lamin Sanneh. He also said four of the armed attackers were killed, though he did not mention any other name.
“Attackers Based In US, Germany and UK Used US Made Weapons”
Suwaibou Touray and Saikou Nyassi
Foroyaa: Published on January 2, 2015
Gambian president, Yahya Jammeh, in an interview with GRTS Kebba Dibba on NewState House Year’s eve at State House in Banjul broadcast late night at about 11pm, the Gambian leader said contrary to media reports that the attack at the Gambia State House in Banjul was a coup attempt against his government, it was an attack by dissidents based in the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom.President Jammeh alleged that all the weapons used or some of the materials used were made in the US. He however said they have a comprehensive plan but also said they too know about their planned treachery. He said the dissidents had a three staged plan, plan one, two and the final stage. He said what is interesting is the fact that the government was able to get all what the dissidents put in their computer. He said his government downloaded everything by being able to break the code. He promised to release further information which he described as startling.
The Gambian president however exonerated the Gambia Armed Forces and described them as very loyal. He said as far as they are concerned there isn’t any single officer involved in the attack; that it cannot be called a military coup attempt. He reiterated that it was a terrorist attack led by a group backed by some powers, but was short of naming the countries he said are behind the attack.
The Gambian president said there are countries who always talk about being friends of the Gambia but said what they have seen now is clear to every Gambian that they are not friends of the country.
President Jammeh said they have all the documents which he would show later. He said the attackers thought by attacking the State House, the armed forces would join them and the people in their thousands would also join; that they thought the armed forces and the people are disgruntled, which he said, is not true. He said that is why they have the type of weapons they had. He asserted that these were soldiers who were dismissed from the army and one of them who he did not name was a commander of the State Guard.
The Gambian president who said he is surprised how Mr. Lamin Sanneh, who was said to have led the attack and who had just left the country, could get finance to stage such an expensive act like the one he carried out on Tuesday. He went on to criticise a particular Embassy which he did not name, adding that the said embassy always wants Gambians to believe that they are true friends of the country. He emphasised again and again that it was not a coup attempt because no single Gambian soldier got involved in the attack. He added that the investigations are going on.
Asked to describe some of the weapons, he mentioned what he said is an American version of F16 bought in Florida and another that he said was a type of weapon used by the US in Iraq. He said he will not compromise with security because some people helped these attackers to bring the weapons inside the country. He vowed that those who are involved would pay a high price very soon.
President Jammeh said he is surprised to hear that he has posted information at a social media which he said is not true. He said he does not subscribe to any social media. He also said he did not speak to any media while he was away.
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kobo
United Kingdom
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Posted - 04 Jan 2015 : 05:22:09
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 1.KAIRO NEWS WITH
2.KIBAARO NEWS WITH A BRILLIANT PAPER ON POLITICAL SITUATION |
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Aku_pickin
Christmas Island
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Posted - 04 Jan 2015 : 21:07:48
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Shame on you Mr. Savage!! You have done your country a great disservice!!!
It's only a matter of time before Jammeh turns on you and your family. |
Justice must be served as impunity brings more repression and corruption! |
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kobo
United Kingdom
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Posted - 05 Jan 2015 : 03:20:47
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People's Progressive Party. The Gambia - PPP AS FIRST POLITICAL PARTY TO ISSUE A STATEMENT ON COUP AND FOLLOWING EXTRACTED FROM ITS FACEBOOK!
"Coup Rumors is another Big fat Hoax, Lie by Dictator Jammeh …..
Please don’t fall for it, my friends! There was no coup attempt, absolutely not!
The onus is on Dictator Yaya Jammeh to prove accusations he made of an alleged attempt to overthrow his illegal government on December, 30, 2014, in Banjul. Jammeh’s government announced that there was no problem on December 30, saying that rumors of a coup were unfounded. Jammeh himself avoided mentioning any threat to his government in his empty and self –congratulatory New Year’s pronouncement. If Yaya’s government categorically denied that there was no attempt on his government, how come we have four dead citizens, who were on vacation in the Gambia, on state house grounds? After collecting his wits the following day, Jammeh has gone on a tirade accusing Senegal and the world of undermining his government. That is why Gambians are demanding for an independent body, led by the United Nations and Ecowas, to investigate what really happened or did not happen, on December 30, 2014 in Banjul. The Gambian people are calling and demanding for the bodies of the deceased to be returned to their families for a proper and dignified burial.
If Jammeh has blood running through his veins, if he has a mother, like all of us, he should immediately surrender the bodies to their mothers and fathers. So far, not only is Yaya Jammeh’s behavior erratic, callous, inhumane, disrespectful, but also not a reflection of Gambian values.
My friends, don’t fall for it. This is an old tactic by Dictators to intimidate and silence the opposition and quash dissent, at a time when the opposition is gaining momentum in changing hearts and minds. These rumors are nothing but fabrications and a strategy to repress the opposition and people further more. Jammeh believes in using the old Dictator playbook of keeping the people on a heightened and tense security atmosphere, perennially.
This revolution will be won without firing a shot, because we are already winning. The international community is finally engaged in a systematic isolation of the Jammeh regime, through targeted economic and financial sanctions. The Obama administration has already revoked Jammeh government’s eligibility under the AGOA Act. The European Union is also withholding millions of Euros intended to support his government, all because of his human rights records based on the 17 Point Plan. Before long we expect the EU and the US to impose travel bans on Jammeh, his globetrotting wife, and his inner circle. Because of this increasing international diplomatic isolation, Jammeh is drifting further and further in to the murky Middle East sheikdoms, into the camps of people who are funding the real terrorists, ISIL and ISIS. He has become a beggar in the Middle East, who are not known for their respect and compassion for African people.
For historical reasons, the Arab Trans-Sahara Slave Trade started 1000 years before the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, and continues unabated, ( albeit to a trickle) to this day !. He may want to remind his new turbaned masters on his next visit about their 1, 500 year slave trade and colonialism of our young. But I digress…
Yes, we are already winning and we continue to affirm and reiterate the PPP’s readiness and commitment to join any opposition coalition, without any pre-conditions, to force electoral reforms before the 2016 General elections.
Yes, we believe the rumors of a coup against Jammeh’s government are a hoax for a pretext to establish a state of emergency as we get closer to 2016 General. Yaya Jammeh knows a strong and united opposition spells doom for his illegal government, so this is a ploy to unleash the hated NIA secret police and his dogs of war, including the Green Boys, to intimidate and scare the angry and hungry population into submission, Yaya does not want to be challenged in public, he does not want the opposition to be heard in public. He is so afraid of their message of hope, freedom, progress and a balanced prosperity for all. So far, since December 30, 2014, what we have seen is the desecration of the dead and the humiliation and persecution of their distraught families and innocent people.
My friends, please keep your eyes on the ball. Yaya Jammeh is unleashing terror on the Gambian people as we speak, day and night, yet he is claiming that the people love and support his failed policies. Mr. President, the Gambian people demand you surrender the bodies of the deceased, and all those who were murdered under your regime in the last twenty years, The Gambian people demand an independent investigation into the events, or the lack thereof that led to the deaths of some four Gambians in Banjul. Show your respect to the Gambian people by looking them in the eye, and talk to them in plain language, instead of talking at them or down to them, menacingly, without the humility and compassion of a leader. Gambians are already on their knees, sick, hungry, angry and unemployed, under your watch.
Gambia, we deserve a leader who respects us, cherishes the scared duty we bestowed on him or her. We did not choose you, Jammeh, you forced yourself on us like a rapist, and we will never accept. Where is your compassion in this New Year? Under President Jawara, all the 1981 coup plotters, including those who murdered people and destroyed property were pardoned before 1994!How is that for compassion and humility!.. How many people did you pardon in this New Year? Why don’t you start with Amadou Sanneh, Mambury Njie, Njogou Bah, Momodou Sabally, Mamour Ceesay or Ebou Jobe? Gambia, we deserve better…
Mr. President, remove and withdraw the real terrorists that you have dancing and jiving in the streets, masquerading as soldiers; that behavior is so alien to the Gambian culture and norms, it smells to high heaven. This behavior is only adding insult to injury to the petrified and terrorized population.We demand you stop harassing the opposition parties and free Amadou Sanneh and all the political prisoners of conscience today, not tomorrow. Why don’t you allow the opposition to peaceably assemble and campaign? You are a coward that is why you are afraid of the opposition even using a Public Address System (PA system or even speakers), in public! The Gambian people are sick and tired of your lies and bad policies, because it has only increased misery and suffering.
Mr. President, the Gambian people are still waiting for your proofs that the rumor was actually a coup attempt. Unless, it can be independently verified by the United Nations and other bodies, we the Gambian don’t believe a word you said, because you have a history of being a congenital and compulsive liar. We will resist any attempt to establish a state of emergency, arrest opposition leaders and their supporters, or postpone the 2016 General Elections. Once again, we affirm our commitment, in any future democratic dispensation, to fully investigate the mysterious deaths pf these four young and accomplished Gambians, on December 30, 2014, and all those who were murdered under your watch, all the disappearances, illegal imprisonments and persecution, corruption and nepotism.
Mr. President, we ask you to practice the reconciliation you are treacherously pushing through your minions, your agent provocateurs in the Diaspora, to release the bodies of the dead and release all those arrested in this big hoax of a coup you are trying to pull over our eyes …. We reject it and demand the truth now.
Please Share this post on Facebook, like us, join, support and donate through, www.pppgambia.com. Now is the time to be active so we can remove the state of siege that our families are living under. We welcome your feedback and please come back for more. Good Night." |
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kobo
United Kingdom
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Posted - 05 Jan 2015 : 03:29:13
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Aku Pickin! Yes matter of time as Savage's action (accused of betrayal) is worst than Lang Tomobong Jatta being incarcerated facing death penalty; among others used by Jammeh and destroyed, including Sana Sabally, late Sadibou Hydara, late Baba Jobe, late Daba Marenah, Thirteen Badgie, Bombarde, Solo Bojang, Jesus Badjie, Ben Jammeh, Pa Bojang.......naming few???They (enablers and sycophants) believe in position and privileges but will live to regret it.
Visit his Facebook to read congratulatory messages from regime loyalists; compliments pampering or massaging his ego and his appreciation to them. |
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Momodou
Denmark
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Posted - 05 Jan 2015 : 17:13:49
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Aljazeera just announced that the US has charged two U.S. Gambian citizens Cherno Njie and Papa Faal in connection with the failed coup.
2 men charged in US in attempted Gambia coup
Update at 4:52 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal prosecutors in the United States say two men have been charged with conspiring to help overthrow the government in the small West African nation of Gambia.
The Justice Department says both are in custody and are expected to make court appearances later Monday in Baltimore and Minneapolis.
The charges stem from an attempted coup attempt in the country last week.
Prosecutors say the two men, Cherno Njie and Papa Faal, traveled separately from the United States to Gambia to participate in the unrest there. They later returned to the U.S. and are now in custody.
It wasn't immediately clear whether the two men had lawyers. |
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Momodou
Denmark
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Posted - 05 Jan 2015 : 19:09:46
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DEFUSING OR INFLAMING THE 30TH DECEMBER INCIDENT?
Foroyaa Editorial: Published on January 5, 2015
The incident of December 30th did come to all like a thunderbolt from the blue. Those who perpetrated it did not expect to die. At first it appeared that a coup had occurred in the Gambia. Within hours it became clear that it was an armed insurrection by former members of the Armed Forces and the conflict was contained within the environs of the state house.
One expected that there would be no arrest of civilians or purging of the security forces. It was expected that to contain the crisis the government would treat the development as a mere incident and would in fact open up for more dialogue on the way forward for the country.
Reports of arrests of the mothers and fathers of some suspects do not contribute to the defusing of the uncertainty predicating the 30th December event. Collective punishment is a Stone Age notion of justice where families settle scores when any member is a victim of abuse. No one should be subjected to arrest who is not suspected of having committed a crime. We therefore hope that all those who are arrested just because of blood ties would be immediately released. |
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Aku_pickin
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State House Attack - Coup??
