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 with nation building.
Yahya Jammeh
Tagged under Democracy & Governance Yahya Jammeh, The Gambia, Adama Barrow, Corrution in Africa, Dictatorship
On 6 April 2017, I drove around the Gambian capital, Banjul, with a sense of historic déja-vu as I watched people queue at polling stations to cast their ballots in legislative elections.
It was a life and death story, and so I don't enjoy telling it. But once the recent developments had driven it from deep down my mind right up to the front, there was no way of shoving it aside.
To draw plausible conclusions as to whether justice would be served for alleged human rights abuses committed by state officers in the Second Republic, it is necessary for one to revisit the case of Senator Augusto Pinochet as it may allow us to
Kudos to ECOWAS – to be able to get rid of a conscienceless bulldog of a power junkie like Yahya Jammeh without firing a single shot should count as one of the greatest achievements of that body.
Tagged under Democracy & Governance Yahya Jammeh, ECOWAS