Senegal and Gambia; two countries, one nation, and this is not political pandering. It is a fact grounded in our shared language, culture, geography and history. It is burnt into the social fabric bequeathed by our ancestors and seared in the traditions inherited from our past. The shallow view of the Senegal and Gambia dichotomous identities that today define us as separate entities is a forced historical legacy and a ridiculous invention of long ago geopolitical interests, which nonetheless have failed miserably to blur the reality of our common identity.

In 2005, Gambia lost to Aliment a groundnut company $12 million in a bungled legal tussle (RefICSID Case No. ARB/99/5); now it is likely to lose more to Carnegie Minerals, thanks to the advice of amateurish Nigerian mercenary so-called lawyers.

The opposition parties have ten days in which to mount the campaign of a life time. Yahya Jammeh has embarked on a de-facto two-week whirlwind campaign tour. The November 2011 elections are just round the corner. And IEC's voter registration of 869,000 is out of sync with

A last week’s indignant headline in the Daily News casting the godless Gambian judiciary and Kangaroo court system as unbearable embodiments of Yahya Jammeh’s imperial regime, might to some seem pietistic, or it may even have appeared as an ostentatious political grandstanding, yet no one will equate it to a canting expression of ecclesiastical pontification.