The Talking Point
Published 01/16/2012 - 11:00 p.m. GMT
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Judgment is set for Tuesday, Jan.17 for Dr. Jammeh and co-accused persons. The former minister is charged with treason for printing t-shirts demanding an 'end to dictatorship'.
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Now the trial has ended and the verdict of the court is upon us, and
what is still not clear to any Gambian is what exactly is treasonous
and seditious in what CCG members have done. The formation of
political associations and printing and giving out t-shirts with
political messages on them represent CCG member’s political opinions
that;
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Published 01/07/2012 - 6:25 p.m. GMT
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Fatou Bensouda, ICC prosecutor
(Photo: The Hague Justice Portal)
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ICC's new Chief Prosecutor under fire for collaborating with one of Africa's most brutal dictators
The so-called Diaspora summit idea, first heralded as groundbreaking, soon descended into an abyss of paralyzing doubt and lethal skepticism; foiled primarily by an extremely hostile and antagonistic dissident movement. The meeting which began with high expectations, ended instead with a thud; overshadowed by rumors about Yahya Jammeh’s seeming disappearance
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Published 12/19/2011 - 11:45 p.m. GMT
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Dr. Amadou S. Jammeh stands trial for 'sedition'.
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In the trial of Dr. Amadou
Scattred Janneh and the
Coalition for Change-Gambia
(CCG) 7, for the unlikely
crimes of treason and
sedition, the chicanery ended
for the state’s prosecution
witnesses,
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Published 12/10/2011 - 1:11 a.m. GMT
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President Yahya Jammeh
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It was not quite like the
notorious
Röhm-Putschof 1934,
yet Yahya Jammeh’s malicious
Faustian denunciations of his
political opponents, and his
threatening self-righteous
hypocritical pontifications
about the immorality of tribal
politics, in a strange way,
bore a remarkable, if not an
unsettling resemblance to the
Night of the Long
Knives. For like
Adolf
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Published 11/30/2011 - 12:43 a.m. GMT
"The U.S.
can't ignore what's going on
in Gambia. It is a growing
transshipment point for drugs
to Europe and is on its way
to becoming a destabilizing
force for the western region
of Africa," says Melvin
Foote, president of the
Washington-based Constituency
for Africa. "A lot of people
over there see him (Jammeh)
as an instigator."
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Published 11/26/2011 - 11:48 p.m. GMT
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Yahya Jammeh will only go the way his friend Gaddafi did, or Gbagbo of Ivory Coast
(Photo: AFP)
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Friday 25th November 2011,
will in the annals of The
Gambia’s history, be forever
remembered with consternation
and utter disbelief as one of
our country’s darkest hour; a
dark day in which Gambians
everywhere descended to the
lowest points of our political
lives. The shocking results of
Gambia’s recently concluded
presidential elections are a
manifestation of the power
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