By Mathew K Jallow The Gambian military regime long ago concluded that spreading terror had the desirable effect of pacifying the population and neutralizing dissent, and has never looked back. What the regime never quite understood, however, is that even fear has a finite shelf life. And last week, when the long simmering frustrations [...]
By Mathew K Jallow The verbal clash that just erupted between Senegal’s President, Macky Sall, and Yahya Jammeh, epitomizes the dichotomy between democracy and tyranny, but it also illustrates the simmering diplomatic schism and benign political rift, which has eroded the fraternal relations between the sister countries. Yahya Jammeh’s unflattering vilification of two former and [...]
By Mathew K Jallow After more than twenty years of tyranny, the single consequential blow-back on the Gambia’s murderous regime, under Yahya Jammeh, was the regional body; ECOWAS’s rejection of an observer status to the Gambia’s predetermined presidential elections. That was back in 2011. The Hon. James Victor Gbeho, then President of ECOWAS, personified the [...]