By Mathew K Jallow More directly, the Gambia’s Yahya Jammeh poses an existential threat to Senegal, Guinea-Bissau and Guinea-Conakry; more immediately, the very quintessence of ECOWAS, and more broadly, to the concept of the African Union. His deleterious reign of terror can no longer be ignored, brushed aside or resigned to the mercy of Africa’s paradoxically [...]

By Mathew K Jallow   Last week, Gambia suddenly burst out into the international limelight as the newest flashpoint of spectacular political failure, and civil unrest; the culmination of two decades of festering political discontent and strident opposition to a regime deeply entrenched in assassinations and economic plunder. The week began with the fearless march [...]

By Mathew K Jallow   Even by Yahya Jammeh’s disgustingly low ethical standard, this has to be a recapitalization from his customary chest-beating, mouth-foaming, and tongue spitting bravado, and detachment from social order. This may come as a complete surprise to ECOWAS, but to Gambians, Yahya Jammeh’s frequent puzzling reversals on his decisions are just [...]

By Mathew K Jallow Since 2000, elections in the Gambia have been a recurrent exercise in futility and deception, with grave, real life consequences for the Gambian people. The last four elections cycles, and the efforts to present a united opposition character, have routinely been marred by Faustian duplicity; completely disregarding the Gambia’s monumental political [...]