Jammeh's Biggest Trial

Jammeh says 2012 toughest for his 18 years rule (photo credit: Wikipedia)

Aid agencies to feed Gambians amid worsening food crisis

Maize grains

Amid worsening food crisis in the Sahel region of West Africa, international aid agencies respond to calls by the Gambia Government to help feed her people.

The country suffered a serious drop in crop production in 2011 blamed on late and erratic rains. As a result, local citizens are already running out of food supply.

United Nations and international aid agencies warn in February 2012 that drought and food shortage in the Sahel is threatening lives, with an estimated over 20 million people to go hungry.

Gambia, Senegal Deny Involvement in Attack on Guinea Leader

Gambia Foreign Affairs Minister - Momodou Tangara

(Africasia) - Gambia on Monday denied any involvement in an attempted assassination of Guinean President Alpha Conde in July, after he accused Senegal and Gambia of being complicit in the attack.
Conde, in an interview with the private Senegalese radio station Sud FM broadcast on Sunday, said a rocket attack on his home had been plotted in Dakar, and he suspected the two governments were aware of it.
"The Gambia would like to state that it did not have any involvement or prior information surrounding the attempted assassination of the Guinean president," read a statement from the foreign ministry.

Senegalese drivers to resume crossing into Gambia

President Wade and Jammeh had muted about the issue all this while (pix - Daily News)

Senegal’s transport unions have announced that they will resume crossing into neighboring Gambia from Monday May 9, 2011 after agreements were reached between Senegalese and Gambian officials on Friday.

Jammeh, Wade urged to end Senegambia border blockade

Jammeh & Wade

The President of the Dakar-based National Organisation for Human Rights (ONDH) Mr. Djibril Aziz BADIANE has called on The Gambian President Yahya Jammeh and Senegalese President Abdoulie Wade to resolve the “unofficial” border blockade.

Mr. BADIANE, who is heading a six-month project on “Human Rights Approach in the Process of Regional Integration in West Africa”, was in Banjul, where he held a day long workshop on April 29, as part of the project initiated in Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal and The Gambia.

Senegal demands have been met, but the border blockade persist

Jammeh & Wade

The Secretary General of The Gambia National Trade Union Congress Mr. Ebrima Garba Cham has told The Voice Newspaper that all the demands of the Senegalese Transport Union have been met but the “unofficial” closure of the border to vehicles continues.

The Senegalese Union decided to put up a blockade, restricting the movement of vehicles across the borders between Gambia and Senegal after a Senegalese cement-loaded truck sank in Gambian waters at the country side town of Farafenni in the North Bank Region in February 2011.