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Gambia government urged to move towards tangible reform

Friday, 11 March 2011 18:19

jammeh2As EU continues to monitor funding to the country
The Campaign for Human Rights in The Gambia UK (CHRG) continues to engage the UK coalition government to do all it can to put international pressure on the Gambia government in defence of fundamental human rights.
The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office recently informed  CHRG through the All Party Parliamentary Human Rights Group (PHRG) that the EU does track human rights situation in the Gambia and although there are currently no set benchmark under article 8, the European commission can, and currently does, restrictjammeh2 EU funding, adding The European Commission and some member states will continue to monitor EU funding to the West African country until improvements are made in political governance.
In a letter sent to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office recently by the All Party Parliamentary Human Rights Group (PHRG) about the human rights situation in The Gambia and which EU countries are concerned about the deteriorating situation, the Foreign Office pointed out that within the article 8 dialogue process, the EU Commission has approved the placement in Banjul of a Detached National Expert.
The expert, funded by DFID, will work on improving political governance and working closely with civil society, media, the judiciary and other areas where the EU seek to influence good governance and improved human rights.
"We have told the government of the Gambia that we will continue to raise human rights whenever necessary, and we will continue to keep abreast of the current political and economic governance situation in The Gambia. We hope our next EU discussions will continue the impetus for the government of The Gambia to continue moving towards tangible reform, the letter concluded.
Alieu B Ceesay, Campaign Officer of (CHRG), said the campaign will continue to engage the coalition government and senior politicians in the UK in defence of human rights, civil liberty and political freedom in The Gambia.
"The situation in the Gambia is horrendous; opponents of the government are routinely arrested and held without charge. The recent arrest of supporters of the Gambia Moral Congress for exercising their constitutional rights is an eye sore on the country’s democracy. More must be done urgently and that’s why CHRG will continue to engage the UK government and the international community to ensure that the Gambian government meet its human rights obligation and bring an end to the wave of terror that have swept that country for the last 16years."
Source:www.gambiacampaign.org

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+2 #24 2011-03-14 22:09
" Man cannot live by bread alone"
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0 #23 2011-03-14 19:06
Countdown to Apr 11 campaign to end dictatorship in The Gambia. 10 a.m., From Traffic Lights to Youth Monument (Kairaba Avenue)Join the Peaceful March and spread the word.
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0 #22 2011-03-14 15:34
If yahya jammeh want to realise his ignorance and incompetence about agriculture and Africa malnutrition, he should ask a farmer, if they have the means to preserve their products a month or more if they slaughter a bull or got a full catch boat with fish, then he will know better. Even the householders own initiative with western help like refrigerators are not spare because of energy cuts. If I was a fisherman and came from sea at Bakau with three boats all full of Bonga, I will be worried rather happy. Since I have a day to sell them all that day or risk throwing because of bacterial spoilage. This is the same pattern with many protein foods and how can one implement an economic of scale or scope in an environment. Ironically, intelligent farmer Jammeh suffers the same problem in Gambia agricultural value chain he is elected to fix.
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0 #21 2011-03-14 15:34
True, but how is one going to achieve that in this hungry world. To simplify it, one should visit a modern supermarket and try and imagine how are the products grown, harvested, packaged and displayed for a days, week, months or years on shelves and the process repeated weekly with a minimum of waste or bacterial spoilage? Africa’s food problem is because of chronic ignorance rulers’ like him apart from wars etc. If you want to feed Africa or Gambia year round, you have to industrialise and mechanise farming. He lives in his own world. His job is to create that industrialisati on and the value chain. Africa food consumption (my guess) is based on raw food that does not go spoil for weeks or months e.g. Rice, Millet etc. Protein and vital mineral rich foods need industrial competence to be produce and preserve.
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0 #20 2011-03-14 15:32
Yes, Mr Halake; I read the article with the heading “President Jammeh has disclosed that a battalion will be created within the Gambia Armed Forces (GAF) by 2009, tasked with the duty of engaging in agricultural productivity to help provide food for the entire military. The president said any excess from their harvest would be sold to generate revenue” (Daily Observer at http://observer.gm/africa/gambia/article/2008/6/16/battalion-for-agriculture). It’s now 2011 and this evidence of the over exaggeration of his ability and knowledge of economic growth in real terms. Security services as a commercial farmer. What a joker? Like you said “Development is for me first and foremost being able to FEED YOUR PEOPLE”.
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0 #19 2011-03-14 15:15
Someone wrote President jammeh does not pay tax for his businesses, can you give us clear evidence that he paid no taxes.Hoping to hear from you soon.
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0 #18 2011-03-14 12:49
Well said Badara.

Don't some people talk a load of bollocks?
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0 #17 2011-03-13 22:40
I think there is a valid case to be made that much of Africa's so-called "development" is irrelevant to the needs of the vast majority of the people. Believe it or not, I was interviewed in a full-page Daily Observer (by Sheriff Bojang in 2002) when I stated: Vision 20/20 can be replaced with one word. "Food". My last editorial when I was arrested was "Agricultural Battalion for 2009". Development is for me first and foremost being able to FEED YOUR PEOPLE. At Daily Observer I pushed this agenda and annoyed the Air-Con PAJEROCRATS.
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+2 #16 2011-03-13 09:27
My point is there is no significant development growth rather complimentary or rather support services to strategic economic growth in Gambia.--Badara, i can't say more, because this is the point that most Gambians fail to realize and it is the key to the BACKWARDNESS of Africa, we do not know what development is or appreciate development. Like you said "The sad thing is those unaware of development will only see his development since they are still derive the chance to experience or witness charismatic, democratic, assertive and global educated developer to shop for Gambia." I laugh to the ignorance of most Gambians who compare and praise the changes that happen in the Gambia. People cry about higher prices, from regular business men, but praises Jammeh's prices from his illegal business setups, where he pays no taxes, no transportation for merchandise. And no one ask why his prices are so low, but most people think is because of good deeds, not realizing the true dilemma.
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+2 #15 2011-03-12 22:19
However, where is the developed sector in 17yrs where a Brit will sit in London and say I saw a product or service made in Gambia in Global class and I am going to order it except tourism? This is economic development and growth for real and not complimentary services like mini airport or roads or hospitals, we call development. He is no different than the consumer in Tesco. If he thinks he is a developer, let him say what industrial sector he created in the past 17yrs which says made in Gambia and a company in London will source it to sell in UK consumer market. That is what a country’s real developer does and the income generated is use by the municipalities to provide more modern complimentary services or regenerations. There are people who can do that if he only give way since he has “tried” accompanied with grove human rights and Gambia’s resource abuses in the last 17yrs with only patchy complimentary infrastructures only.Simple
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