Yahya Jammeh News

Hon Kamalesh Sharma Secretary General, Commonwealth Marlborough House London Dear Secretary General: It is now just one week before the CHOGM.

It takes sacrifice and real hard work to get where one desires to be in this world .

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Brazil on Monday for a one-day visit and met Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

CHOGM gets boost from climate change talks This week's Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting has become much bigger than anticipated with climate change assuming top priority, Energy Minister Conrad Enill said yesterday... Climate of fear 'I believe this whole human-induced climate change issue is a huge fraud and really a non-issue,' says UWI ...

Sunday Guardian has learnt that the Commonwealth Secretariat has made recommendations for dialogue with the Government of Gambia surrounding the development.

GAMBIAN PRESIDENT Dr Yahya Jammeh is not coming to next week's Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Port-of-Spain. Official confirmation of Jammeh's non-attendance came yesterday from the Foreign Affairs Ministry.

Press Freedom gained ground this week from Washington to New York. Yesterday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed the Daniel Pearl Freedom of the Press Act, which would compel the State Department to broaden as well as deepen its reporting on press freedom conditions worldwide to congress.

The Gambian leader, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh has reiterated his unrelenting commitment towards ensuring that corruption and mismanagement of public properties does not exist in the government machinery.

High-level talks HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani receiving Gambian Foreign Minister Osman Jammeh yesterday.

Strong words came over the podium during the 64th General Assembly of the United Nations from Gambian President El-Hajj Yahya Jammeh , who called for equity, respect and a greater role for Africa within the world body.

The pace of development in The Gambia is moving steadily in the right direction under the dynamic and visionary leadership of President Jammeh.

The Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting begins in Port-of-Spain on November 27 and continues for three days.

Yahya Jammeh, the megalomaniac in charge of The Gambia, has reportedly threatened to execute practicing gays who are HIV positive.

Gambian army chief General Lang Tombong Tamba has been sacked, Gambian state television announced Friday, with military sources saying he had been suspected of corruption.

The Gambia is one of Africa's smallest countries and unlike many of its West African neighbours it has enjoyed long spells of stability since independence.

The Gambian leader, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh has said that it is high time that The Gambia became a net exporter, observing the fact that the country has been a net importer for a very long time.

I will kill anyone who wants to destabilise this country. If you think that you can collaborate with so-called human rights defenders and get away with it, you must be living in a dream world.

President Yahya Jammeh has warned human rights workers he will kill them. It's up to the rest of Africa to get tough with him Yahya Jammeh, president of the Gambia, seems determined to drag one of Africa's smallest countries into the kind of instability that other west African countries have struggled to escape.

The Daily Observer Gambia : Bank of the South - a Welcome Development Daily Observer 30 September 2009 editorial The revelation by President Jammeh that the second Africa-South America Summit has led to the signing of a very important agreement - the establishment of a Bank of the South - is indeed a welcome development.

West African journalists have condemned proposal by The Gambian government to amend the jurisdiction of the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice.