[size=14pt]Gambian President hits out at African Union over Gaddafi protests[/size]
Leader says the union's lack of action against brutal responses to protests is unacceptable
BY: Melissa Rudd | Sat Feb 26, 2011
TAGS: African Union, Gambia, Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, North Africa, revolts, Yahya Jammeh


Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has criticised the AU

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has hit out at the African Union for its "unacceptable silence" on the violent responses to revolts in North African nations and urged Libya's Moammar Gaddafi to step down immediately.

"It is a shocking reality that in all the happenings, beginning with the crisis in Tunisia, to that in Egypt, and now Libya and countries in North Africa, the leadership of the African Union (AU) neither made a statement nor took action despite the fact that these were uprisings affecting member states," said Jammeh's statement read on national television.

The Gambian government said the African Union should have at least discussed how to avoid brutality. Instead, the Gambians said, the lead has been taken by non-African countries.

"The AU should not and cannot play second fiddle in situations as we now see them happening on the continent," Jammeh's statement said.

"If the AU cannot stop the carnage taking place in some of its member states, then it cannot be in a position to bring a continental government capable of lifting Africa out of abject poverty and under-development. Whether Black or Arab Africa, we are all Africans without discrimination."

A statement from the chairman of the AU's commission Wednesday condemned the "disproportionate use of force against civilians" in Libya and deplored "the many human lives lost so far."

"The chairperson of the Commission reiterates the appeal made by the (African Union) Peace and Security Council for an immediate end of the repression and violence," said the statement from Jean Ping.

"He stresses that only dialogue and consultation will enable the Libyans to find appropriate solutions to the challenges facing their country and to embark upon the necessary reforms to fulfill the aspirations of their people."

The Gambian president's statement, which also urged Gaddafi to resign, has come as a shock considering the relations between Libya and Gambia.

http://www.africanbusinessreview.co.za/tags/libya/gambian-president-hits-out-african-union-over-gaddafi-protests

This mofo should shut up, he's next in line!

Its the rabbit and snake response. They`re powerless, it seems. I just hope there`ll be subsaharan blacks left in libya by the time all this is over. It`s starting to sound like rwanda all over again. Dead silence until after what`s done is done.

There is no such thing as an 'African Union'.

Union = united.

Africa has not been united since the invasion of the arabs.

@beaf: u r my friend for once for this post, nw i expect u to tell ur boss gej to make a statement as the president of Nigeria agains d despot in libya but his busy seeking for audience with d guy that stoled 40bila according 2u. Im waiting!

And to think some African Union members actually considered having Ghaddafi as King of Africa at one time . . . ROFLMAO!!

Kobojunkie said:

And to think the African Union actually considered Ghaddafi as their King one time . . . ROFLMAO!!

Do not misrepresent or falsify issues please. Thanks.

roflmao!!!

byrron:

@beaf: u r my friend for once for this post, nw i expect u to tell your boss gej to make a statement as the president of Nigeria agains d despot in libya but his busy seeking for audience with d guy that stoled 40bila according 2u. Im waiting!

Thanks for dropping by, and as usual your foolishness hasn't failed to amaze and entertain. You are two days late though, so keep waiting. 

[size=14pt]FG condemns Libyan govt over-use of force on protesters [/size]
Thursday, 24 February 2011 00:00
Horatius Egua

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“We are not happy about the violence and the unrestrained nature of the violence with the civilian population. We are monitoring the situation from the perspective of our own citizens. We do not interfere in the affairs of other countries; we believe that the Libyan government should find a peaceful way of reconciling themselves with their citizens. We have condemned the violence and no government should use unrestrained force against its own people,”

http://businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/news/76-hot-topic/18478-fg-condemns-libyan-govt-over-use-of-force-on-protesters

@POST

The post indicates Africans are ridiculously clueless. Bible said is “Saul also among the prophets”.

@ Dede, it is Saul, not Paul.

@ Poster,

D observation is disheartening. For once again, it shows hpw Africa has refused to take up challenges for her destiny. Its always d colonial masters to d rescue, only for later she wakes up to point fingers to d same western nations for exploiting or meddling in her affairs. Now, one gets to wonder how Africa can care for herself wtout d western interventions. It is only logical to reap where u sow, hence making Western exploitations appear justifiable in some manner of speaking.

Africa will only grow when we learn to act responsibly and protect our own.

the guy is looking for cheap popularity

violent:

This mofo should shut up, he's next in line!

otokx:

the guy is looking for cheap popularity

Nothing wrong in what he said.

I have nothing to add to this discussion other than saying that the Gambian president certainly has fashion sense.

It never ceases to amaze me how these african leaders continue to show how desperate they are to be accepted by their white masters - this high school dropout who gained power through a military coup and has been in office for almost 20 years now thinks he is qualified to criticise Gadaffi.

What has Yahahya Jammeh done for his people other than hand Gambia over to lebanese and british business men to make money while leaving his people to wallow in poverty, i don't blame him.

Typical case of pot calling kettle black.

cap28:

It never ceases to amaze me how these african leaders continue to show how desperate they are to be accepted by their white masters - this high school dropout who gained power through a military coup and has been in office for almost 20 years now thinks he is qualified to criticise Gadaffi.

What has Yahahya Jammeh done for his people other than hand Gambia over to lebanese and british business men to make money while leaving his people to wallow in poverty, i don't blame him.

I see you still support Gaddafi, even after his evil actions against his people (which I'm sure you still attribute to America).
Dude, do you have to eat something or smoke something to be this dim? I mean, how do you achieve it?

So is ghaddafi going to step down just because the African union tells him to? No. Does the African union have any real power?no. does the African union have an aircraft carrier or nuclear wepons? No. So let's be frank the African union is a poinless organization that is not united to begin with, And ghadafi is it's leader.

^^^ guy, please go and learn how to reason first, dn come back and re-start posting sensibly. WTF is ur obsession wt war, aircraft carriers and nukes abt? What has dt got to do wt matters being discussed? Hw is Ghaddafi head of AU? D way u post nonsense all about make me wonder if u hav a brain at all abeit a functional one. Pls sav us ur fooolhardy by taking heed to my advice. Make sure u dont post again until u actually learn to reason. Be gone, !

why do we (nigerians) like killing the messenger?

The man has brought a very meaningful message and you decide to attack the messenger while ignoring the message.

Before he stated this, we all knew of his tragic leadership and long time in office. By all means he is far from a saint but then we knew that before he talked, rather lets find out why the AU and IC have not been forthcoming action-wise with Libya.

eku_bear:

I have nothing to add to this discussion other than saying that the Gambian president certainly has fashion sense.

lol


He's certainly had a lot of time (a decade and a half in power) to upgrade himself.

ikay88:

why do we (nigerians) like killing the messenger?

[s]The man has brought a very meaningful message and you decide to attack the messenger while ignoring the message. [/s]

Before he stated this, we all knew of his tragic leadership and long time in office. By all means he is far from a saint but then we knew that before he talked, rather lets find out why the AU and IC have not been forthcoming action-wise with Libya.

List of Longest Serving World Leaders

Leader:                                                       Country:                  Year:

1. Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah                                 Brunei                   1967
2. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi                               Libya                    1969
3. Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said                         Oman                    1970
4. Prime Minister Khalifa ibn Salman Al Khalifa         Bahrain                  1970
5. President Jos                                            Angola                    1979
6. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo           Equatorial Guinea       1979
7. President Paul Biya                                      Cameroon                1982
8. King Mswati III                                         Swaziland                1986
9. President Yoweri Museveni                              Uganda                   1986
10.President Blaise Compaor                               Burkina Faso             1987
11.President Robert Mugabe                               Zimbabwe                1987
12.Prince Hans Adam II                                    Liechtenstein             1989
13.Bashir Omar al                                          Sudan                       1989
14.Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei                          Iran                        1989
15.President Ali Abdullah Saleh                            Yemen                     1990
16.President Idriss D                                       Chad                       1990
17.President Islam Karimov                                Uzbekistan                 1990
18.President Nursultan Nazarbayev                       Kazakhstan                1990
19.President Isaias Afewerki                              Eritrea                     1991
20.President Emomalii Rahmon                             Tajikistan                  1992
21.Chairman Kim Jong-il                                   Korea, North               1993
22.President Alexander Lukashenko                       Belarus                      1994
23.President Yahya Jammeh                               Gambia, the                1994
24.Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani                      Qatar                       1995
25.Prime Minister Denzil Douglas                         Saint Kitts and Nevis       1995

coming from a man who also happens to appear on the list of the longest serving leaders in the world ?   what credibility does he have to when he himself is

no way better than Ghadaffi or because gambians have not started their own protest ?  

Beaf:

I see you still support Gaddafi, even after his evil actions against his people (which I'm sure you still attribute to America).
Dude, do you have to eat something or smoke something to be this dim? I mean, how do you achieve it?

In a way i envy nigerian politicians - it must be fantastic to have hordes of personal slaves like Beaf who hang on their every word and believe every lie that comes out of their mouths. You can beat, starve and abuse these subhuman robots from now until eternity, it doesnt make the slightest bit of difference, it only makes them more resilient and all they do is keep coming back for more abuse, wow it must be great for these misrulers.

cap28:

In a way i envy nigerian politicians - it must be fantastic to have hordes of personal slaves like Beaf who hang on their every word and believe every lie that comes out of their mouths. You can beat, starve and abuse these subhuman robots from now until eternity, it doesnt make the slightest bit of difference, it only makes them more resilient and all they do is keep coming back for more abuse, wow it must be great for these misrulers.

Funny Gaddafi lover. Aint you defending him today? Cow.

The man is now a mass murderer of his own people, maybe since you last smoked the shiot that derails your mind, you can come up new super-wacky conspiracy theories about how America is behind the Libyan crisis? lol

Mad dunce.

~Bluetooth:

coming from a man who also happens to appear on the list of the longest serving leaders in the world ?   what credibility does he have to when he himself is

no way better than Ghadaffi or because gambians have not started their own protest ?  

The Gambians are terrified of this thug he is extremely ruthless and brutal, he had a journalist killed a few  years back for writing something mildly critical of his regime, he does not tolerate any form of criticism against his dictatorial regime, he even had some british people resident in his country jailed for sending emails to friends criticising his govt:

Jammeh has been accused of restricting freedom of the press. Harsh new press laws were followed by the unsolved killing of Deyda Hydara, editor of The Point newspaper and Gambia correspondent for Reporters Without Borders and the French news agency AFP. Hydara, who had been mildly critical of the Jammeh regime, was brutally gunned down in December 2004. Alhagie Martin, one of Jammeh's closest military aides, has been named in connection with Hydara's killing. It has, however, not been possible to verify the allegation linking Martin with Hydara's slaying. It is widely believed that Jammeh is responsible for Hydara's murder.[28] Jammeh has denied that security agents were involved in the killing.[12]

In April 2004 he called on journalists to obey his government "or go to hell". In June 2005 he stated on radio and television that he has allowed "too much expression" in the country.[29]

A British couple resident in Gambia for 12 years were convicted of sedition for writing private emails critical of the president to friends back home.[30] They were sentenced to one year imprisonment with hard labor, and the woman was released after serving her year, while the man remained imprisoned until September 2010.[31][32]

As of December 2009, internet web sites critical of the government are blocked, such as the US-based Freedom Newspaper.[33]

and this is the turd having the nerve to criticise gadaffi!!


But it gets even worse:

Newspaper reports list dozens of individuals who have disappeared after being picked up by men in plain-clothes, and others who have languished under indefinite detention for months or years without charge or trial.[35] The regional Economic Community of West Africa (ECOWAS) court ordered the Gambia government to produce one journalist who was disappeared.[36][37][38]

and worse still:

In March 2009 Amnesty International reported that up to 1,000 Gambians had been abducted by government-sponsored "witch doctors" on charges of witchcraft, and taken to detention centers where they were forced to drink poisonous concoctions.[39] On May 21, 2009, The New York Times reported that the alleged witch-hunting campaign had been sparked by the President Yahya Jammeh, who believed that the death of his aunt earlier that year could be attributed to witchcraft.[40] Jammeh has also been linked with the 2004 massacre of 44 Ghanaian migrants and 10 other ECOWAS nationals

This is why illiterates should not be allowed to run countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Jammeh

The man is an ''inventor''. Apparently, he has found herbal remedies for HIV and high blood pressure.

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The man is an ''inventor''. Apparently, he has found herbal remedies for HIV and high blood pressure.

i feel so sorry for the Gambian people, because they are peaceful and kind hearted , they don't deserve this joke as their president.

A tale of The Madman of Gambia's actions:

DRESSED in ankle-length vermilion robes, adorned with hundreds of tiny cracked mirrors, the witch-hunters had first been spotted by watchmen, through the flames of their campfires, emerging from the bush in the dead of night.

Aroky Bajung, a mother of six, was one of the first sleeping villagers to wake. She caught fleeting glimpses of ceremonial gowns glinting in the moonlight as the tall strangers flitted between houses like ghosts. She grabbed her children and cowered under her bed, praying for morning to come.

By daybreak the fitful dreams of the villagers of Jambur in western Gambia had become a terrifying reality as they woke to the sound of screams and a spidery trail of blood and animal entrails. Before them, flanked by mysterious red-cloaked strangers, stood the notorious Green Boys, Gambia’s feared private militia.

“We have work to do here,” the soldiers shouted. “The president’s work.”

Within two hours the soldiers had seized more than 100 people. Simultaneously across Gambia another 1,200 suspected witches, both men and women, were rounded up. Shaking with fear, they were taken to secret government detention centres.

Here their nightmare really began. In the name of Yahya Jammeh, Gambia’s dictator, they had been singled out for exorcism. Accused of being witches, they were blamed for the death of the president’s beloved aunt. By nightfall at least six had died after they were forced to drink a mysterious potion. Those who survived the foul concoction spent the following days racked with pain. Some claimed to have bled from their eyeballs.

An Amnesty International report noted that Jammeh, 44, has presided over a dramatic deterioration in human rights. Last week he sacked his ambassador to Washington a day before she was due to meet Amnesty officials to discuss human rights abuses.

Until now the villagers of Jambur and 20 other small communities have been too terrified to speak out against their president and his witch-hunt.

“I remember the scarlet flashes, the glinting of their robes. My children wake up crying, asking me when the men are coming back to take them,” said Bajung, 35. She believes she was seized because she had tried to help an elderly neighbour.

She added: “Here we are taught to worship the elderly. The witch doctors were smearing them with paste and shouting spells at them. When I tried to stop them I was bundled onto an army bus.”

Within an hour she and 100 others from Jambur were taken for a mass exorcism. They were forced to strip and drink the concoction that made them hallucinate and gave them severe pains. “People were vomiting blood and having fits. It was terrifying,” she said.

During the witch-hunts, which were orchestrated by the Green Boys, Jammeh’s most militant supporters, thousands fled over the Senegal border. Others were shot in the head.

In the tiny village of Makumbaya, Hawa Jallow and Kaody Soee, the first and second wives of Mamadou Bah Fulla, 60, said the murder of their husband by the Green Boys had left their family destitute. Jallow said: “The Green Boys said they had come for the witches who had killed the president’s aunt.

They said the president had heard in a dream that witches had come to kill her and now they must pay the price.”

After a few days other villagers began to return but there was no sign of their husband.

“We went to the nearest barracks to ask where he was, but nobody knew,” added Jallow. “A week later we found out he was dead. A doctor who looked at some of the other victims said they had kidney problems from drinking the potion.”

The witch-hunts are only a small part of the deadly and bizarre behaviour of Gambia’s president. In a recent speech in Banjul, the capital, he repeated his belief that all journalists should be killed. Recently he jailed six of Gambia’s most prominent journalists for two years.

Earlier this year Jammeh held a mass demonstration of his homemade cure for Aids. He invited thousands of local victims of the disease to abandon western anti-retroviral drugs and line up at the gates of his palace to try his herbs and banana remedy. A doctor who criticised the call to abandon the medication was jailed.

Superstition and mysticism go hand in hand under Jammeh’s erratic rule. He regularly threatens to behead homosexuals and drive them out of the country. He also declared that only he can drive through the giant arch built to commemorate his 1994 coup.

He has won three elections since seizing power. The first, in 1996, was dismissed as “unfair” by observers and the second, in 2001, was won with 53% of the vote after a campaign marred by bloodshed. He won two-thirds of votes cast in 2006 but opposition leaders complained of intimidation.

Back in Jambur, Karomo Bojang, an imam, is one of 40 Muslims taken in the witch-hunts. “Why did they use witch doctors to force me and my neighbours to drink some unworldly potion?,” he asked.

“We are living among madness. Our lives are in the hands of a lunatic.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article6797697.ece

cap28:



i feel so sorry for the Gambian people, because they are peaceful and kind hearted , they don't deserve this joke as their president. 

Because he challenged your Gaddafi? lol

Beaf:

Because he challenged your Gaddafi? lol

No because they are being misruled by an unhinged psycopath who belongs in the 7th century, can someone put that ugly MF out of his misery and put some of that poison he's been giving to his people in his food.

cap28:

No because they are being misruled by an unhinged psycopath who belongs in the 7th century, can someone put that ugly MF out of his misery and put some of that poison he's been giving to his people in his food.

lol, Gaddafi lover!

Please tell us your next psychedelic tale of how America is influencing the Libyan masses against the great man-god, Gaddafi.
When you're done, tell us what you smoke.

[img]http://mouthswiredshut.files./2008/12/psychedelic-mushroom.gif?w=265&h=360[/img]

www.nairaland.com/attachments/180447_ROTFLMAO_gif3d0c775232c7f27cf80592785b9635b6

Beaf i honestly don't know how you've escaped being institutionalised all these years!!!

So after reading about your mentor Yahaya Jammeh who administers poison personally to his citizens on the grounds that they may be witches you have come to the conclusion that it is Gadaffi that is crazy and not your own idol Yahaya Jammeh na wah oh - you seem to be going downhill even faster than i thought.