Essential The Africa the Media Doesn't Tell You About

[Frangala]

:Sonofabytch:

Run off on the people....these jokers (corrupt as fuuck politicians anywhere) are the worst. No wonder he didn't want to leave. In an African context, it's double worse cause the people not only got Deeboed, but have nothing to show for someone's time in office. He was trying to stuff as much loose change in his pocket as possible.....$11 million in loose change.

Yea it's sad apparently he has stolen billions while in power but still greedy to make off with $11 million which more than twice the bill of civil servants in his country ($4 million)

 

[BigMan]

I heard his daughter lives in the states

 

[thatrapsfan]

Yea it's sad apparently he has stolen billions while in power but still greedy to make off with $11 million which more than twice the bill of civil servants in his country ($4 million)

Have been reading the 11 million claim was erroneous. He did take his cars though.

 

[Frangala]

I heard his daughter lives in the states

Not a surprise. A lot of these men are looting their own countries and recognize that the schools, infrastructure or hospitals are not good enough for them but expect the citizens to tolerate the poor infrastructure while they send their children to live in the developed world. The new recent thing is sending their wives to give birth in the US because of birth right citizenship in case there is a trouble back home their wives and children are protected.

 

[newworldafro]

Yea it's sad apparently he has stolen billions while in power but still greedy to make off with $11 million which more than twice the bill of civil servants in his country ($4 million)

Billions???

Looking at wikipedia, led a coup in 1994. Has been re-elected over 23 years. He's a colorful individual...www.wikipedia.com/yahya_jammeh

Have been reading the 11 million claim was erroneous. He did take his cars though.

Interesting. How do you know who do you believe...

 

[Yehuda]

Gambia's new president names female VP who vowed to prosecute Jammeh

Date 24.01.2017

President Adama Barrow has appointed as deputy leader a woman who had vowed to prosecute exiled leader Yahya Jammeh. Barrow, still in Senegal, said the appointment was designed to address gender imbalance.

Gambian President Adama Barrow's newly appointed vice president, Fatoumata Tambajang (photo right), is a former United Nations Development Program staffer who was instrumental in uniting Gambia's opposition parties against Jammeh.

Tambajang became a controversial figure after telling "The Guardian" newspaper late last year that Jammeh, who took power in a coup 22 years ago, would be prosecuted for crimes committed by his regime. Shortly after her comments were published Jammeh backtracked on conceding his December 1 election defeat, triggering a political crisis.

A regional force halted their advance into Gambia's capital, Banjul, to allow diplomatic talks to proceed

She also argued for a national commission for asset recovery to recover land and goods Jammeh allegedly seized for his own gain.

Tambajang was the first cabinet member to be announced by the newly-inaugurated Barrow, who is still in neighboring Senegal amid fears for his safety.

Government spokesman Halifa Sallah said the rest of Barrow's government would be unveiled on Tuesday.

Ex-leader Jammeh dissolved the government, half of whom had already resigned, during a political crisis in which he refused to step down despite last month's election loss and losing his mandate in January.

After weeks of negotiations and an incursion by military forces assembled by a West African regional bloc, Jammeh flew to Equatorial Guinea on Saturday.

As part of his deal to leave peacefully, he was assured immunity from prosecution and as Equatorial Guinea is not a member of the International Criminal Court he could not be extradited for crimes against humanity.

Jammeh exiled himself to Equatorial Guinea which is not a party to the International Criminal Court

Diplomacy avoided bloodshed

The UN said Monday that preventive diplomacy had avoided bloodshed, restored democracy and averted a "humanitarian disaster."

UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said if diplomacy had not worked, "we would have seen a far worse situation."

Barrow's spokesman said he prefers a truth and reconciliation committee to deal with grievances against Jammeh's regime, but many Gambians favor the view of his new vice president.

Rights groups alleged that sections of the security services were under Jammeh's personal control and were responsible for extrajudicial killings, torture and arbitrary detention.

Jammeh drained state coffers

Before Jammeh left on the weekend he siphoned off about US$11.5 million (10.6 million euros) from state coffers and flew out luxury vehicles, associates of Barrow have alleged.

"Over two weeks, over 500 million dalasi were withdrawn" by Jammeh, said Barrow adviser Mai Fatty. "As we take over, the government of The Gambia is in financial distress."

Tens of thousands of Gambians, who fled the country fearing violence, have returned in recent days

That amount represented 1.2 percent of Gambia's 2015 GDP, according to World Bank figures.

Gambia's central bank deposits were "intact," a spokesman for Barrow said Monday.

Troops from the West African bloc known as ECOWAS have continued to remove Gambian soldiers from the president's official residence, State House. They also took charge of a Republican Guard barracks training center in Bakau, just outside the capital, Banjul.

In the final days of the crisis the leader of Gambia's armed forces defected from Jammeh and swore allegiance to Barrow, but concerns remained over the force's historical loyalty to Jammeh.

aw/cmk (AP, AFP)

Gambia's new president names female VP who vowed to prosecute Jammeh | News | DW.COM | 24.01.2017

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

http://www.newsweek.com/nigerian-governors-blame-immigrant-herdsmen-deadly-pastoral-conflict-548067

NIGERIAN GOVERNORS BLAME IMMIGRANT HERDSMEN FOR DEADLY PASTORAL CONFLICT
BY CONOR GAFFEY ON 1/25/17 AT 11:37 AM

Governors in northern Nigeria have pledged to secure regional borders to address the fighting between roaming Fulani herdsmen and farming communities, a conflict which was more deadly than the Boko Haram insurgency in 2016.

The leaders of 19 northern states met in the Nigerian city of Kaduna on Monday and Tuesday to discuss the ongoing insecurity in the region. Kashim Shettima, the governor of Borno state and chairman of the Northern Governors’ Forum, said most of the herdsmen involved in attacks were immigrants from Senegal and Mali, according to the News Agency of Nigeria.

The Fulani is a primarily nomadic ethnic group scattered across West Africa. Fulani herdsmen follow their livestock along traditional migratory patterns, which has brought them into conflict with settled farming communities in northern and central Nigeria. Herdsmen accuse farmers of cattle rustling, while the farmers say that the nomadic herdsmen’s livestock destroy their crops.

A burnt classroom at the Okokolo Community Secondary School, Benue state, Nigeria, May 10, 2016, following attacks by Fulani herdsmen. The conflict between settled farming communities and herdsmen reportedly claimed more lives last year than the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria.EMMANUEL AREWA/AFP/GETTY

The pastoral conflict claimed almost 1,900 lives in 2016, according to a December 2016 report by Nigerian security consultancy SBM Intelligence.

Although the report found that Boko Haram carried out a higher number of attacks, the total number of fatalities caused by the Islamist militant group seeking to establish a caliphate in northern Nigeria was much lower, at 1,240.

Shettima said that the Northern Governors’ Forum had “mapped out new strategies” to ensure that indigenous Fulani herdsmen could graze their cattle without having to move across Nigeria, thereby reducing the potential for coming into conflict with farming communities.

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A series of July 2015 reports by humanitarian agency Mercy Corps found that four states where the herdsmen-farmer conflict was particularly intense—Benue, Kaduna, Nassarawa and Plateau—stood to gain up to $13.7 billion annually in macroeconomic benefits if the fighting was reduced to near-zero.

Killings have spiked recently in southern Kaduna, with Fulani herdsmen reportedly carrying outsignificant attacks over the Christmas period. The governor of Kaduna state, Nasir el-Rufai, has also admitted to paying non-Nigerian herdsmen to stop carrying out attacks.

Nigeria has faced significant security challenges in recent years. As well as the counter-insurgency against Boko Haram, militants in the Niger Delta upped attacks on oil pipelines and facilities in 2016. The consequent drop in oil output pushed Nigeria, one of Africa’s biggest economies, into recession in August 2016.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is also facing a separatist movement in the southeast of the country, as several groups push for an independent state of Biafra. Amnesty International has said that security forces have killed at least 150 pro-Biafra activists in the southeastern city of Onitsha in May 2016, allegations which the Nigerian Army has denied.

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Nigeria's Northern Governors are lying.

 

[Red Shield]

Nigeria's Northern Governors are lying.

What about? It being the herdsmen?

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

What about? It being the herdsmen?

They said the herdsman were from Senegal, Mali and even Libya

 

[CoochieWhisperer]

Yea it's sad apparently he has stolen billions while in power but still greedy to make off with $11 million which more than twice the bill of civil servants in his country ($4 million)

Yep has billions hidden in his private banks.

I heard his daughter lives in the states

And his wife Zeinab has a mansion in Potomac, Maryland. My fam were going to protest at her in front of her crib if she tried to weasel in the states prior to Jammeh's departure. From a Moroccan prostitute to the former First Lady of the Gambia and the bytch still ain't shyt.

 

[loyola llothta]

I heard his daughter lives in the states

dont they all

 

[loyola llothta]

UK Court Blocks Nigerian Tribe's Claim Against Oil Giant Shell

More than 40,000 residents in the Niger River Delta have been demanding action against Shell over decades of oil spills in the region.

A Nigerian tribe received with “great disappointment” the decision taken by a British court on Thursday to block pollution claims against Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell.

Members of the Ogale and Bille communities, represented by London law firm Leigh Day, had applied for the case to be heard in Britain, arguing they could not get justice in Nigeria, but the High Court in London said it did not have jurisdiction in the case.

"Our community is disappointed but not discouraged by this judgement," King Emere Godwin Bebe Okpabi, ruler of the Ogale Community, said in a statement.

More than 40,000 Niger River Delta residents, who depend on fishing and farming for their livelihoods, have been demanding action against Shell over decades of oil spills in the region.

Full Article:

UK Court Blocks Nigerian Tribe's Claim Against Oil Giant Shell

 

[Yehuda]

CAMEROON'S ANGLOPHONE AREAS SUFFER INTERNET BLACKOUT

English-speaking regions of Cameroon continue to suffer an internet blackout after Anglophone teachers, lawyers and students went on strike against the government’s alleged bias towards Francophones

Wednesday marks the eighth day since the authorities ordered the country’s telecommunications providers to shut off internet connections to the regions of Northwest and Southwest.

Al Jazeera reached out to Communications Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary, the country’s minister of communications, who pledged to comment on the situation but he has yet to do so.

The internet blackout came after the government outlawed at least two Anglophone groups – Southern Cameroons National Council and the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium – and arrested some of their leaders.

The groups had been pushing for so-called Ghost Town actions, in which they urge members of the public to stay at home and shops and businesses to shut.

The aim is to peacefully protest against what activists call the marginalisation of the English-speaking regions by government imposing the French language on their schools and courts.

The towns of Bamenda, Yuku, Nkambe and Buea came to a standstill on January 9, according to pictures and videos posted online.

Using hashtag Bring-Back-Our-Internet, many on social media expressed their outrage at the government’s response to the protest.

Protests in the Anglophone regions have been going on for years, but intensified late last year when protests turned violent.

Anglophone teachers, lawyers and students have been on strike since early December with many urging peaceful protests to call for the establishment of a two-state federation.

On Monday, Cameroonian President Paul Biya reportedly signed a decree establishing the National Commission of Bilingualism and Multiculturalism in the country.

Activists, however, rejected the measure saying their strikes and protests are about more than language.

The discontent

Areas controlled by Britain and France joined to form Cameroon after the colonial powers withdrew in the 1960s.

As a result, the country now has 10 semi-autonomous administrative regions; eight are Francophone, while the Northwest and Southwest regions are home to approximately five million English-speakers.

Anglophones in the country have long complained that they face discrimination, saying that they are excluded from state jobs as a result of their limited French language skills.

They also complain that official documents are often only published in French, even though English is also an official language.

READ MORE: Cameroon teachers, lawyers strike in battle for English

There are issues in the judicial sector as well.

The country’s legal system is largely based on French civil law, but English-speaking regions still operate under the English common law.

Cameroonian lawyers say that the government is sending French-educated civil law judges who do not understand English common law to their courts.

Anglophone Cameroonians believe that only a complete overhaul of the administrative departments in the country and an inclusive federal constitution can end their woes.

Cameroon had adopted a federal government system in the 1960s but this system was later dropped after a referendum.

Cameroon's Anglophone areas suffer internet blackout

 

[BigMan]

Yep has billions hidden in his private banks.



And his wife Zeinab has a mansion in Potomac, Maryland. My fam were going to protest at her in front of her crib if she tried to weasel in the states prior to Jammeh's departure. From a Moroccan prostitute to the former First Lady of the Gambia and the bytch still ain't shyt.

not gonna lie she bad