#Gambian President

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Perhaps people don't realize that for about a decade now international aid packages have literally been conditioned on nations adopting certain policies around lgbt rights, but even this 12-year-old article from VOA of all places is capable of describing how this foments hatred toward lgbt people throughout the rest of the society

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Gambia's parliament of 58 lawmakers includes five women. If the bill eventually passes through parliament, President Adama Barrow is expected to sign it into law. He has not spoken publicly about the legislation."

Ladies, this is why "every vote counts" means everywhere elections are held. Vote more women into office

Lawmakers in Gambia have referred a repeal of the 2015 ban on female genital cutting for further committee discussions

By ABDOULIE JOHN Associated Press and JESSICA DONATI Associated Press

March 18, 2024, 8:49 AM

SERREKUNDA, Gambia -- Lawmakers in Gambia referred an attempted repeal of the 2015 ban on female genital cutting for further committee discussions on Monday.

Gambian activists fear a repeal would overturn years of work to better protect girls and women. The legislation was referred to a national committee for further debate and could return to a vote in the weeks and months ahead.

Activists in the largely Muslim country had warned that lifting the ban would hurt years of work against a procedure often performed on girls younger than 5 in the mistaken belief that it would control their sexuality.

The procedure, which also has been called female genital mutilation, includes the partial or full removal of external genitalia, often by traditional community practitioners with tools such as razor blades or at times by health workers. It can cause serious bleeding, death and childbirth complications but remains a widespread practice in parts of Africa.

Jaha Dukureh, the founder of Safe Hands for Girls, a local group that aims to end the practice, told The Associated Press she worried that other laws safeguarding women’s rights could be repealed next. Dukureh underwent the procedure and watched her sister bleed to death.

“If they succeed with this repeal, we know that they might come after the child marriage law and even the domestic violence law. This is not about religion but the cycle of controlling women and their bodies,” she said. The United Nations has estimated that more than half of women and girls ages 15 to 49 in Gambia have undergone the procedure.

The bill is backed by religious conservatives in the nation of less than 3 million people. Its text says that “it seeks to uphold religious purity and safeguard cultural norms and values." The country’s top Islamic body has called the practice “one of the virtues of Islam."

Gambia's former leader, Yahya Jammeh, banned the practice in 2015 in a surprise to activists and with no public explanation. Since the law took effect, enforcement has been weak, with only two cases prosecuted.

On Monday, a crowd of men and women gathered outside Gambia's parliament, some carrying signs protesting the bill. Police in riot gear held them back.

Gambia's parliament of 58 lawmakers includes five women. If the bill eventually passes through parliament, President Adama Barrow is expected to sign it into law. He has not spoken publicly about the legislation.

The United States has supported activists who are trying to stop the practice. Earlier this month, it honored Gambian activist Fatou Baldeh at the White House with an International Women of Courage Award.

The U.S. Embassy in Gambia declined to say whether any high-level U.S. official in Washington had reached out to Gambian leaders over the bill. In its emailed statement, Geeta Rao Gupta, the top U.S. envoy for global women's issues, called it “incredibly important” to listen to the voices of survivors like Baldeh.

The chairperson of the local Center for Women’s Rights and Leadership, Fatou Jagne Senghore said the bill is “aimed at curtailing women’s rights and reversing the little progress made in recent years.” The president of the local Female Lawyers Association, Anna Njie, said the practice “has been proven to cause harm through medical evidence.”

UNICEF said earlier this month that some 30 million women globally have undergone female genital cutting in the past eight years, most of them in Africa but some in Asia and the Middle East.

More than 80 countries have laws prohibiting the procedure or allowing it to be prosecuted, according to a World Bank study cited this year by a United Nations Population Fund Q&A published earlier this year. They include South Africa, Iran, India and Ethiopia.

“No religious text promotes or condones female genital mutilation,” the UNFPA report says, adding there is no benefit to it.

Girls are subjected to the procedure at ages ranging from infancy to adolescence. Long term, it can lead to urinary tract infections, menstrual problems, pain, decreased sexual satisfaction and childbirth complications as well as depression, low self-esteem and post-traumatic stress disorder.

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BELLINZONA, Switzerland (Reuters) -A woman cried on Wednesday as she testified to a Swiss court that a former Liberian rebel commander had raped her repeatedly during the country's civil war, on the first day of his appeal to overturn 22 convictions for war crimes.

While Alieu Kosiah is appealing the 2021 ruling Swiss prosecutors are arguing that he also committed crimes against humanity, which could increase his 20-year sentence if his conviction is upheld and he is found guilty on these counts.

Kosiah, who fought against former Liberian president Charles Taylor's army in the 1990s, was convicted on charges including rape, murder and cannibalism in Switzerland's first ever war crimes trial. The court is now considering crimes against humanity for the first time in a Swiss trial.

The public left the courtroom to allow a plaintiff, who said she was raped by Kosiah at the age of 14, to continue her testimony. "I was told I would be his wife," she told the court. "If I didn't go (with him), he would have killed me. He forced me four times."

Kosiah was arrested in 2014 in Switzerland, where he had been living as a permanent resident. A 2011 Swiss law allows prosecution for serious crimes committed anywhere, under the principle of universal jurisdiction.

Kosiah told the court he had never met the woman. "It's not because someone gets emotional that she is right," he said. His lawyer Dimitri Gianoli says he was not present when the war crimes were allegedly committed.

During Liberia's back-to-back wars between 1989-2003 thousands of people were mutilated and raped in clashes that involved drugged fighters and marauding child soldiers conscripted by warlords.

Unlike neighbouring Sierra Leone, engulfed in civil war at the same time and which later held war crimes trials, no prosecutions have taken place in Liberia. The victims testifying in Switzerland have asked for anonymity for fear of reprisals. Some former warlords still hold major positions in the country.

Alain Werner, a Swiss lawyer and director at Civitas Maxima who is representing the victims, said he was confident but it was a complicated case. "Sometimes it's just their word against his and these are things that happened 30 years ago."

The court will later hear from a man who alleged he witnessed Kosiah eat slices of a man's heart and another who accuses him of stabbing him and ordering killings.

The three judges will make a ruling later this year.

Observers hope the case will galvanise other lengthy Swiss probes yet to go to court, including a torture case against a former Gambian minister and a war crimes case against a former Algerian junta leader.

Momentum is growing outside of Liberia for justice for war-time atrocities. In November, a former Liberian rebel commander was sentenced to life in prison by a French court and a Finnish appeals court is hearing a Liberia war crimes case.

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Yeah. It's not like Hezbollah is a literal terrorist organization that abducts Lebanese, Syrian, and Gambian people into sex trafficking and literal slavery.

It certainly isn't like Hezbollah's stated mission is to destroy Israel. Or like it's been bombing civilian areas in northern Israel for about a year and a half now, to the point that 10% of Israel is on fire and depopulated.

This is obviously a massive land grab straight out of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

It's not like Nasrallah publicly referred to Israel as "our land."

And I think we ALL KNOW that reversing antisemitic beliefs/acts to project them onto Jewish communities is uh... (checks notes) smart, unusual, and a good way to understand what they're plotting.

Obviously if they deleted a frankly unhinged, possibly AI attempt at a """think piece""" that literally everyone on all sides objects to, it's a sneaky Nazi cover-up, like it says in the notes on this post.

Nasrallah has also repeatedly vowed to destroy Israel. “It is an aggressive, illegal and illegitimate entity, which has no future in our land,” he said in 2005. “Its destination is manifested in our motto, ‘Death to Israel’.”

A senior Hezbollah source has revealed that the leaders killed in an Israeli airstrike on Friday were meeting to plan a ground invasion of Israel, similar to the deadly October 7 attack by Hamas. The source told Al-Monitor that members of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force were discussing “plans for a ground invasion at the heart of the occupied territories,” using language that reflects Hezbollah’s stance that all of Israel is occupied territory. The Israeli strike targeted top Hezbollah leaders Ibrahim Aqil and Ahmed Wahbi, along with at least 14 other senior commanders of the Radwan Force, as they gathered in the basement of a residential building in Beirut.... Hezbollah intended to invade northern Israel, seize control of Galilee communities, and commit widespread violence, including murder and kidnappings of Israeli civilians.

Hezbollah has literally always been this way. It's not like Hamas: this is not something it tries to spin with faux-progressive vocabulary, or cover up by calling itself the resistance, or by changing its messaging depending on who's listening.

Even 15 years ago, it was on the same bullshit:

Hezbollah's aim is not to "end the occupation of Palestine," or even to "liberate all of Palestine." Its goal is to kill the world's Jews. Listen to the words of its leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah: "If Jews all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide." (NY Times, May 23, 2004, p. 15, section 2, column 1.) His genocidal goals--to kill all Jews--were proven by two recent statements. He has warned the Arabs and Muslims to leave Haifa so that his rockets can kill only Jews. And he apologized for causing the deaths of three Israeli-Arabs in Nazareth, when a Katuysha struck that religiously mixed Israeli city. Hezbollah also worked hand-in-hand with Argentine neo-Nazis to blow up a Jewish community center, murdering dozens of Jews. Nasrallah is a modern day Hitler, who currently lacks the capacity to carry out his genocide. But he is an ally of Iran, which will soon have the capacity to kill Israel's five million Jews... listen to the current President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who denies the Nazi Holocaust, but calls for a modern Holocaust that would "wipe Israel off the map."

Lmao they deleted it

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Ukraine and The Gambia revive diplomatic relations after 20-year pause

President Volodymyr Zelensky held his first conversation with Gambian leader Adama Barrow, marking a renewal of diplomatic relations after a 20-year pause. Zelensky thanked Barrow for The Gambia’s par Source : kyivindependent.com/ukraine-a…

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President Yahya Jammeh (born May 25, 1965) is a Gambian politician and former military officer who was the second president of Gambia (1994-2017). He ruled Gambia for 23 years after rising to power as a young army officer in a bloodless military coup in 1994 that ousted Dawda Jawara who had been the first president of Gambia. He was officially elected the second president of The Gambia in 1996 and reelected in 2001, 2006, and 2011. He was defeated in the 2016 Gambian presidential election and was forced to step down from power in 2017.

He was born in Kanilai, Gambia. He joined the Gambian National Army in 1984 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in 1989. In August 1992, he became commanding officer of the Military Police of Yundum Barracks. He received extensive military training from neighboring Senegal and military police training at Fort McClellan, Alabama.

The Jammeh-led AFPRC suspended the constitution, sealed the borders, and implemented a nationwide curfew. His new government justified the coup by decrying corruption and the absence of democracy under the Jawara regime. Army personnel were dissatisfied with their salaries, living conditions, and prospects for promotions.

He married Tuti Faal (1994-1998). He married Zeinab Suma (1999) and the couple had two children, a daughter and a son. He married Alima Sallah (2010-2011). #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Swiss court jails Gambia ex-minister for 20 years.

Complainants in the legal case against Gambia’s ex-interior minister Ousman Sonko travelled to southern Switzerland for the opening of the trial in January  A Swiss court has sentenced a former Gambian minister to 20 years in prison for crimes against humanity. Ousman Sonko fled to Switzerland in 2016, shortly before Gambian President Yahya Jammeh was forced out of power after refusing to admit…

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Swiss Court Convicts Ousman Sonko, Ex-Gambian Minister, of Crimes Against Humanity

Ousman Sonko, who served under an autocratic president now in exile, was found guilty of multiple counts of intentional homicide, torture and false imprisonment against citizens of the West African country. source https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/world/africa/gambia-crimes-switzerland-conviction.html

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King Congratulates Gambian President on Independence Day R / X http://dlvr.it/T2wJ4S

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Ousman Sonko: Gambian ex-minister goes on trial in Switzerland for murder

Ousman Sonko is accused of crimes against humanity for abuses under former President Yahya Jammeh. from BBC News – World https://ift.tt/0bOU6Bh via IFTTT

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By • Olalekan Fagbade Gambia’s President Adama Barrow has suspended himself and all government officials from foreign travel to reduce public spending, a government spokesman announced Saturday. Barrow signed an executive order “suspending all overseas travels by the president, the vice-president, cabinet ministers, senior government officials, civil servants and employees across all government institutions and agencies,” for the rest of the fiscal year, presidential spokesman Ebrima Sankareh said in a statement. Meetings where Gambian participation is compulsory and foreign trips entirely financed by external sources will be exempt #foreigntrips #Gambia #GambianPresident #Govtofficials #publicspending #WestAfrica #Westaf

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Watch "MILITARY GUY SEND DIRECT MESSAGE TO PRES. TINUBU, SENEGAL, GHANIAN AND GAMBIAN PRESIDENT OVER NIGER" on YouTube

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Astrological Outlook and Character Analysis for Individuals with a May 16th Birthday

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 On the off chance that your birthday is May 16, your zodiac sign is Taurus May 16 - character and character character: tireless, delicate, genuine, contemptuous, chatty, mean; calling: rancher, spy, turner; colors: red, olive, ruby; stone: red emerald; animal: chameleon; plant: woman's shroud; fortunate numbers: 7,14,40,46,51,52 very fortunate number: 9 Occasions and observances - May 16 Global Day of Living respectively in Harmony In Costa Rica it is the Public Day of the Microbiologist and Clinical Physicist. Global Day of Light May 16 Superstar Birthday. 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Chaoter 13 Fieldwork

On May 6th, I interviewed a Gambian 47 year old woman. She came to America because she wanted better for her and her family. The President Gambia is “power hungry” and he doesn’t work to actually help his people. Healthcare access was a push factor that influenced her to migrate to America. She wanted to make sure her family has as much access to medication for anything they need. The education system in Gambia was also a factor that pushed her to migrate to America. Teachers in Gambia were abusive and she didn’t want to put her kids through the trauma of schooling in their country. It’s also difficult to get a “good enough paying”job in Gambia, she was barely making enough to get her children’s necessities. This Gambian woman had sisters, brothers, nieces, and nephews that lived in Gambia with her. This was a pull factor that made her hesitate from migrating at first. She had to migrate to make sure that her closest family, sons, and daughters, were safe and taken care of to her best ability. One of the barriers that put a “bump in her road” was the process of getting papers. It took two to three years to get papers for them to migrate. Once they got the papers, she had to send her kids to Americas first, one son and one daughter, for almost a year before she could actually migrate herself. During that year, her daughter got sick and she couldn’t be there with her to take care of her. Part of her wanted to just reunite her family in Gambia, and another part of her was trying to rush and get to her children. The whole process itself was another barrier that got in her way. During this process, she met her husband. He was from New York and they had been communicating for months. He traveled to Maryland to help with her daughter without her mother even being present. This made things easier for her to worry about what she had going on and feeling like her kids were safe. This made the process smooth and gave her more of a “bridge” to help her migrate. Once she migrated, she reunited with her family. She met her future husband and got a well paying job. She was able to realize that her experience was rough but it was all worth it in the end.