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Breaking News: Media Foundation Reacts To Freedom Story- Editors Clarify!!!
Friday, May 16, 2008 (8 reads)

Dear Editor,

We find your report on Yahya Dampha disappointing and disturbing because it is factually incorrect. While the MFWA continues to work for the safety of persecuted journalists from The Gambia and elsewhere, we have not directly been involved or assisted Mr. Dampha in moving from anywhere to Ghana or any other country.

We would like to request the Freedom Newspaper to strive to be accurate.
Such erroneous publications do harm to the work to defend victims of rights
abuses. Misrepresentations of this kind rather aid the repressive machinery
of governments like President Yahya Jammeh's in The Gambia.

If the Freedom Newspaper wants to support the fight for freedom in The
Gambia it must first insist on the truth at all times.

We kindly request you to disseminate the correction as widely as you have
circulated the false report.

Prof. Kwame Karikari

Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)

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Editors note: We deeply regret for any discomfort the said story might have caused to your organization and other parties involved. Our source mistaken Yahya Dampha with Pa Ousman Darboe. It was Mr. Darboe who arrived in New York and not Yahya Dampha. To err is human and we therefore apologize for any discomfort caused by the said story.

The Freedom Newspaper is committed in reporting the truth and nothing but the truth. We strongly disagree with your erroneous perception about the Freedom Newspaper. This paper will never depart from its mission statement.

The said story was reported in good faith without malice or ill-will. Our patriotism and commitment towards Gambia’s liberation cannot be questioned because we always adhered to the highest ethics of journalism.

The case of a mistaken identity, is not sufficient ground to chastise us. We stood by our sources. It was the Media Foundation who helped Ousman Darboe to settle into the United States. We said this without any remorse.

Based on the information we gathered, Yahya Dampha is said to be in Sweden and not in the US.

We have high regard for professor Karikari, but the truth be told this statement is least to be desired. We have not committed any crime to warrant such misjudgments and misleading conclusions.

You demanded a retraction for the story, without telling us the true side of the story. If you want to correct us, you need to report the true side of the story. When you sent in rejoinders, you need to back up your assertions with factual arguments and not mere insinuations.

The media should be accountable to the public at all times. What’s wrong with reporting the resettlement of Yahya Dampha or Ousman Darboe? What threat have we committed by exposing the story? Are these people for real?

Finally, we want to assure the Media Foundation that the Freedom Newspaper is committed in Gambia’s liberation. This paper is here for all and sundry. No outside party can dictate to us how to run the Freedom Newspaper. Thanks for your attention.

Correction: It was Editor Ousman Darboe and family who arrived in New York and not Yahya Dampha!! Reader clarifies
Friday, May 16, 2008 (29 reads)

Just to help you. It was not Yahya Dampha, it was Ousman Darboe instead. The former observer reporter who testified on behalf of MFWA in the chief manneh trial in Nigeria because he was an eye witness to the arrest. Just to help you. I know you didn't mean ill intentions for Yaya Dampha, it's just that your source did not inform you fully. So it is indeed Ousman who had been in Ghana since late last year with his wife and twin babies.

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Important Announcement: Freedom Newspaper New Cell Number is: 919-749-63-19
Friday, May 16, 2008 (97 reads)

Important Announcement: The Freedom Newspaper contact cell number has changed. The new cell number is: 919-749-6319 The cell number: 919-798-81-22 would be terminated by month end. The corporate line remains the same, which is 919-872-50-28. Please take note of these changes. Our sources in the heart of the Jammeh Government are being informed about the change of cell number. Feel free to call at anytime of the day and night. We would be more than glad to attend to you. We thank you for your attention.

Signed:

Freedom Newspaper Editorial Board,

Raleigh, NC

USA

Breaking News: Jollas Owns The Gambia??? A Survey Report Says Jammeh Discriminates At Other Tribes!!!
Thursday, May 15, 2008 (1019 reads)

Breaking News: Jollas Owns The

Gambia

??? A Survey Report Says Jammeh Discriminates At Other Tribes!!!

By Justice Sam, Banjul

The Gambia is in the hands of Jollas these days. The President has marginalized other tribes to the detriment of the nation. A random survey of his Government suggests that more and more Jollas are being entrusted with key positions in Government. From March to date, the President has been hiring his own ethnic group, entrusting them with key positions in Government. Here the list goes on……..

Gen. Lang Tombong Tamba: Army Chief, Jolla

Ousman Sonko: Interior Minister, Jolla

Benedic Jammeh: Inspector General of police,Jolla

Modou Lamin Jarju NIA DG,Jolla

Essa Tamba: Police Crime Coordinator, Jolla

Lt Sillah Kujabi, Commanding officer, Naval Command, Jolla

Lt.Colonel Lamin Bojang: Officer, Guards Battalion, Jolla

Fatim Badjie: Information Minister Jolla

Modou Sanyang: GRTS DG Jolla

Breaking News: Former Foroyaa Reporter Yahya Dampha Arrives In The US With His Family!!!
Thursday, May 15, 2008 (776 reads)

Breaking News: Former Foroyaa Reporter Yahya Dampha Arrives In The

With His Family!!!

By An Editor

The exiled Foroyaa Newspaper Reporter Yahya Dampha, arrived in United States Tuesday, accompanied by his wife and twin kids, the Freedom Newspaper can authoritatively report. Mr. Dampha who narrowly escape state sponsored abduction in Dakar was quickly moved to Ghana, thanks to the support of the Media Foundation For West Africa. Mr. Dampha and his family are currently residing in New York City, said our source.

Breaking News: NRP'S Buray Jawo Reacts To Lamarana Jallow's scary revelations about Hamat Bah!!
Thursday, May 15, 2008 (871 reads)

By Buray Alhpha Jawo, NRP Official

Pa, i read your Lamarana Jallow file on Hon Hamat Bah making wild allegations about fraudulent visa, tribalism and being a security threat inter alia.What srike me in the first place is, the reporter in line five. '' The President, Lang Tombong Tamba and myself had a meeting about what needs to be done '' .To me that is where the credibility of your reporter is shartered.He merely cannot be the one person meeting the president with Lang and become Pa Nderrys freedom news paper anonymous reporter.Practically impossible,because he will not be anonymous to president jammeh who will not allow lamarana to tarnish his government.

Buray Confirms

PS Njie's Visa Denial !!!

Breaking News:Lamarana Jallow releases A Disturbing File About Hamat Bah!!
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 (1481 reads)

Lamarana Jallow releases A Disturbing File About Hamat Bah!!

NIA File Linked Waa Juwara To Conspiracy To Get Hamat Killed!!!

Bah’s Alleged Visa Fraud Exposed by Lamarana!!

By Lamarana Jallow, Son Of The Gambia

I am back online with damning revelations against the President Yahya Jammeh. Today, I want to share disturbing intelligence report with The Gambian population. Waa Juwara has been briefing us about the activities of Hamat Bah. The President, Lang Tombong Tamba and myself had a meeting about what needs to be done. Hamat Bah should watch his back because there are sinister plans reached to implicate him. The President wants Lang to use certain men of the jungullars to deal with him. Waa Juwara has informed us that Hamat Bah wants to incite ethnic violence in The Gambia. He has also informed us that Bah has been preaching tribalism in the country. Juwara also told the President that unless Hamat Bah is cowed there cannot be peace in the country.

PS M Njie Former Citizen FM Presenter

Jammeh confirms what he confessed in hiding the Fulani ethnic group is his next target!
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 (1324 reads)

Jammeh confirms what he confessed in hiding the Fulani ethnic group is his next target!

The latest venom from Yahya Jammeh confirms whispers that were around him all these years. Its been a while now people close to President Jammeh have been spiraling all sorts of whispers about what he said regarding the Gambian Fulani tribe. Jammeh during one of his sessions at his zoo confessed what a marabout told him about the Fulani ethnic group. He said the marabout revealed a dream to him, in which he saw a calabash full of milk in the middle of the state house yard. This according to the marabout means Jammeh will be replaced by a Fulani.

Editorial: Have Gambians Betrayed Waa Juwara???
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 (978 reads)

Editorial: Have Gambians Betrayed Waa Juwara???

The opposition NDAM has been buried to the dustbin of history. The Party which claimed that it was out to redeem The Gambia from political decadence, maladministration, injustices and oppression had betrayed all its principles it stood for. The death of NDAM has been announced with Waa Juwara joining the Ruling APRC. The party’s past struggle against the Jammeh leadership has been rendered counterproductive following this unilateral decision from Juwara to part with his colleagues. We say sorry to NDAM’S External Wing. Juwara has done it again!!! A buried truth shall rise again!! The Freedom Newspaper has been vindicated.

OVER 300 YARDS OWNERS IN WESTERN REGION ACCUSE OF TAX EVASION
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 (390 reads)

OVER 300 YARDS OWNERS IN WESTERN REGION ACCUSE OF TAX EVASION

OVER 300 YARD OWNERS IN WESTERN REGION ACCUSE OF TAX EVASION

BY WISE MAN

Over 300 compound owners in Western Region are presently in hot waters for failing to settle their compound rates and taxes, the Freedom Newspaper can authoritatively reveal. According to a top-level official at the Brikama Area Council(BAC), 'these' yard owners who have been accused of not paying their compound rates for the past 20 years, will soon be arraigned before a magistrates' court in Brikama to answer charges levelled against them and if found guilty they might spend long years behind bars.