“If President Jammeh denies my body to enter the Gambia, bury me in Madina Qunas in Senegal,” Late Bubacarr Micheal Baldeh As if the political hero knew what would happen after his death, Bubacarr Baldeh instructed close relatives that, if he didn’t recover from the stomach complication from which […]
Month: July 2014
Boko Haram Spiritual Leader Reveals Abducted Girls’ Condition
A man claiming to be a “Boko Haram’s spiritual teacher” has told the BBC World Service radio that the hundreds of girls abducted in Chibok on April 15 are “feeding very well” and in “good state of health.” The man, who had his voice disguised in the interview, also said […]
Kairo Introduces Quran Stories
In its efforts to boost the understanding of Muslims, the Islamic department of Kairo Radio decided to launch a new programme geared towards achieving that goal. “Stories of the Quran is a response to our listeners’ demands,” the programme Anchor and Editor of Kairo News/Radio Islamic Affairs said. “It’s not […]
A Brilliant Star Has Fallen From Gambian Galaxy
He is indefatigable push for the voice of the voiceless, the implementation of sustainable bilateral relationship within the Senegambian sub-region and the return to democracy in The Gambia, from Fulladou to Mansajang and from Banjul to Dakar perhaps made him the glue that closely held together all those around him […]
Gambian Exiled Politician Buba Baldeh Has Fallen
‘The Lion of Fulladou and Mansajang Kunda has fallen, a fluent speaker of many languages and a man who has injected his very best in his political beliefs.’ News of the demise of the late Bubacarr Michael Baldeh fondly called Buba Baldeh hit Kairo News with shock and disbelief. The […]
Article 19’s Jagne Talks On Chief Manneh’s Disappearance
Eight years have passed since Chief Ebrima Manneh [reporter with the Daily Observer newspaper in the Gambia] was picked UP by plainclothes officers of the feared National Intelligence Agency (NIA). Journalist Abdoulie John caught up with the West Africa Director of Article XI. In this interview, Fatou Jagne-Senghore seized the […]
Autopsying A Fragmented Idea And Engineering The struggle
By Mathew K Jallow A far less talked about split; one of, perhaps, even much greater consequence, is the earlier divide between GCC and the concept that slowly and laboriously grew out of Raleigh; now CORDEG. To begin, Raleigh was contemporaneously hyped up in radio and print broadcast as a […]
Momodou Sabally Joins The Queue
The one time darling of Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh has awfully fallen from grace. Apart from being demoted from the position of Secretary General and Minister of Presidential Affairs, Momodou Sabally was also stripped off as the Secretary General of the ruling APRC of President Jammeh. And now to nail […]
Our Own Gambian Struggle
By A Concerned Gambian The Diaspora Gambians should perhaps now focus, we believe, on extensive and wider consultations geared towards devising ways and means of addressing and circumventing the current impasse in our legitimate and rightful struggle (irrespective of differences in political ideology, allegiance and approach). A meeting of minds […]
Senegal Leader Sacks Premier
Senegalese President Macky Sall has reportedly sacked the country’s Prime Minister. Aminata Touré’s Friday sacking came on the heels of her failure to win a mayoral seat in Dakar during Senegal’s just concluded local government elections. Touré, the second woman Prime Minister in Senegal’s history, was appointed to the post […]
Why Dr. Saine Should Pack Up
By Burama Sanneh, Seattle, Washington State Let the Chair or Public Relations Officer of the Committee for the Restoration of Democracy in the Gambia (CORDEG) explain why those who attended the 2013 Raleigh Conference for Democracy and Good Governance and even contributed financially were left out while those who did not attend […]
Sabally Sits On Knife Edge
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh thinks the time is ripe for him to elbow out his once most loyal Secretary General and Minister of Presidential Affairs. This comes months after Mr. Jammeh succeeded in using Momodou Sabally as a weapon to tear down everyone, including his (Sabally’s) own ethnic Mandinka people, […]