IN SOLIDARITY WITH SUPREME ISLAM COUNCIL (SIC) – RE SIC’S OBJECTION TO PURA’S GRANTING OF TV LICENCE TO THE AHMADDIYYA (QADIANI) JAMAAT I stand in solidarity with the SIC on its open objection to the issuance of TV license to the Ahmadiyya jamaat. I have written and reproduced in the […]
Author: Kairo News
The Gambia Is Back!
Gambian President Adama Barrow has advised senior government officials “to love their country, work for it, take care of it as if it’s their own house…build it nice, keep it safe; keep it comfortable; and keep it clean!” President Barrow is convinced that “we will soon have a country everyone […]
The president who made people take his bogus HIV cure
Image copyrightEPA The Gambia’s former leader, Yahya Jammeh, who left the country a year ago after two decades in power, has been accused of many crimes. But one of the strangest was forcing thousands of people with HIV to undergo treatment with a concoction of herbs he had invented himself. […]
Peters’ Death Brings Back Fears
“My dad is made of tougher stuff than that. He will not quit. That is not the man who sired me. He is very determined to see a free and democratic Gambia where we can all contribute, irrespective of our political affiliation and not get jailed, tortured or killed for […]
Why Jammmeh’s Allies Return Home
Three of former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh’s trusted guards and aide who accompanied him to Equatorial Guinea returned home to face whatever awaits them rather than enduring endless hardship in another man’s land. Unlike other fugitives who sneak their way into the country, State Guard Commander Brigadier General Ansumana Tamba, […]
Let’s Build Bridges, Not Walls
The Agency for the Promotion of Global Peace and Religious Tolerance wishes to congratulate and extend gratitude to all Gambians for keeping the peace during the past year which saw the installation of a new government and return to normal life in the Gambia. The Agency wants all Gambians to […]
British, Brazilian Artists Head To Kartong Cultural Festival
A group of British and Brazilian artists and musicians is heading to Kartong on a cultural exchange – and promises to bring with them the spirit of carnival. The team of thirty nine will join the organising committee of the Kartong Festival, an arts and cultural event that has run […]
Why Some African Americans Are Moving To Africa
Accra, Ghana – They have come from the big cities of San Francisco, Chicago, and New York. Thousands of them. And many refuse to return. A new wave of African Americans is escaping the incessant racism and prejudice in the United States. From Senegal and Ghana to The Gambia, communities […]
Barrow at One: The Opportunities
By Saul Saidykhan Where there are big challenges, there are great opportunities. As I alluded to in Part One, the cardinal objective of Barrow’s leadership should be to lay a solid foundation that successive governments could follow to deepen the tenets and pillars of democracy at all levels of government […]
Jammeh Flatly Rejected My Advice
Former president John Dramani Mahama has disclosed that he was included in the ECOWAS team mediation team to settle the Gambia’s election 2017 dispute because he conceded defeat in Ghana’s 2016 election to serve as an example to the former leader Yahya Jammeh. Mr Mahama disclosed that the former leader […]
IGP Suspends All Political Permits
The Gambia’s Inspector General supreintendent Landing Kinteh has suspended all political permits until further notice. The decision, contained in a letter sent to all political parties published below, was exacerbated by violence resulting from the country tour of the former ruling Alliance for Patriotic Re-orientation and Construction party of Yahya […]
APRC Brews Brawls Again
More than a year after losing elections the Alliance for Patriotic Re-orientation and Construction of former President Yahya Jammeh members see relevance in brewing political violence. The party has left its footprints of violence in the Kombos, Fonis and recently in Upper River Region. Just two days back, the APRC […]