Author: Kairo News

Politics

Don’t Let Fake News Fake You Out!

By Alagie Yorro Jallow Fake news is so real and so pervasive that it already rings disturbingly familiar. It’s the production and dissemination of false information meant to influence the direction of our Gambian life by deluding anyone unsuspecting enough to swallow it. To our thinking, it’s a matter of […]

Society

Senegalese Transport Union Threatens Boycott If Jammeh Remains Adamant

Senegalese transport union leaders have added their voice on the Gambia’s political crisis orchestrated by the outgoing President Yahya Jammeh, threatening to boycott trans-Gambia highway if the defeated leader remains adamant. In an unprecedented show of courage and defiance, Gambian civil society organizations and institutions have been speaking up on […]

Politics

Even Ouza Speaks Up; What About The Others?

Even the Senegalese pop-singer friend of the out-going Gambian dictator has appealed to the stray Gambian autocrat to re-think his decision not to concede defeat in the 1st December presidential election. Ouza Diallo called Jammeh’s behaviour “regrettable”. The Senegalese pop star who had spent years in the paradise-like Gambia of the […]

Society

Gambia’s Political Crisis Concern Doctors

Press Release The Gambia Medical and Dental Association (MDAG), on the Political Situation in The Gambia. The Gambia Medical and Dental Association of The Gambia (MDAG), is a professional body which brings together all medical practitioners in The Gambia with one of its objective being: “To provide professional and technical […]

Politics

More Condemnations Pour On Jammeh

STATEMENT BY THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA ON THE ANNULMENT OF RESULTS OF THE GAMBIA’S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION BY THE OUT-GOING PRESIDENT ON 9 DECEMBER 2016 On 1 December 2016, Gambians went to the polls and voted in the country’s Presidential Election. On 2 December 2016, the […]

Society

Yaya Jammeh Bish!

Yaya Jammeh Bish! Saul Saidykhan I’ve called him a half- baboon severally in the past   to the disapproval of a friend of mine. But as I stated, nothing about Yaya Jammeh’s behavior is re-assuring to anyone that he is a member of the civilized human race. Today, he is the […]

Society

President Jammeh Must Go!!!

President Jammeh must go!!! By Alagie Yorro Jallow Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer space. A nation whose citizens lack national consciousness and patriotism is a nation that has lost its soul. Such […]