PROGRAM FOR ACCELERATED GROWTH AND EMPLOYMENT(PAGE) , A RESOUNDING FAILURE! The Government of The Gambia has long been claiming it is committed to reducing poverty and improving the well-being of its population. Thus the regime’s claim of being committed to its long-term strategy of Vision2020, that it had been trumpeting […]
Author: Kairo News
Row Over Scholarship For Virgins!
The women of South Africa have had enough of education discrimination in the name of Virginity Test. They took to the streets to register their anger over KwaZulu-Natal province major’s scholarship to young women for remaining virgins. This, according to the mayor’s office, will encourage others to be “pure and […]
Gambia’s Identity Crisis And Disintegration Of Republicanism
By Max Since 1994 when the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council (AFPRC) toppled democratically elected government and installed themselves as a new regime , The Gambia has been undergoing an identity crisis and disintegration of republicanism. A long term trend of this will directly led to National disintegration. To begin with, […]
HOW TO FIGHT AND WEAKEN A DICTATOR
Always remember that dictators depend on other men to do the job of subjugating their people for them. The dictator will never personally descend on the ground to fight, arrest, torture and imprison a person or several people, a dictator will never engage in a one on one fist fight […]
Suspicion And Lack Of Trust Derail Unity
By Janko Camara Dear Bax Your views insinuate lack of trust among the opposition parties Weak leadership and thus candidate prone to manipulation by other forces within the party. Now let us look at these and your other points in detail. If your insinuation on lack of trust is true, […]
The Devil Is Not In Fine Discussions And Arguments
The devil is in the voting card and the electorate! All discussions and arguments in the diaspora are centered around Ousainou Darboe this, Halifa Sallah that, OJ Jallow this, Hamat Bah this, Yaya Jammeh that. All these political leaders have only one card to vote for themselves in an election […]
‘LET’S GO TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY’
How the 30th December coup attempt was planned and executed What happened when 11 exiles armed themselves for a violent night in the Gambia In the dark hours of the morning on December 30, 2014, eight men gathered in a graveyard a mile down the road from the official residence of […]
UDP’s People Engagement Is Generating Mass Crowds
The United Democratic Party has been travelling and holding mass rallies all over the greater Banjul area in recent months. The last venue to stage a mass rally was New Jeswang. The area’s rally, held there on February 21st, is believed to have been the biggest, atteacting more people than […]
Watoo Forti (Time Is Up)
Please allow me the space to share these few words with the Gambian people and the world at large. It is overdue for the Alliance of People Recognised as Criminals (APRC) government to be dumped in mid sea to perish. The people of The Gambia had suffered for so long […]
Devil’s Advocate
(In Defence of My Uncle Sheriff Bojang!) By Dida Jallow-Halake Editor, I thank you for pointing out the drama surrounding my uncle, the Honourable Minister, in the pages of Kaironews and indeed as it turns out in the pages of the Daily Observer too. At the outset, the title of […]
NIA Detains Dismissed Agent
By Yaya Dampha Another Gambian has been detained beyond 72–hour without being charged, a flagrant violation of the constitution. Madikey Faal, a former officer of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), was arrested by NIA agents on February 16, 2016. Mr. Fall’s arrest and subsequent detention occurred after he had reported to […]
Gambian Diaspora: Let’s Boot Out The Dictator
Committed Gambians who believe in change through democratic elections should consider coming home in December 2016. It is a fact that over the years, the diaspora Gambians have done a tremendous job in exposing dictatorship in the Gambia. It is also a fact that without the financial remittances of the […]