The leader of opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) had debunked online media reports that he had stepped aside as the party leader. Lawyer Ousainou Darboe remains the Secretary General of the UDP. Mr. Darboe was responding to an article published on What’s on Gambia website [www.whatsongambia.com] that the main opposition […]
Author: Kairo News
Gambia 2016 Elections: A Do Or Die?
December 2016? An election? A Revolution? A Do or Die? A new president is a must? There is a religious adage that says: When GOD decides to improve a situation; He makes it look like hopeless. We pray that to happen in the Gambia in 2016. Will December 2016 be […]
Obama Rebuts Anti-Muslim Rhetoric In First U.S. Mosque Visit
President Barack Obama, in his first visit to a mosque in the United States, said Wednesday he was seeking to rebut “inexcusable political rhetoric against Muslim-Americans” from Republican presidential candidates. Attempting to recast what he said was a warped image of Islam while encouraging members of the faith to speak […]
The Contending Positions For Opposition Unity
It Is Another Election Year And The Wailing By Schist Confucianist Are At It Again While the country’s opposition political parties were said to be locked in closed door negotiations to chart out a way forward after four years of an ineffective boycott campaign, Gambia’s one-man ruler Yahya Jammeh slapped […]
Jammeh’s Amnesty Will Be On Table
Most African leaders have trampled on the rights of their citizens so much that they are scared of leaving power. President Yahya Jammeh is no exception. But one of his main opponents said “Jammeh’s amnesty will be discussed if he does not pose his candidature for the December 2016 presidential […]
Jammeh On A Rift Mission In Ethiopia
President Yahya Jammeh has traveled to Ethiopia to frustrate the African Union’s plans to deploy peacekeeping mission in Burundi, a country that risks sliding into another genocide. Burundi and its neighbour Rwanda both went through genocide resulting to mass termination of Tutsis. President Jammeh is so far the only African […]
EU Security Grills Ben; Is He Burying Jammeh’s Hot Evidence
In their bid to extract chaff from the wind, foreign security investigators had reportedly grilled Benedict Jammeh for hours about the fate of cocaine impounded by The Gambia government. The investigators have been acting on a tip off and surveillance signals that the said drugs, worth a billion dollars, were […]
Institution Building and Organisational Development In Gambia
By Sarjo Bayang Part 2: Grouping, Crowding, and Lack of Teaming in Gambia We explored the scope of institution building and organisational development for Gambia starting with Office of the President on our earlier issue in these series. Facts at hand confirmed that current occupier of Gambian presidency prefers to […]
Why Ben Jammeh Runs For His Life
Details of why the former Director General of National Drugs Enforcement Agency ran for his life are emerging, although in bits and pieces. Benedict Jammeh fled into exile in May 2013 after he had fallen apart with President Yahya Jammeh. He has since been living a quiet life in Senegal. […]
Football Is Our Problem
The Lions of Gambia fight over Football but not on human rights. They quarrel and end friendship on Arsenal and Manchester United rivalry, some between Madrid and Barcelona… Gambian youths see the Senegalese youths active and progressive in national affairs when called upon. Just bring football on, you will see […]
Darboe Damns Jammeh Over School Girl Beauty Contest
The Gambia’s veteran human rights lawyer and leader of the opposition United Democratic Party met youths at the American corner for a wide ranging interview. Lawyer Ousainou Darboe used the interview to attack President Yahya Jammeh for using school girls in beauty pageantry. He called on him to halt […]
Online Media: Causes For Concern
By Bax “…operating from the Western Hemisphere, Gambian online media/radios need to learn from their counterparts in the Western media, and see how agenda driven journalism can facilitate change, through mass media.” Hidden agenda and misplaced priorities are what constitute the greatest obstacles to diaspora effectiveness in the struggle, and […]