After intense lobbying involving Kombo elders – religious and village heads – the people of Kartong have lifted a ban on five villagers. The reversal of ban also came in the wake of a meeting at the community center, the exact venue where the ban had been announced. At an […]
Author: Kairo News
The End Of Yet Another Dalasi Rate Blues
The End of yet Another Dalasi Rate Blues The association of licensed foreign exchange dealers in The Gambia are to meet on Saturday 23rd January 2016 in the aftermath of government’s, or better say, Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh’s final bow down, not to mounting international pressures, but to the stubborn logic […]
Minister Sheriff Bojang Please Resign!
President Jammeh on Wednesday 13th January let it be officially made known that he was rescinding his autocratic and totalitarian directive that no woman working in the public sector was to be allowed to have any part of her hair uncovered during working hours. The official newscaster on the one […]
Persecution Of Christians: Sheriff Bojang Cries Foul
The Gambia’s Information Minister Sheriff Bojang has got an axe to grind with the media for its reporting of President Yahya Jammeh’s Islamic State declaration. “Instead of finding out the truth, some of these reporters and editors jump to conclusions making noise everywhere that “Christians are being defamed, persecuted and […]
Gambia: Why Sharia Is Not An Aption
By Baba G. Jallow Back in 2013 when he reduced the work week from five to four days, I wrote a piece in which I argued that contrary to fears in some quarters, imposing Sharia law was not an option for Mr. Jammeh. In the light of recent developments in […]
Despite Jammeh’s Bragging, Gambia’s HDI Ranks Low
Despite President Yahya Jammeh’s rhetoric to turn The Gambia into a donor country remains a mystery as evidenced by the United Nations Human Development Index 2015. With a score of 0.441, The Gambia ranks 175 out of 188 countries. The United Nations Development Program Resident Coordinator, Ms. Ade Mamonyane Lekoretje, […]
Supplementary Voter Registration Starts Today
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) will today 14 January 2016 commence a supplementary voter registration, according to IEC chairman Alhaji Mustapha Carayol. The exercise is part of preparations for the electioneering process in The Gambia in line with the electoral calendar covering 2016 through 2018. The commission has prepared voter […]
Yaya Jammeh’s 2016 Awful Resolution
By Unbiased Prince Yaya Jammeh’s 2016 lamentable yet awful resolution which have already set sail while meaning appalling phenomenon on my Gambian community (as ‘Foni Residents in the Gambia are Fleeing right now from Yaya Jammeh’s Witchcraft of Terrorism’) have meant a man-made calamity be unfolding without any needed terrains […]
IS Fighter Publicly Executes His Mother
An Islamic State militant last week publicly executed his mother in Syria’s city of Raqqa. Lena al-Qasem, 45, was executed for asking Ali Saqr to leave the group, activist groups said. The terrorist group has occupied large swathe of land in Syria and Iraq. The Islamic State does not entertain […]
Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba ‘Kadimou Rasul’
“A cleric who seeks the favours and reward of a King/Ruler is like a fly that feeds on excrements” Serign Amadou Bamba Kairo Radio today starts a two week series on ‘Mouridiyaa’, a study of the followers of Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba. In that the anchor Mohammed Lamin Sillah’s usual Letter from […]
Neocolonialism And The Lasting Impact On The African/Gambian Problem
A topic for discussion Neocolonialism and dialectical materialism is blamed for the continued prevalence of autocrats and tyrants in Africa even after more than half a century of independence. The African elite is excused for the fundamental fault lines in not being able to uplift the masses from abject poverty, […]
The President Of New Africa – Part 1 of 4
Sulayman Saul Saidykhan I was never really into the night club thing. But in my early years in college here in the Washington DC metro area where I still live, I would occasionally go along with friends to an African club called Kilimanjaro in the 18th Street/Adams Morgan neighborhood of […]