Kate Murphy – Producer It’s a presidential portrait that’s sure to go down in history. The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia publicly released a mug shot of former president Donald Trump, inmate no. P01135809, after he was booked at the facility Thursday evening on 13 felony counts stemming from his alleged […]
Author: Musa Saidykhan
GAF Rebuts Unguarded, Ill-informed Remarks of Lt. Col Sarr
It should be emphasised that GAF has an enviable performance track record in Peace Keeping Operations either under the auspices of ECOWAS, AU or the UN. On the basis of this, our soldiers had been tasked with complex and often sensitive missions in Liberia and Guinea Bissau in the 90s […]
AFRO-MUSIC SCENE ON FIRE
AS AFRICAN & DIASPORA ARTISTS GO HEAD-TO-HEAD AT TRACE AWARDSGLOBAL APPEAL OF AFRO-CENTRIC MUSIC IN THE SPOTLIGHT AS NOMINATIONS & VOTING GO LIVE TODAY Press Release Johannesburg, South Africa – Global music powerhouse and Afro-music tastemaker Trace has revealed the nominees for the first ever Trace Awards in Africa, a […]
Malian Junta Named Keita Special Advisor
Legendary Malian Singer Salif Keita/blackpast.org image The leader of Mali’s military junta has appointed the country’s legendary Afropop singer as a special advisor. Salif Keita, 73, had earlier resigned from the junta’s transitional parliamentary council. The appointment of the man popularly referred to as “the Golden Voice of Africa” was […]
Indian Pharmaceuticals on Trial for Allegedly Killing Over 300 Children in Gambia and Beyond
Landmark Trial Set to Open in coming October: Indian Pharmaceutical Company Faces Legal Action Over Tragic Deaths of 300 Children in Gambia, Indonesia, and Uzbekistan Due to Contaminated Medicines Gambia is gearing up for a landmark trial set to open in October following the devastating deaths of 300 children across […]
‘Gambia’s Joking Relations Is A Pride’
It was a pleasure for me to grace the UK Jarra Association football tournament and luncheon sale on Saturday August 12th in Birmingham City. The football competition was staged between regions with joking relationships: Jarra and Niumi, Badibou and Sarahulehs. Although some regions couldn’t field a team the event went […]
ECOWAS Parliament Deadlock On Niger Miliary Action
Parliamentarians of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Saturday deadlocked over the action that needed to be taken to address the Niger coup. Some parliamentarians of ECOWAS were in favour of the regional bloc taking military action against the Niger junta. Other members were against any form […]
Niger: AU Chairperson Supports ECOWAS Military Intervention
The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat, expresses his strong support for the decisions adopted by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on anti-constitutional change in Niger. The Chairperson expresses his deep concern at the reported poor co nditions of detention of President Mohamed […]
NATO Chases African Presidents In Libya
President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has made a startling revelation of how the NATO chased the 6-man delegation out of Libya. The delegation, which included the former South African President Jacob Zuma was not allowed to land in Libya, let alone broker peace between President Muammar Gaddafi and his opponents. […]
International Criminal Accountability for Yahya Jammeh’s Administration: The Gambia-ECOWAS Court
by Owiso Owiso and Sharon Nakandha January 2023 marked six years since former President of The Gambia Yahya Jammeh fled the country for Equatorial Guinea following an unexpected electoral defeat to the opposition coalition led by Adama Barrow. This political transition forced The Gambia to embark on an unprecedented transitional […]
Africa! Wake up or you would be woken up Rudely. ECOWAS mean what you say!
General Abdourahmane Tiani, REUTERS/Balima Boureima//File Photo By Manding Darboe This is abysmally complicated and very consequential for Africa. It can mean that now a days, any African leader who finds himself or herself in trouble in any African country can procure the services of a foreign mercenary group to keep […]
A True Pan-African Has Fallen
“Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un – From Allah we come and to Him is our return.” We have lost a great friend of The Gambia, a huge personality and dedicated writer and commentator on Gambian political, social and legal affairs. The brilliant Pan-Africanist and entertaining journalist and educator, Comrade […]