The Secretary General of the People’s Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism has asked about the body of the slain opposition activist Ebrima Solo Sandeng. In a solidarity message on the conviction of the United Democratic Party leadership and supporters published below, Halifa Sallah asked: “Where is his body? Every body […]
Author: Musa Saidykhan
EU Lawmakers Take On Jammeh
European lawmakers want their Union to adopt a tougher stance against Gambian President Yahya Jammeh. They also want the bloc to provide support to the Gambia’s opposition parties and civil society organisations as well as begin the process of Article 96 consultation with the Gambia’s tyrannical government. At a recent […]
Gambian Security Witch-hunts Prominent GDC Member
By Abdoulie John The Gambia government has launched a ‘systematic campaign of harassment’ targeting former parliamentarian Tina Faal who has turned her back to the ruling Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) and joined newly formed Gambia Democratic Congress (GDC) party. She has been released from police custody, having been slapped with […]
The Lawyer Ousainou Darboe You Do Not Know
By Sheriff Kora Any Gambian mindful of the political developments in the country is aware of how a few half-baked, unsophisticated politicians with less regard for good governance and the rights of man have systematically threatened the idea of freedom once cherished and familiar to us all. Despite the regime […]
Gambians in UK Damn Lawyer Darboe’s Conviction
By Baba Jobe It was Friday afternoon when I emerged from the Charing Cross tube station. I had just disembarked from a Northern Line sparsely filled train heading to Edgeware. I had travelled from the northwest of England to attend a protest organised by Gambian human rights activists to highlight […]
Pressure Mounts On Gambia As ‘Pre-electoral Climate Darkens’
By Abdoulie John Pressure is mounting on the Gambia governmemt to free jailed opposition leader and dozens of his supporters. “ARTICLE 19 is gravely concerned by the ongoing attacks on civic space, the imprisonment of opposition leader, Ousainou Darboe, two of his family members, and 25 opposition party supporters, and by allegations of torture […]
Gambians Set For Anti-Jammeh Protest
Gambians and friends of the Gambia have been invited to yet another anti-Jammeh protest in the German city of Bremen. The peaceful protest, which aims to bring President Yahya Jammeh’s gross human rights violations and president crackdown on his political opponents, kicks off on August 13 at 14:00 hrs. Organisers […]
Why Am I Speaking Now
By Bunja Darboe I am not a politician and I am not a tribalist. Though I have some little knowledge about politics but I have always distanced my myself from political wrangling. Thomas Sankara once said: “A soldier without any political knowledge is a virtuous criminal”. So I have some […]
Top European Academic Journal Publishes Sankanu’s Article On African Cinema
As part of his passion for the advancement of scholarship on African cinema, prominent Gambian filmmaker and scholar, Prince Bubacarr Aminata Sankanu, wrote a groundbreaking academic article titled “Rediscovering Frantz Fanon at Scotland’s Africa in Motion film Festival” for the Spring 2016 edition of NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies […]
No to Mokati Mansa
By Baba Galleh Jallow Actualizing the family nation requires that we reassess the nature of political relationships in our country with a view to relocating political power from the state to the people where it rightfully belongs. And since our present government sees itself as a nation builder perched on […]
How NIA Jubilates Darboe’s Conviction
The Gambia’s spy agency jubilated the conviction and sentencing of a prominent opposition leader with a football match at the beach. Over the years, Gambian security agents, particularly the National Intelligence Agents, have conspired to destroy the main opposition United Democratic Party at all costs. These agents have beaten, murdered, […]
Mixed Reactions At NBA Over The Jailling of Gambia Opposition Leader
As Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) members are bracing up for their 56th Annual General Conference to be held from 19-26 August 2016, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, two judgements passed in Gambian courts by two Nigerian judges are expected to overshadow an event dubbed as the largest gathering of legall practitioners on African […]