By Abdoulie John The leader of Yahya Jammeh’s defeated Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction leader (APRC) remains defiant about holding the party’s planned 50,000-man political rally later in October. “The issue of the political rally was not even discussed,” Fabakary Tombong Jatta told reporters shortly after the police questioned […]
Author: Musa Saidykhan
Inquiry Commission: Civil Servants Found Culpable Must Face Wrath
Civil servants who are implicated in the report of the Janneh Commission of Inquiry should be dismissed and sent to prison for their role in condoning, collaborating or conniving with former President Yahya Jammeh to commit economic crimes. These people are The Gambia’s worst ever citizens. When Jammeh was in […]
National Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Great Conversation in the Gambia
By: Dr Alhagi Manta Drammeh (Fellow Higher Education Acdemy UK FHA, Fellow Royal Society of Arts RSA UK) Professor of Islamic Thought and Contemporary Society You call it conversation, you call it dialogue, you call it reconciliation, you call it social harmonisation or you call it healing, the Gambia is […]
What Barrow Tells Diaspora Gambians
By Abdoulie John Gambian leader winds up his maiden presidential visit to the United States where he attended the General Assembly of the United Nations. President Adama Barrow wrapped up his flurry of activities with a town hall meeting with Diaspora Gambians in New York on Saturday before heading home […]
Ombudsman Committed To Human Rights Protection
The Gambia’s Public Protector has reiterated her commitment to protect human rights in a country that is now moving towards a new direction. The end of 22-year Jammeh dictatorship has opened a new era for Gambians who have long cried to regain democracy and freedom. “The Ombudsman enhances the lofty […]
‘Rohingyas Deserve Our Protection’
Despite being thousands of miles away, the Director of the Gambia-based Agency for the Promotion of Global Peace and Religious Tolerance (AGPGRT) believes the world must not sit back and watch Myanmar’s Rohingya risk extinction in the only country they call home. Sheikh Sheriff Mameena Hydara’s message – a response […]
Why Barrow Wears Only White
I want to know why the Gambia’s new interim leader [President Adama Barrow] chooses to wear white clothes (outfit). Is it meant to copy his predecessor Yahya Jammeh? Or does a President in the Gambia have to wear only white outfit while in office? I definitely need an answer! My […]
REMEMBERING MARCUS GARVEY
By Sainey Faye ……Do you remember old Marcus Garvey? He taught us that:- “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” —Marcus Mosiah Garvey “The Black Skin is not a badge of shame,but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.” […]
Gambia Borrows Leaf From Liberia
By Abdoulie John The survival of any country that emerges from conflict or war depends on support of countries with wealth of knowledge and experience. Since dislodging former President Yahya Jammeh from power, Gambians have been amassing support from governments and international organisations. One country that the Gambia wants to […]
My Reservations About TRRC
The newly constituted Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission (TRRC) will not provide the deterrent measures that is required to prevent jammeh era atrocities from occuring again in our country. Jammeh and his henchmen unleashed havoc on Gambian people. It is not a case that Gambians waged war on one another. […]
Zuma Survives Vote Of No Confidence
South African President Jacob Zuma has just survived another motion of no confidence in his presidency. Tuesday’s secret parliamentary ballot, championed by opposition Democractic Alliance, was the first to be held in the country’s post-apartheid era. After a two-hour debate and lengthy voting process, 198 Members of Parliament voted for […]
Gambia Will Not Extradite Sonko
The Gambia government is not reaching out to the Swiss authorities to extradite Ousman Sonko, the Minister of Justice has said over the weekend. Swiss papers on Thursday reported a possible extradition of former Interior minister Ousman Sonko, based on talks that the Gambia and Swiss authorities are engaged in. […]