By Sanna Camara, in Dakar Senegalese authorities have made a number of arrests as part of a sweeping offensive against people suspected to have links with the extremist Boko Haram sect, which has for years wreaked havoc in Nigeria and its northern neighbours. A number of suspects were picked up […]
Author: Musa Saidykhan
Terrorism Has No Religion or Race: Need For Soul-searching
By Dr Alhagi Manta Drammeh Terrorism is colourless with no religion or ethnicity. Those who perpetuate terrorism are a bunch of criminals and bandits who should be condemned for their abominable and irreligious acts in the strongest unequivocal terms. I write this reflection while the horrible acts in Paris yesterday […]
Paris Terror Attacks Are “Acts Of War”
Speaking in a televised address to the nation on Saturday, French President François Hollande accused the Islamic State (IS) group of conducting a series of attacks in and around Paris late Friday that left at least 127 people dead. Speaking from the Elysée presidential palace the morning after France saw […]
No “New Page” To Open; Jammeh Must Go!
By Ousainou Mbenga You had 21 pages in 21 years to write onto and leave an admirable legacy in the history of the Gambia but you chose to write on those pages with our BLOOD. You have no more pages left to open; not in the Gambia. After 21 years […]
Nullifying The ‘Constitutional’ Demarcations
Nullifying the ‘constitutional’ demarcations: executive directives and the operational conduct of judicial officers. From whatever perspective, it is perverse, absolutely wrong on all fronts, and an assault on the principle of judicial independence as that doctrine is ordinarily understood in any country whose public life is grounded in democratic institutionalism […]
Africa ‘Losing €60 Billions A Year In Tax Evasion’
Senegalese President Macky Sall called Thursday for multinationals to pay their fair share of taxes following a summit with EU leaders aimed at curbing the poverty fuelling mass migration to Europe. Sall also said Africans should receive a a fair price for their natural resources when he addressed a press […]
‘Avoid Misuse Of Social Media’
An erudite Muslim cleric has warned against misuse of the social media. Imam Momodou Ceesay of Detroit Islamic Center would not understand why some people are in the habbit of using the social media as a vehicle to expose their private organ. “It has come to my knowledge that some […]
“Don’t Leave The Poor With Nothing”
Nigeria’s First Lady has urged the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) party to honour its campaign promise of taking care of the country’s 25 million vulnerable poor people. Aisha Buhari said the party must not renege on its promise to allocate N 5,000 to the poor every month. In a […]
Separating The Wheat From The Chaff
By Gambian Outsider! Today is veterans’ day in the United States. I have the day off from work. And no, I am not a veteran. This is a consolidated article. I was thinking about writing an article to respond to Mr. Babu Soli’s commentary on Mr. Ousainou Mbenga’s article entitled […]
11/11: Another Dark Day Arrives
It’s exactly 21 years today when more than a dozen soldiers accused of a coup plot were summarily executed by The Gambia’s military junta. The ‘military with a difference’ sadly lacked the balls to tell Gambians the list of coup suspects. Only the alleged leader Lt. Basiru Barrow was named. […]
Why Am I In This Struggle?
By Ousman Jarra History has taught us that society does not change when people sit down and do nothing but it only does when they demand their rights to be free. My reasons are numerous, from the murder of the students in April 2000, enforced disappearances, tortures, illegal detentions, repressive […]
‘Islam Goes Beyond Five Pillars’
Imam Ceesay Leads Tree Planting Exercise The Chief Imam of Detroit Islamic Center says Muslims should understand that religion goes beyond the five pilars – Belief in Allah and His Prophet, Pray, Offer Zakat, fast Ramadan and perform pilgrimage to Mecca. Imam Momodou Ceesay says the protection of an environment […]