“Students and civil servants walking on foot to Banjul as traffic jam is causing hours of delay. People getting out of cars and walking since that is more faster. Police asking for ID cards, with Police Intervention Unit officers mounting more checkpoints,” said a passenger at Denton Bridge, few miles […]

What the Senegalese Media Says About Recent Events in Gambia Events in the Gambia, meaning the bloody repression of the opposition UDP, the alleged cold-bloody murder of its youth leader Mr. Solo Sandeng and the arrest, detention and arraigning of its leader Lawyer Ousainou Darboe , the whole party executive […]

Of Mad Logic and Equation of Power – A Satirical Approach to Dictator Jammeh’s rule in Gambia. While we mourn the recent barbaric killings of our heroes like Solo Sandeng,we should not be surprised at the bloodthirsty nature of the tyrant we have as our head of state in Gambia. […]

By now, it is clear that Dictator Yahya Yahya Jammeh knows he is a thorn in everyone’s flesh. He is no longer a Gambian menace but a regional one. A single soul who goes around biting whoever he crosses path with as if he is a mad dog. Even the […]

We vividly recall how Samuel Doe drove Liberia into civil war with his corrupt economic actions and, worse, the indiscriminate killings by his death squads marauding everywhere, exterminating innocent men, women and children. Even after the Lutheran Church massacre on July 29, 1990, when over 600 people seeking refuge there were […]

A statement issued by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission on The Gambia government’s use of excessive force against armless, peaceful protesters depicts the regional grouping knows what is yet to be known to many Gambians. This is evidenced by the fact that the Commission is extending […]

Shortly before taking to the streets, the Secretary General of United Democratic Party Lawyer Ousainou Darboe prepared the mentality of family members (wives and children). The somber address could only be compared to the statement of a soldier on a war mission. “I’m ready to go to the streets to […]

Arrest, Detention and Feared Disappearance of Imam Alhaji Ousman Sawaneh Let Us All Help Free Alhaji ousman Sawaneh.!!!! Imam Alhaji Ousman Sawaneh was arrested by agents of the National Intelligence Agency NIA)  on December 8th, 2015. State refused to release him since the High Court ordered his release on March […]

    On Thursday 31st March 2016, Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh, finally gathered enough courage to be able to face the National Assembly and, through GRTS television, the nation for his annual State Opening of the new legislative year, 2016.  An early sign of his nervousness his mistaken calling of […]

   By Guest Editor Part One Of Three  The History of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP): How the Party Came to Existence, is indeed an interesting contribution in the attempt to shed light on our recent past. Coming as it does at a time when our country and its people have […]

The Gambia-Senegal border closure has got into the skin of President Yahya Jammeh to the extent that his government is turning to the court of the regional economic grouping for a solution. Shame on the Jammeh government for seeking redress at a court it has deliberately refused to honour its […]