Enough is indeed Enough When people are determined and ready they can dislodge tyrants from power. Yes, unbearable social conditions call for radical reactions from those affected particularly if the powers that be wouldn’t budge. It happens in Ghana, Burkina Faso and even in our neighboring Senegal. In the Gambia […]
Editorial
The Die Is Cast; What Next?
The conviction and subsequent sentencing of the opposition United Democratic Party leadership, supporters and opposition activists has again reminded us about the Jammeh regime’s callousness, cruelty and disrespect for human rights and the rule of law. The regime’s heartlessness have over and over gone over the roof. It has simply […]
Of Mamma Kandeh’s Sharp Critics
Sometimes you wonder why pettiness has eaten into the brains of some Gambians to the extent that they thread on Yahya Jammeh’s disgusting path. His tribal political path is a no-go area that has no place in our politics. Despite the diverse nature of our political parties, you still hear […]
True Leadership Aisha Teaches Us
There was nothing soul-soothing than seeing a leader serving people, especially the underprivileged ones – the people who are mostly forgotten. Watching Nigerian First Lady Aisha Buhari standing serving guests, which include orphans and poor, at an Eid dinner she had organised raises my enthusiasm level that change in Africa […]
Exposing Jammeh’s Dirty Politics
It is obvious that the closer we get to December 1st general elections the more Yahya Jammeh will double up his dirty politics that hinges on divide and conquer. Like a drowning man, Jammeh will keep fighting — in darkness and daylight — to maintain the mantle he had first […]
Jammeh Feeds Gambians With Donkeys
Kairo News editors have been bombarded with reactions shortly after the publication of a story in which state security agents cautioned relatives and close friends to avoid eating President Yahya Jammeh’s voodoo-infested beef that awaits unsuspecting shoppers at the market. The talking agents have evidence that the voodoo-obsessed leader mixes […]
How Sir Jeng Spins Solo’s Murder Story
Saihou Omar Jeng, alias Sir Jeng, is the current Director of Operations of the National Intelligence Agency. He is a Kaur native who supervised the brutal torture of peaceful opposition protesters, resulting to the murder of Ebrima Solo Sandeng on April 15th. Even vulnerable married women were not spared the […]
What Has Jammeh’s Father Done For Gambia?
Yahya Jammeh is like Satan [Iblis] who does not tell the truth but capable of destabilising the innocent mind. You hear some loose canon religious clerics often preach against using vulgar language against a leader who is ordained by Allah, the Almighty. Do these religious clerics truly believe in Allah […]
Tribalism: Constitutional Constipation
My Marxist/Leninist/Maoist Comrades cum Friends and I had been locked in disagreement. No matter how I marshalled my arguments I could not persuade them that Pan-Africanism was an African Personality to the World Working Class Movement. Indeed within Pan-Africanism we faced possible unnecessary “ruptures” between […]
NIA Confirms Solo Sandeng’s Death But..
It took the Gambia government two months to confirm the death in custody of Ebrima Solo Sandeng. The opposition activist was tortured to death after his arrest on April 14th. His only crime– if there is any — is to lead a peaceful demonstration calling for electoral reforms. Sandeng, a […]
Rwandan Editor Cries For Gambia’s Mandinkas
Editor of Rwanda’s only English daily has written an editorial, urging the world to protect Mandinkas from being terminated by President Yahya Jammeh. In the editorial published below, the editor explained why the world must not sit idle and allow a replica of Rwanda’s genocide in which over 800,000 Tutsis […]
Gambian Judiciary Promoting Tyranny
The state vs Ousainou darboe and 19 others The disgraceful conduct on Wednesday last of the Judge trying the case of Lawyer Ousainou Darboe, we have to realize that this is a political case and not a legal case, and must be defended as such. The lawyers should not […]