President Sall Must Stop Appeasing Tyranny and Speak Up! According to a Saturday 4th June publication of the Senegalese newspaper, the “Enquête,”a former member of the Jammeh’s presidential guard, Musa Sarr, narrowly escaped being abducted by agents of the Gambian secrete service to be taken across the border to face torture […]

Who says babies don’t have a stake in the struggle to liberate the Gambia from the clutches of dictatorship? A month’s old baby Aisha Fatty gained media limelight after she was detained with her mother who joined protesters to demand the release of her detained husband. Aisha and mother have […]

A deadly attack on Musa Sarr in Senegal is yet another manifestation of President Yahya Jammeh’s arrogance without borders. Sarr, a deserted former military officer implicated in the December 2014 attack on State House, was attacked by Jammeh’s thugs. Their goal is to teargas, tie and bundle him to Banjul […]

  Before 3rd April 2016 it seemed people the world over had heard of the name Ramon Fonseca, much, much less in the small, remote and isolated west African pariah state of The Gambia. When I made a call of randomly collected list of names of locally based Gambian journalists whose […]

The ongoing drama that is unfolding in The Gambia, is one that can end in either of two ways: explode into a violent encounter and bloody clamp-down; or an embarrassing back-down by dictator Yaya Jammeh’s forces of darkness and repression leading to the soaring of spirits among the opposition that […]

All men in physical nature are seen with the same lenses but some are more manly than others. These are the few who selflessly put their lives at stake for everyone to enjoy freedom, equality, human rights, etc. Such men — one in every thousand — believe they are created […]

Until he had officially become a member of President Yahya Jammeh’s criminal government in early 2015, Sheriff Bojang had been admired and revered for his God-endowed writing skills. Any time the name Sheriff Bojang is mentioned, people think of that smart, talented journalist whose essays are loaded with literary sense. […]

    When he had a member of staff of his ministry read for him a statement  addressed to a May Day rally, the minister of Trade, Industry, Regional Integration and Employment, Abdou Jobe, said that,” the Gambia government has said people should become self-employed as this would bring the necessary flexibility […]

The Gambia’s embattled leader is showing signs of desperation, as evidenced in his government’s handling of weeks of political crisis. The crisis would have been carefully managed had the government listened to opposition voices. But you don’t expect anyone who is above 50 years to change his bad manners overnight. […]

This year’s Mother’s Day is not a celebration for the children of Fanta Darboe-Juwara. For more than two decades each year Fanta smiled as her children, husband and friends congratulated her for taking the pains, troubles and patience of going through Motherhood. Only those who go through it know how it […]

Discontinue Inter-Party Talks Till These 6 Conditions are Met! According to the privately owned Gambian daily, The Point, all the seven registered opposition parties have been locked in talks with the ruling APRC just three weeks after the coldblooded murder of Solo Sandeng, a UDP militant and the arrest of […]