The activist victims of the Gambia’s repressive and dictatorial regime have just entered the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, to observe the country’s representative present overall human rights report. Dr. Amadou Scattered Janneh, former Gambian Minister of Communication and Kairo News Executive Editor, Musa Saidykhan, have flown to Geneva […]

Foday Makalo was once labelled by the ex-Gambian President Sir Dawda Jawara as “Foday Mmee kalan lon” meaning, Foday it is hard to describe you in a political rally. Foday Makalo, a fire brand opposition parliamentarian of the National Convention Party (NCP),  was described as a hard-hitting and uncompromising opposition. […]

Detainees and prisoners in Guinea are held in squalid, overcrowded facilities that fall far short of international human rights standards, according to a new UN report released Monday on human rights in detention centres in the country.Based on visits by the UN Human Rights Office in Guinea to 30 detentions […]

One of the most successful Nollywood stars has explained how she had turned her misfortune into success. Mercy Johnson is a firm believer that “Everything has a reason.” Johnson’s inability to pass the university entrance examination prompted her to taste the waters of Nigeria’s ballooning movie industry. “I failed my […]

The Gambia government has been urged to review and scrap obnoxious and unfriendly media laws in the country. “Some of our media laws are not friendly and have been deterring young people from joining the profession,” said the President of Young Journalists Association of the Gambia (YJAG). Nfamara Jawneh said […]

Nigeria’s military says it has agreed a ceasefire with Islamist militants Boko Haram – and that the schoolgirls the group has abducted will be released. Nigeria’s chief of defence staff, Alex Badeh, announced the truce. Boko Haram has not made a public statement. The group has been fighting an insurgency […]

By Professor Sulayman Nyang Professor Ali A. Mazrui is dead. We hereby call upon the Almighty Allah to grant him mercy and the best of his rewards to his servants. His death is a shock to many of us and to the countless numbers who knew him personally and benefitted […]

Opposition People’s Democratic Organization for Independence and Socialism (PDOIS) has issued another reaction to comments published on Kairo News. Find below the reaction in full: CLARIFICATION Lafia wrote: “If PDOIS or Halifa Sallah himself wants to deny that his wife is a permanent secretary, then they must also tell us […]

Fatou Bensouda’s defiance to prosecute President Uhuru Kenyatta has earned her the title of being the most hated person in Kenya. Bensouda’s name emerges on top of ten most popular hated women in the East African nation. The Special Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is hated for her […]

  Ali Mazrui, the truly Pan-African intellectual of our time, has passed away in the USA, aged 81. Kenyans, led by President Uhuru, are mourning, as are many many Africans and African-Americans around the world. For me it is a personal loss, because the man was, besides Frantz Fanon and […]

By Suntou Touray Confirmed Reports Indicate that at least five Gambian couples killed each other in the West in recent times. Three cases were reported in the United Kingdom, one in Sweden and one in the United States.  The figure could be higher if depression and heart attack related deaths […]