The great Japanese writer and feminist, Raicho Hiratsuka, once famously wrote: “In the beginning, woman was truly the sun. An authentic person.” Today more than ever, the global economy needs precisely this kind of radiant sun—to provide light and nourishment. To provide healing. To dry out the swamps of poverty […]

A mission from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed a two week review of the Gambia’s economy, raising concerns about the country’s excess public debt, which is projected to exceed 90 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by the end of this year. The mission, led by Bhaswar Mukhopadhyay, assessed […]

By Abdoulie John Gambia’s top religious official has declined to comment on a controversial anti-gay bill that imposes life imprisonment on anyone found culpable ‘aggravated homosexuality’. “Unless I know for sure, I have no comment to make on this issue,” the President of Gambia Supreme Islamic Council, Imam Momodou Lamin […]

An autopsy by Sarjo Bayang Money and material loss quickly comes to mind whenever people talk about 20 years misrule in Gambia. By good account of time and human capital cost since the advent of military dictatorship, overall loss to Gambia as a nation is scary to imagine. Freezing Human […]

Quality Service Delivery in Telephony, GSM and Internet Services Wednesday 17 September 2014 TANGO Conference Hall 9.30am Introduction Telephony services were introduced in The Gambia since the early days of independence and has been for the most part essentially provided by the national telecommunications company, GAMTEL. There currently exist tens […]

The disqualified Gambia football federation presidential candidate is reported to have threatened the Normalisation Committee with legal action. Mustapha Kebbeh, the former football federation President, was ousted from office without completing his mandate. This followed the Gambia squad’s elimination from continental competition for fielding in over age players. The committee […]

FORWARD TO NEW YORK! By Ousainou Mbenga The recent out pour of calls, text messages and emails enquiring of our wellbeing following the cowardly attacks by Jammeh’s gang of thugs at the Hay Adams hotel are highly appreciated. Comrades, brothers and sisters, these attacks were inevitable and it may not […]

Story provided courtesy of BBC The judge in the Oscar Pistorius trial has ruled out all murder charges, but says he may still be guilty of pculpable homicide (manslaughter). Judge Thokozile Masipa said the prosecution had failed to prove the Olympic athlete killed his girlfriend deliberately in the toilet after […]

The Gambia’s former journalist-turned-security officer has provided details of his brutal tortures.  Abdou Jeli Keita, who is still nursing injuries caused by physical tortures meted out on him, fled into exile on August 10th, principally to “save my life.” Keita’s torturers threatened to put fire in his pants. “They wanted […]

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has uplifted the status of two military officers who came from attending war college, Kairo News has reliably learnt. Colonel Paul Gomez (Papou) and Major Baboucarr Jarju (Stephen) were respectively promoted to the ranks of Brigadier and Lt. Colonel. The promotions, which took effect last Wednesday, […]

Baama in Mandinka means (an insult directed at someone’s mother). Saga Ndey, which means the same in Wollof, did the business in bringing former SG Sabally to the ground. At the centre of the last year’s New York protest in the prestigious Ritz Calton hotel were exiled journalists Omar Bah and […]