Breakdown of cranes at the Gambia Ports Authority had put the country’s pride reexport trade in serious jeopardy, informed sources told Kairo News. “All the cranes, except one, have not been operational since August 21st,” a trusted source said. “This is the second time the machines use for offloading containers […]

Justice Emmanuel Ahmadi of the special criminal court division of the High Court in Banjul on Wednesday acquitted and discharged deputy editor-in-chief of the Daily Observer newspaper and his co-accused. Alhagie Jobe one Mbye Bittaye left the court free men. Since his arrest on February 7th, 2013, Alhagie Jobe remains […]

By Abdou Jeli Keita  I fled the Gambia on August 10, 2014 after I was unlawfully detained under very brutal condition for allegedly feeding wrong information to Gambians and enemies of the Gambia government base abroad and belonging to opposition parties, an accusations which are baseless. Prior to fleeing the […]

The English premiership transfer deadline witnesses huge sums changing hands between multi-million Dollar football clubs. Top players stretch their contracts to the last minutes influencing price tags and contractual agreements. The panic buying usually doesn’t involve young inexperienced players. Gambian young talented player Modou Barrow became a Swansea City player […]

An acute shortage of insulin has put the lives of Insulin-dependent Gambians at serious risk, Kairo News has learnt. “As we speak, there is a serious shortage of Insulin in the Gambia,” said a trusted source. The source said his close relative has had his leg amputated almost died for […]

Dear Editor, I have just returned from a long-weekend in England’s Ashdown Forest (like KK1 and Nyambali Forest, I am always inspired by the magic of the forest!) to find much hullabaloo by my Gambian Diaspora fans about the fact that His Excellency Alhaji Dr. (etc.) Yahya AJJ Jammeh could […]

The Gambia’s monarch trumpeting Member of Parliament has not only blinked but also cried foul, blaming opposition leaders for misquoting him. Hon. Abdoulie Saine, who represented Banjul Central Constituency, had earlier became a center of attraction over his statement to crown President Yahya Jammeh a king. In May this year, […]

It has been exactly two years after Gambian president ordered the illegal executions of nine death row inmates. The widely condemned executions were carried out in secret. It all started when President Yahya Jammeh vowed to “drink alcohol and eat pork if he did not carry out the executions as […]

Kairo News has been inundated with messages from its State House sources that revelations by Pa Ousman Bojang have dealt huge blow on President Yahya Jammeh, his cohorts and the family. Pa Bojang, the former Managing Director of President Jammeh’s Kanilai Group International, has been on the run since April […]

By Alex De Waal and Abdul Mohammed           SOMERVILLE, Mass. — Security is a core concern of the American government’s Africa policy. This was made clear in May when President Obama proposed a $5 billion Counterterrorism Partnerships Fund to supplement programs the Pentagon already has in 35 countries. And it […]

  With a comedian as the President, there is never a shortage of weird and dull moments in the Gambia. It’s all about either attracting people’s attention or exercising the power of control. Take a bow Gambians and aim at a man who preoccupies himself with garnering titles instead of […]