Apart from parading him on the busy business streets of Banjul, agents of the National Intelligence Agency have also reportedly denied Momodou Sabally access to family food. The former high profile government official was shackled as the agents escorted him to and from the State House for an unclear mission. A […]

The government of South Africa hailed the success of this year’s Mandela Day, thanking its citizens for their good deeds in honour of Nelson Mandela. Communications Minister Faith Muthambi said on Saturday that every person had the ability and responsibility to make a positive change. “No matter how small the action, […]

By Lamin Touray Human rights defenders and activists have called on British and European policy makers to impose travel bans and asset freeze on Gambian president Yahya Jammeh and close associates. Speaking at a meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Human Rights in the House of Commons on Wednesday, […]

“Secularism is good in so many ways because we don’t have a monolithic religion in the Gambia, and even within the same faith groups, people tend to have some variations in the way they conduct their religious affairs,” the former Wuli West Member of Parliament tells Kairo Radio. Sedia Jatta […]

On behalf of my family, the Basse Mansajang Kunda community, Upper River Region and The Gambia at large, I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank you all for your relentless supports during these hard times. Your kind words and the wonderful memories you’ve shared about my late […]

By Mai Fatty Dr Saine may be a great activist or academic. Instead of uniting, he has proven incapable to hold the units together. Instead of fostering consensus and unity, his leadership produced dissension, disunity, acrimony and endless internal bickering. I have been silent since the withdrawal of GMC from […]

The Gambia Democratic Action Group (GDAG) wishes to extend its heartfelt condolence to the family, friends and associates of the late Bubacarr Michael Baldeh who died in Senegal on Wednesday July 9 2014. Our condolence also goes to our Gambian brothers and sisters in the struggle for this sad turn […]

The Gambia Democratic Action Group (GDAG) wishes to extend its heartfelt condolence to the family, friends and associates of the late Bubacarr Michael Baldeh who died in Senegal on Wednesday July 9 2014. Our condolence also goes to our Gambian brothers and sisters in the struggle for this sad turn […]

  By Mathew K JallowIt hit Gambians across tribe and geographic location like a ton of bricks. For Fulas around the country and in the diaspora, it is a slap on the face, but for others, it was downright insulting. The denial of burial, of late Hon. Buba Baldeh, in […]

By Papa Kumba Loum Sad news coming from Senegal and the Gambia was that Yahya Jammeh had given instructions that the remains of the late Buba Baldeh, former Member of Parliament and Minister of Youth and Sports and Culture during the PPP era, will not be allowed to enter the […]

Gambian dictator has denied the body of Buba Baldeh burial right in Basse Mansajang Kunda. His government’s decision to prevent the late exiled activist’s body enter the Gambia does not come as a big surprise. The many people who have travelled to Mansajang Kunda are now en-route to Madina Qunas, […]

  “If President Jammeh denies my body to enter the Gambia, bury me in Madina Qunas in Senegal,” Late Bubacarr Micheal Baldeh As if the political hero knew what would happen after his death, Bubacarr Baldeh instructed close relatives that, if he didn’t recover from the stomach complication from which […]