By DAVID CHANEN, STAR TRIBUNE A handful of protesters who support Papa Faal gathered outside of the courthouse. A Brooklyn Center U.S. Air Force veteran accused of participating in a coup to overthrow the president of Gambia was denied release Thursday during an appearance in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis. […]

The Secretary General of the opposition People’s Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism has written that “Even though the insurgency was contained during the early hours of the morning, the officials were completely silent in the morning of the 30th of December.  This gave rise to suspense in the public […]

Gambia coup plotters: model citizens at home in US, but ‘everybody has a breaking point’ Cherno Nije and Papa Faal are successful American citizens who by all accounts were living the American dream. No one knew of their secret plan to seize control of their home country of the Gambia. […]

President Yahya Jammeh has appointed a prominent Gambian media chief as the country’s Minister of Information, Communication and Technology, Kairo News was tipped. Sheriff Bojang snr. replaces Nana Grey-Johnson who was fired from the post in November 2013. No reasons were advanced for the removal of Nana, a seasoned journalist who joined […]

By Baba Galleh Jallow In the last three months of 2014, Yahya Jammeh gave orders that the titles Nasiru Deen and Babili Mansa be immediately dropped from his lengthy appellation of His Excellency the President of the Republic Sheikh Alhaji Professor Dr. Yahya AJJJ Jammeh Nasiru Deen Babili Mansa. As […]

Armed soldiers have locked down the capital city of Banjul, believing that the armed attackets of State House last Tuesday are still present there. Residents told Kairo News how armed soldiers have been putting them under siege. Fully armed men have since been mounting thorough searches in homes. A reliable […]

Several dozen military personnel and civilians were arrested, and a large cache of weapons and explosives were found following a reported coup attempt in The Gambia, an intelligence source said Thursday. The suspects have been interrogated and were being held in “four villas” in or near the tiny west African […]

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh is reported to have sent a plane to Guinea-Bissau for the extradition of the alleged Tuesday’s coup plotters, credible sources informed Kairo News. The coup plotters, whose identities remain anonymous, fled to Guinea-Bissau following a reported shootout at State House in Banjul. Some of the alleged […]

Gambian President has blamed unnamed foreign powers for backing dissidents who launched attack on the seat of government in the capital Banjul. President Yahya Jammeh arrived home from a foreign trip on Wednesday. His loyal forces at State House on Tuesday killed some Gambians in a purported coup attempt. “It […]

Sphere Three, The Diaspora Political Force Part Three Immigration has become a global phenomenon that has today left few societies standing in their pure ethnic shells and there is no going back on this. Naturally the impact of mass emigration has also left few societies intact. So it is also […]

President Yahya Jammeh Has Lost the Political/ Moral Battle and Must Step Down Now! The foiled December 29, 2014 coup effort in The Gambia is yet another blow to an already embattled regime and its head, Yahya Jammeh. As it were, the foiled coup followed in the wake of world-wide […]

Forces loyal to President Yahya Jammeh claimed to be 100% certainty in full control of the situation in Banjul where a reported coup was purported to have been repelled. Senior military officials also confirmed that former Col. Lamin S. Sanneh and three attackers are feared dead. One of the attackers was captured […]