By Ousainou Mbenga Now that the desperate Jammeh regime has rolled – up the blood-stained carpet after the welcome of his special guests to the annual Roots Homecoming Festival; it wouldn’t be long before he rolls it out again to commemorate July 22, marking 20 years of ruthlessness towards Gambia […]

Dear Sir, May I express my prop in my distress for witnessing your long and painful rule of our beloved nation, which has lost its fabric and grandeur of freedom, democracy and the rule of law at your invisible iron hand? Mr President, the wind of change that currently blows […]

Finally, 4135 days late (or 10 years and 120 days later), the British Establishment is agreeing with the million British citizens at Hyde Park on Valentine’s Day 2003 – by declaring Tony Blair “mad” on Iraq. On that 2003 Valentine’s Day, when this writer flew into London from Banjul to […]

The Gambia’s convicted former Secretary General and Minister of Presidential Affairs, Njogu Lamin Bah, has been denied the right to open his defence in court after his lawyer’s application to that effect was overruled by Magistrate Hilary Abeke of Banjul Magistrate’s Court. Had the court ruled otherwise on Wednesday, the […]

The Gambia’s Interior Minister, Ousman Sonko, has been incriminated in a bribery scandal involving the release of a Senegalese inmate at Mile II Central Prisons in 2012. The granting of amnesty to Dr. Amadou Scattred Janneh, former Minister of Information and Tamsir Jasseh, the former Deputy Director of Immigration in […]

Some Gambian men have been blamed for being responsible for “messing up our country’s politics as well as entrenching a dictatorial regime in power. “These men have messed up our politics; they have not been firm in their decision to get rid of the dictatorial regime,” an opposition activist of […]

By Gambiano Jammeh doesn’t see himself as a problem. And most Gambians inside Gambia agree with him. Those outside with a different telescope can trumpet that cattle fly. That’s fine with wisdom because it listens to even a donkey’s bray. But please don’t brandish lies about a majority of Gambians […]

Kairo News has been informed about how President Yahya Jammeh had “spiritually dismantled the National Alliance for Democracy and Development (NADD)” eight years ago. “I laughed off when I heard President Jammeh advising graduating university students to keep away from marabouts in April this year,” our State House Revealer said. […]

By Lamin Saddam Sanyang, The Netherlands The word “monarchy” literally means “rule by one.” When that sole ruler is wise and ethical, the government may run smoothly, but when that individual has flaws of character or temperament, they affect the entire nation. Monarchs typically hold their seats for life, which […]

The action by the Tujereng Police officers to continuously harass, abuse and arrest UDP [United Democratic Party] Youth Activist is a complete breach of the oath the police have taken to serve and protect the people and their liberty.  I need not to remind Station Officer [Hassan] Bahoum that the […]

Kairo News has got a hint of the Gambia government’s sinister plot to “hack into the computers” of diaspora journalists. The dictatorial regime has already devised a scheme to remote control the computers of Kairo News Senior Editor, Yaya Dampha and the Publisher of Freedom Newspaper, Pa Nderry M’bai. The […]

Police in Tujereng released a youth activist of the main opposition United Democratic Party from unlawful detention. Amadou Jallow, who has had his phone seized, was detained after his arrest on Sunday. The police had earlier stormed the Sunday youth re-organising and engagement tour of the party in Bato Kunku […]