The Gambia’s former Vice President has likened the Gambia’s predicament to the case of a” helpless victim” who incurs “the wrath of a kidnapper.” Bakary Bunja Dabo told a recent concluded  People’s Progressive Party (PPP) meeting in the United States that the onus now lies on Gambians, particularly the opposition, […]

By Amadou Kuyateh In UK An arch supporter of President Yahya Jammeh was sent for hip replacement overseas only to be abandoned has been offered free treatment by the British government. The teacher [name withheld] was promised a sponsorship package of £13,000 left the Gambia with only £7, 000, with […]

By Amadou Kuyateh In UK An arch supporter of President Yahya Jammeh was sent for hip replacement overseas only to be abandoned has been offered free treatment by the British government. The teacher [name withheld] was promised a sponsorship package of £13,000 left the Gambia with only £7, 000, with […]

Anyone who cares to note with sincerity cannot help but hear the agonizing moans of the Gambia, a once upon a time happy and peaceful nation, under Dictator Jammeh. What is even more annoying is his unrepentant demeanor and unflinching passing his faults to the West. When will this senseless […]

The ANC’s majority shrank to 62.1% as it won its sixth term in power, while the Democratic Alliance grew its vote share significantly to 22.2%, the Electoral Commission confirmed on Saturday. Founded eight months ago, the far-left Economic Freedom Fighters came third in Wednesday’s elections with 6.3% after a campaign […]

The leader of the People’s Progressive Party is of the view that unless changes his bad system of governance, “President Yahya Jammeh will never be the Chairman of the African Union (AU).” Despite being in office for almost two decades, Gambian leader is yet to assume leadership of any regional […]

By Mohamed Lamin Sillah March 31st 2014 saw the official coming to an end of the Gambia’s formal groundnut marketing season. It was a season without its usual characteristics fanfare, for crowded seccos, as buying points are called here, pyramids of groundnuts, dwarfing rusty screening implements that look like mammals from prehistoric […]

Kairo News sources have confirmed that the Gambia’s Minister of Transport and Infrastructure is still admitted at Madid hospital. This contradicts an earlier report published on the pro-government Daily Observer that Bala Garba Jahumpa was released from hospital. Mr. Jahumpa was airlifted to Spain for further medical treatment last month […]

By Suntou Touray A Gambian in the United States asked what the United Democratic Party (UDP) did for jailed UDP treasurer Amadau Sanneh. And the writer did not venture into what crime Amadou Sanneh was jailed for? It is like blaming the Muslim Brotherhood for the jailing of President Morsy […]

A court in Burkina Faso has refused to rule on a request by the family of ex-President Thomas Sankara for his body to be exhumed for DNA tests. His relatives and supporters condemned the decision, saying they wanted proof that it was his body. The High Court said it lacked […]

A disaporan Gambian journalist has written an open letter to the Chairman of the Committee for the Restoration of Democracy in the Gambia (CORDEG) Professor Abdoulaye Saine. Yero Jallow, whose letter is published verbatim below, believes “that CORDEG has been reduced to a celebrity organization.” Dear Professor Saine, I write […]