For more than 19 years, Gambians have been on a journey of fact finding mission about why their president behaves in peculiar ways. Kairo News too has been on this journey until last week when we finally cracked the nut. What our investigation has found was that our president had […]
Politics
Gambia’S Criminal Justice System Liquidates Amadou Sanneh
“Amadou Sanneh was Jailed by the criminal justice system to prevent him becoming potential UDP leader.” Lawyer Darboe Leader of the opposition United Democratic Party (UDP), Ousainou Darboe, has said that his party will proffer a new candidate for 2016 presidential elections who will be “more formidable” than he […]
EU Pledges Major Cash Support To Africa
The European Union will offer Africa 28 billion Euros (about $30 trillion) over six years to fund a range of projects, officials announced here at the end of the fourth EU-Africa summit. According to a joint communiqué issued after the meeting of 40 African leaders and 20 European counterparts, more money […]
Amnesty Gives Gambia Red Card
The UK-based human rights group has issued a red card to the Gambia government for its failure “to improve on its human rights situation.” Amnesty International (AI) says the West African country’s human rights situation has deteriorated since the Gambia’s first Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in 2010. “The government continues […]
Jammeh: Media Is Not Your Enemy
By Lamin Saddam Sanyang in The Netherlands The freedom of the media in the Gambia was seized on the 22nd of July 1994, when our democratic government was forcefully overthrown by President Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh and his bunch of criminals. From that day to date, so many rights, including those […]
GCC's Flexibility Is Undoubted
By Kebba Abdoulie Sanneh In the muddy waters of the asymmetrical Gambian politics on the ground and the current appearance of different diaspora organisations with their platforms outlining their goals, strategy and calculative measures of the highest Machiavellian theories of undermining, destablising and ultimately bringing the regime of terror to […]
In Defence of Baba Galleh Jallow
When the New African magazine gave an exclusive interview to President Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia who sought to mislead the world about the Gambia and himself, it was quite appropriate that Prof. Baba Galleh Jallow, a Gambian based in United States submitted a rejoinder to set the records straight. […]