Leadership can sometimes be a very complex discipline because to lead effectively you have to embrace yourself for conflicts and be candid enough even if it means creating new enemies. As a leader, you don´t expect to be liked or loved by everyone. What is important is to have integrity […]

Tsvangirai has been in and out of hospital since disclosing in June 2016 that he has colon cancer. Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai has died after a long battle with colon cancer. Tsvangirai has been in and out of hospital since disclosing his diagnosis in June […]

South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) accepted the registration of President Jacob Zuma. In a televised speech on Wednesday night, the embattled Zuma resigned “with immediate effect”. The ANC had earlier asked Mr. Zuma to step down or face a vote of no confidence in parliament. President Zuma, 75, […]

I am delighted to see President Adama Barrow highlighted the hypocrisy and lack of concern of many Gambian intellectuals and so called human rights defenders who have been silenced during 22 years of military dictatorship. In his speech in Turkey, President Barrow not only talked about human rights defenders’ lack […]

Let me agree with Mathew Jallow when he said that UDP and PDOIS are fundamentally different in style but I want to add that they are different in every other way. According to Prof. PLO Lumumba, “parties that rely on the support of an ethnic group are not really parties […]

There is a fundamental, albeit a significant, difference between UDP [United Democratic Party] and PDOIS [People’s Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism], and between Ousainou Darboe and Halifa Sallah. PDOIS is a doctrinaire party; the types that revolve around a single individual, not unlike a cult, and was in style […]

The Association of Non-governmental organisations (TANGO) that had paid a deaf ear to Yahya Jammeh’s excesses has now taken a 360 degree turn. Some of its members who are on record for denying inter-party youths access to the TANGO Building want to become the Guardian of the very Human Rights […]

The idea of seeking justice in post Jammeh era is simply seeking the truth. The Lack of truth has caused our country dearly. So no matter how long it takes, the truth must always remain and it is everlasting. It is the truth that must not be forgotten which is […]

Mr Editor, Please allow me to make the following clarifications in response to Ndey Sarr’s statement about Alkali Conteh. Firstly, Dr Isatou Touray’s name came as a proposal alongside a suggestion that UDP should start the process of identifying a presidential candidate. No selection process was going on at the […]

I must confess that I have not known Mr. Alkali Conteh personally but what I know is that his mother has brought into this world a worthy son – a son whose great sacrifices immensely contributed to the defeat of official banditory. A son who is as solid as a […]

By Foday Samateh One year on, the most charitable thing to say about the Barrow Administration is that it’s governing by temporizing. It’s a tale with all the pretensions of an epic story, but lacks a theme, a narrative and a rhythm. It’s a mishmash of words and acts that […]

New SG meets Permanent Secretaries on the way forward Secretary General and Head of the Civil Service, Mr Habib Drammeh engaged Permanent Secretaries on management systems and procedures in the civil service at the State House, this morning. Leading the discussions, Mr Drammeh highlighted various management tools and instruments to […]