“Halifa Sallah Calls Out Barrow’s Ministers As He Exposes Plans To Reintroduce Another Dictatorship!” Apparent this “dictatorship” will come about because Barrow’s Executive is supporting certain party candidates for the Parliamentary Elections! That argument is completely nonsensical because in every democracy without exception (USA, UK, Europe, India, etc) the Executive […]

By Alieu Manjang In his yesterday’s press conference, Honorable Halifa Sallah stated that the involvement of members of the cabinet in the nomination of candidates in the upcoming national assembly election will pave the way for the reproduction of another dictatorship in the Gambia. While his argument might be channeled […]

Of all the 53 constituencies in the country Niamina East is the only one where two Tactical Alliance member parties – United Democratic Party (UDP) and Gambia Moral Congress (GMC) – fielded in candidates for the national assembly elections scheduled for April 6th. Both parties had their candidates nominated in […]

By Saul Saidykhan Dateline: February 18th, 1982. Both myself and my homeland, The Gambia were teenagers, my country being a little older than me. Young Gambia had rudely lost its innocence only seven months earlier when the late Kukoi Samba Sanyang led a group of mostly semi-literate, impatient, and idealistic […]

By Manding Darboe Number one, I am not a lawyer or a constitutional lawyer for that matter. The Gambia Constitution was not violated by His Excellency Adama Barrow’s Coalition Government in any way shape or form. What happened was a “PROCEDURAL-SNAFU” rather than a constitutional violation which should not be […]

The Attorney General and Minister of Justice Abubacarr Marie Tambedou advised President Adama Barrow not to append his signature on the two recently amended constitutional provisions. In a statement published below, Minister Tambedou believes “that the procedure adopted at the National Assembly to amend these constitutional provisions was misconceived. The […]

In a shrunken global community thanks to the Internet, word gets around pretty fast. As I arrived Demba Doo [Sukuta] from Dabnani [Gunjur] on Sunday evening, a clearly agitated friend called to say I must respond to a critique against my contention that the National Assembly’s (NA) purported amendment of […]

Alagi Yorro Jallow “Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed” Mao Zending “Any Coalition has its troubles as every married man knows” Arthur Hays Sulzberger” These are not normal times. These are extraordinary times. And extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. The vitality of democracy is […]

The three major political parties that agreed on forging a Tactical Alliance in the forthcoming national assembly elections have made their case. The parties – United Democratic Party, National Reconciliation Party and Gambia Moral Party – reiterated that “as founding members of the Coalition 2016 which removed Yahya Jammeh from […]

This is the Case for the Prosecution presented by Halifa Sallah in FOROYAA and Lamin J Darbo in KAIRONEWS:- “The only available mechanism to amend the Constitution lies in the procedure delineated at Section 226, which states, at 226(1):- “subject to the provisions of this section, an Act of the […]

The ongoing debate and discussion in relation to the approach of the coalition to the incoming parliament is skewed towards depicting the coalition as a single entity with uniform intention of contesting the elections separately. Thus, many holes are left unfilled in the debate as many legitimate questions are not […]

In his seminal memoir, The Point of Departure, Robin Cook, one of New Labour’s leading luminaries, provided a compelling rendition of conscientious conduct in the public life of a public officer. Then Leader of the House of Commons (the Commons), and having been previously removed as Foreign Secretary over policy […]