By Baba Galleh Jallow Those of us who have for so long advocated for the radical transformation of our society will not stop advocating for it because we now have a new political dispensation in place. In fact, getting rid of the despotic regime is just the first major step […]

Finance Minister Amadou Sanneh has started sharing a snippet of the former regime’s financial mess. The regime has dried coffers of two of the country’s major public corporations: Gambia Telecommunications Company Limited (Gamtel) and Social Security and Housing Finance Corporation (SSHFC). Mr. Sanneh revealed that the Jammeh APRC administration that […]

February 18th 2017 will remain a historic and symbolic day in the history of the Gambia, Africa’s smallest country on its mainland. The day provides Gambians the unique opportunity of celebrating their country’s 52nd independence anniversary from Great Britain as well as the inauguration of the third president. President Adama Barrow came […]

A renowned Gambian jurist has just taken oath of office as the country’s Chief Justice. Justice Hassan Bubacar Jallow has been the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) since 2003. Justice Jallow replaces Emmanuel Fagbenle who had earlier tendered his resignation. Jallow, a former Solicitor General, Attorney […]

By Lang Fafa Dampha  A Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in the South African style, in the Gambia today, a nation getting out of the jaws of autocracy and terrible human rights violations might face a lot of criticism from advocates of retributive justice and will surely be rejected by them […]

Where Are Muckraking Journalists Today? Alagi Yorro Jallow While our democracy may not yet be strong enough and our institutions will constrain whatever abuses of power President Adama Barrow’s administration might commit during his three-year transition, but his policies and actions will not be as extreme as we me may […]

By Kemo Kinteh Without doubt President Jawara is happy, like million Gambians, to witness the downfall of a brutal dictator. And it is right that the new president call a courtesy on President Jawara to show respect and collect wisdom. And it is also right that over the weekend many […]

By Karamo Sawaneh I don’t want to weigh in this tribal stuff that has been going around since the election campaign, but there are articles written by people claiming the coalition government cabinet pick is not diverse and that it is based on tribal line. One thing that is appalling […]

A pervasive breeze of freedom graced the Gambian atmosphere from Sabi to Berending, it was like a parrot freed from a cage ushered into its natural habitat. Even if the cage was made of diamonds, that was immaterial as the value of freedom is unquantifiable. The butcher of Gambia is […]

Soul Searching For Gambians: My  Reflections By Emmanuel Daniel Joof Gambia is a very small country where many are related and connected. It has been an open secret to many Gambians that Jammeh and his henchmen carried out many killings of innocent Gambians. Even the individuals who carried out the […]

Swiss authorities are few months close to prosecuting a former Gambian minister. Ousman Sonko, the longest Interior Minister in Yahya Jammeh’s government, has had his asylum application denied in Sweden. Sonko filed another asylum in Switzerland where rights group Trial International filed a criminal complaint against him. Switzerland’s Office of […]

“Intellectual Astigmatism” Alagi Yorro Jallow Sometimes, self-criticism is necessary for us to make progress and what makes nations successful is the ability to find public policies and political institutions relevant to their people. Intellectualism and ideas are life; they must be relevant to our lives; they must be relevant to […]