By Reuben Abati I have very vivid memories of my last visit to The Gambia. This was in 2013 when President Goodluck Jonathan paid a two-day visit to the country. In the course of that visit, President Jonathan commissioned the new Chancery of the Nigerian Embassy in Banjul, and also […]

The Gambia’s new President, His Excellency Adama Barrow congratulation, I hope you will quietly settle down to govern your people fast. The leaders of the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) and the whole world have done their own part, you have no excuse whatsoever to lack behind. The […]

Thank you Mr Mai Fatty for this very important clarification. It will be blanket amnesty and defeat for democracy, constitutionalism and rule of law if exiled Yahya Jammeh has been offered a sweetheart deal. I nearly have heart attack when I read that draft. Yahya Jammeh must not, under any […]

By Baba Galleh Jallow As I watched Yahya Jammeh get off of Gambian soil and step into the plane that carried him into exile, I felt heaviness in my chest and tears pouring uncontrollably down my face. No, they were not tears of joy at the fact that the tyrant […]

By Ebou Gaye It goes without saying that many people have breathed a sigh of relief and rejoiced over Jammeh’s fall from grace to grass. This is not because people hate him as a person, but because they hate his bad manners as a brutal, blood-thirsty dictator. It is a […]

The day that Gambians and Friends of The Gambia sigh in relief because the evil Monster Yahya Jammeh is to depart The Gambia (thus saving the country from the scourge of a war that had started two days earlier when Ecowas forces entered The Gambia to forcefully remove Jammeh), Mad […]

The First Task for the ‘Barrow Government’ – Release Political Prisoners My Suggestion We are looking forward to our brothers and sisters being released from illegal and unconstitutional and arbitrary arrest and detention without trial. Currently there are a number of our sons and daughters languishing in state orchestrated detention […]

INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF H.E. ADAMA BARROW PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE GAMBIA 19th January 2017 Fellow Gambians and friends of The Gambia, I am humbled to stand before you to address the whole world on this historic occasion. This is a day no Gambian will ever forget in one’s […]

THE END OF A DESPOT!!!!  By Emmanuel Daniel Joof In 48 Hours, The King of Gambia, Destined to Rule For 1 Billion Years Will be Finally Dethroned. President Yahya Jammeh the Despot Who Came to Power in a Coup detat on 22nd July 1994. JAMMEH IN A NUTSHELL: 1. He […]

I begin this piece by wishing heartfelt condolences to the man of the hour, The Gambia’s New President Adama Barrow for the loss of his beloved son. The people of The Gambia have bestowed upon Barrow the Presidency of the Nation, and yet fate robs him of his beloved son. […]

President Yahya Jammeh Why Opprobrium in A Doom Cause or Did You Deserve to Die? Alagi Yorro Jallow Only death can end both the spell to bewitch and the prerogative to dominate- and sometimes even death can snuff out power from a tyrant. The killing of a tyrant is specially […]

The Gambia’s defeated President Yahya Jammeh this evening declared a state of emergency, two days before he transfers power to President-elect Adama Barrow. The 90-day emergency takes effect immediately. Despite international pressure and threats of regional military intervention, Mr. Jammeh is refusing to step down. In a television announcement, Jammeh […]