By Ayodele Ameen, Executive Director, HURIDAC The political impasse in the Gambia has attracted the inputs of many commentators with different interpretation of the unfolding events. Outgoing President Yahya Jammeh has decided not to relinquish power despite the result of the election which he lost. Many political analysts and mind readers […]

Friday 13th January 2017 – Banjul, The Gambia. Out-Going President Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia sends packing Presidents Sirleaf Johnson of Liberia, the Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and President Buhari of Nigeria. The two were accompanied by Ghana’s just voted-out President – as an […]

A prominent Gambian activist has called on the Transition Team of President-elect Adama Barrow to redouble their “vigilance and determination” as the countdown to the inauguration becomes close. Assan Martin wants the team to keep up the inaugural momentum.  “The Coalition needs to take up the momentum as the defeated […]

The political top brass of President Yahya Jammeh’s Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) have been spotted quarreling at the Banjul International Airport where they assembled to welcome the ECOWAS crisis mediation team led by President Muhammadu Buhari of Nogeria. An onlooker pieces together what is perhaps considered one […]

Almost without exception, and outside of an armed military takeover, dictatorship usually succumbs to mass action, violent or otherwise, on the streets of a country, and the resultant forceful change in government may be termed a revolution. Recall the 1979 collapse of the Pahlavi dynasty in Iran, the 1989 uprising […]

By Lamin Keita Is ECOWAS Well-informed about the Legitimacy Regarding Jammeh’s use of the Courts, along with his Inconsistencies? Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf issued a statement on January 7, 2017 that “Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was closely monitoring proceedings in Gambia’s Supreme Court where Jammeh is […]

Statement by the Former Minister of Information & Communication, Sheriff Bojang on the Political Impasse in The Gambia. أعوذُ بِٱللَّهِ مِنَ ٱلشَّيۡطَٰنِ ٱلرَّجِيمِ (A’udhu billahi min ash-shaytaan-ir-rajeem) I begin in the name of Allah the Most High, the Most Clement and the Giver of Wisdom. I begin this statement by […]

People’s power is the answer to Jammeh’s arrogance “Whoever can conquer the streets will one day conquer the state and any state ruled by a dictator for every form of power politics, and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the streets,”   By Alagi Yorro Jallow The Gambia is […]

Let Peace and Tranquility Ring From Kartong To Koina in The Gambia. Thirty-two (32) years and then twenty-two (22) years of Misrule and Opportunistic collaborators of the First Republic and then by the Second Republic that were and are characterized by several variables in common. These are, “Government by “Musical […]

My brother president, I wrote to you on the 19th of this month as a brother regarding the untenable situation you find yourself in. In that piece, I encouraged you to take certain steps to get yourself out of the net that you trapped yourself in. Among other steps I […]

By Foday Samateh According to Senegalese news reports quoting the Senegalese Foreign Minister’s statement to the Senegalese National Assembly, “Yahya Jammeh could leave The Gambian power quietly, without being sued for his former exactions. The ECOWAS is in the process of negotiating an amnesty law for him, so that he […]

Motto: Power to the People Statement of Purpose Dear Gambians and Friends of The Gambia, At this crucial point in our country’s history, there is an urgent need for a comprehensive rethinking and a radical transformation of our national political culture. To carry out this important task of re-thinking and […]