Senegal on Saturday called for an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council after Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh announced he was rejecting the results of a Dec. 1 election which he lost to President-elect Adama Barrow.   Senegal’s Foreign Minister, Mankeur Ndiaye, speaking on television station TFM, also asked Jammeh […]

Yahya Jammeh has ‘bunkers and treasure’ at his farm near Senegal border and could start rebel movement, claims coalition Ruth Maclean in Banjul The autocratic ruler of the Gambia will be prosecuted for his crimes within a year of handing over the reins of government in January, the chair of […]

The Gambia’s President-elect has provided clues of his coalition government. Adama Barrow, who unseated incumbent leader Yahya Jammeh on December 1st elections, talked about his government’s policies and programs ahead of his (Barrow’s) inauguration next month. In this exclusive interview with Foroyaa Newspaper’s Kebba Jeffang, President Barrow said the incoming […]

By Ayodele Ameen  President Yahya Jammeh has been in office for the past 22 years, he joined the Gambian national Army in 1984, and became an officer in 1989. On Friday 22 July 1994 he led young officers in a military coup that ousted the government of President Dawda Jawara […]

By Bakary Sanneh My lovely Gambians, The outcome of the just concluded elections has made me very proud of Gambians. Today I can lift my head up with pride and majestically say that I am a Gambian for the profound victory against tyranny, injustice and political slavery. Kudos to those […]

As argued elsewhere, Gambia’s 01 December 2016 presidential election was a referendum on governance, governance as goes to liberty and dignity of the person under the rule of law. The seven-party Coalition ‘movement’, supported by an electorate dehumanised and enervated by state lawlessness and brutality, and yearning earnestly to be […]

Mr. President, I addressed you last in November 2011 and advised you, in the pages of this newspaper, to form a Government of National Unity (GNU). You did not heed my advice and decided to hold onto power for the next 5 years through mind-boggling brutality. The most appalling and […]

By Manding Darboe Yahya Jammeh, take these recommendation or Leave them at your own peril because Gambians will take over their Country from you by all means possible Proffer Agreement Against Prosecution. Yahya Jammeh, you must accept the December 1st 2016 elections results if you lose (which I think you […]

Kairo News has received many calls inquiring about the safety of the opposition Coalition Candidate Adama Barrow. This resulted after the wrathing of a high level plot to harm Mr. Barrow whose candidature has revived hope and enthusiasm in opposition politics in a country where more than 20 years of […]

As the countdown has started for Gambia’s elections, journalist Abdoulie JOHN got the opportunity to interview New-York based human rights lawyer Assan Martin on the elections and what lies ahead for tiny West African nation. Please read on: Gambians are about to choose the candidate who will preside over the […]

UA: 267/16 Index: AFR 27/5128/2016 Gambia                Date: 24 November 2016 URGENT ACTION  EX-GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL HELD INCOMMUNICADO Mamadou Sajo Jallow, an ex-deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs has been held incommunicado for more than two months at the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) without access to […]

WHAT’S THE STORY? HE believes homosexuality is a threat to human existence, claims he can cure Aids and is accused of shocking human rights abuses in Gambia as he runs for re-election as president. Reputedly one of the world’s most ruthless and eccentric leaders, Yahya Jammeh has ruled the country […]