The Gambia Democracy Fund (GDF) is saddened and disappointed by the conviction of Lawyer Ousainou Darboe, his party leaders and supporters but the money machine of anti-Jammeh dictatorship is not surprised by the Gambia government’s blatant disregard for the rights of the people. In a press release published below, GDF […]

 Enough is Enough, Time to Take Back Our Lives. PRESS REALEASE. The closer we get to the December presidential election the further we seem to be getting from political clarity and sanity in the Gambia; the further from lifting the country out of  the quagmire that it is deeply stuck in and […]

By Ousainou Mbenga As Jammeh’s neocolonial regime is on the brink about to be flicked off the cliff, we must ask ourselves the imperative question: To what end are we fighting to liberate our beloved Gambia? Are we fighting for “short-term gains” such as mere regime change, meaningless reforms, including […]

The International Community has been put on notice about the situation in the Gambia, with unprecedented diplomatic action by the United Kingdom at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The British Permanent Mission and Ambassador to the UN Mathew Rycroft recently engaged the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon […]

The Secretary General of the People’s Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism has asked about the body of the slain opposition activist Ebrima Solo Sandeng. In a solidarity message on the conviction of the United Democratic Party leadership and supporters published below, Halifa Sallah asked: “Where is his body? Every body […]

By Baba Jobe It was Friday afternoon when I emerged from the Charing Cross tube station. I had just disembarked from a Northern Line sparsely filled train heading to Edgeware. I had travelled from the northwest of England to attend a protest organised by Gambian human rights activists to highlight […]

By Abdoulie John Pressure is mounting on the Gambia governmemt to free jailed opposition leader and dozens of his supporters. “ARTICLE 19 is gravely concerned by the ongoing attacks on civic space, the imprisonment of opposition leader, Ousainou Darboe, two of his family members, and 25 opposition party supporters, and by allegations of torture […]

By Bunja Darboe I am not a politician and I am not a tribalist. Though I have some little knowledge about politics but I have always distanced my myself from political wrangling. Thomas Sankara once said: “A soldier without any political knowledge is a virtuous criminal”. So I have some […]

It has been 91 days since opposition political activist Ebrima Solo Sandeng was tortured to death by Gambian security agents, yet the government remains tight-lipped on how and why he died or who participated in the cold-blooded murder. The Jammeh regime that has innocent Gambian blood on its hands only […]

Despite being disappointed for not being protected by the Gambian laws, the jailed opposition leader said is not “embarrassed by this conviction. My children, brothers, cousins, sisters are not embarrassed by my conviction. My political family and my friends are not embarrassed by my conviction,” Lawyer Ousainou Darboe of the […]

By: Dr Alhagi Manta Drammeh The extensive interest in Islam recently in the world, has occasionally caused confusion as a result of ignorance and misinformation. Distortions of the teachings of Islam  through myopic lenses  have resulted from negative passions. Therefore, the task of understanding Islam as lived and viewed traditionally […]

The deputy party leader of the opposition United Democratic Party has written to the President of Nigerian Bar Association, calling for the withdrawal of Nigeria’s legal technical assistance to the Gambia. Aji Aji Mariama Secka’s petition came in the wake of the illegal prosecution and sentencing of opposition leadership and […]