Kairo News publishes below the list of peaceful Gambian protesters arraigned at the High Court in Banjul on Wednesday. The list includes Lawyer Ousainou Darboe, his family members and United Democratic Party leadership. Click the image to view the list of charged opposition protesters and their charge.

The United Democratic Party leader and his co-accused this afternoon pleaded innocent against six counts, including organising unlawful and riotous procession. Lawyer Ousainou Darboe and co’s were last week arrested and detained for their involvement in a peaceful protest. The protest stemmed from the death in custody of UDP’s Organising […]

Alhagi Yerro Jallow, you have summed it all. There is hardly anything anybody can add to what you have written about Ousainou Darboe. He has proven himself. Those loud-mouth politicians who have been playing to the gallery frequenting almost every online radio, making high sounding speeches signifying nothing, are today […]

    Alagi Yorro Jallow I know Ousainou Darboe. I like lawyer Darboe. I don’t want to seem like a sycophant, but I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that I admired him. I disagreed with much of what he said, sure, but I recognized he is a giant for […]

The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) wants The Gambia government to investigate the reports of the death in custody, ensure prompt arrest and prosecution of the perpetrators. The commission is deeply concerned by the reports of events that took place on 14 and 16 April 2016 in […]

Some 55 members of the United Democratic Party have been arrested during peaceful demonstrations, including leader Ousainou Darboe, UDP Deputy Administrative Secretary Alhaji Darboe told RFI. The party has 25 names of people who were arrested on Thursday while calling for electoral reforms, and another 30 who went out on […]

The detained opposition leader of the United Democratic Party is nursing injuries, Kairo News Mile 2 sources confirmed. “I can say with certainty that Lawyer Ousainou Darboe sustained injuries on his forehead and right shoulder,” said our source. All our sources would not ascertain how the detained opposition leader had […]

This is an alert that is worth writing about. It is meant to give the world a clue of what President Yahya Jammeh’s government is capable of doing. A paranoid government or a government that is scared of everything, including its own shadows, will do anything humanely possible to maintain […]

The leader of the opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) has expressed the way and manner his party’s newly elected Organising Secretary Ebrima Solo Sandeng was tortured to death. “We have gathered credible information that the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, Yankuba Badjie, unleashed his drunk hooligans on the […]

By Dida Halake In Dying Like Biko, Solo Sandeng Frees a Nation Let the day be etched in the minds of Gambians and Friends of The Gambia everywhere. Thursday 14th April 2016: The day Solo Sandeng led some forty colleagues in a peaceful demonstration carrying nothing more dangerous than a […]

A key political activist of the United Democratic Party who was arrested on Thursday had been reportedly killed by Gambian security. Solo Sandeng, the newly elected Organising Secretary of the UDP, was tortured to death. His arrest and detention resulted on Thursday April 14th when he and more than a […]

By Samba Jobe ‘Enlightenment is always good but illusions of being enlightened can be dangerous. It often leads to headstrong belief in one’s infallibility and self-righteousness,…’ My query here is to look briefly at the narrative of what many  see  PDOIS as socialists. Halifa, Sedia and Sam have fed Gambians […]