By Max Since 1994 when the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council (AFPRC) toppled democratically elected government and installed themselves as a new regime , The Gambia has been undergoing an identity crisis and disintegration of republicanism. A long term trend of this will directly led to National disintegration. To begin with, […]

Always remember that dictators depend on other men to do the job of subjugating their people for them. The dictator will never personally descend on the ground to fight, arrest, torture and imprison a person or several people, a dictator will never engage in a one on one fist fight […]

Hassan al-Turabi, the Sudanese opposition leader who helped bring President Omar al-Bashir to power, has died at 84 in the capital Khartoum. Hassan al-Turabi, the Sudanese opposition leader who helped bring President Omar al-Bashir to power, has died at 84 in the capital Khartoum. A hospital source told AFP news […]

THOSE WHO CAST VOTES DETERMINE NOTHING; THOSE WHO COUNT VOTES DETERMINE EVERYTHING By Ousainou Mbenga On June 25 2015, the desperate despot, Jammeh yet again unleashed another of his trademark amendments to assure himself “president for life”. The despotic one million Dalasis ($25,000) fee imposed on presidential candidates and the […]

Yahya Jammeh’s critics have always blamed him for championing the course of his minority ethnic Jola community. They cited how he had empowered and employed Jolas in almost every top ranking government position, including the security forces. All these have been done at the expense of qualified and competent members […]

By Janko Camara Dear Bax Your views insinuate lack of trust among the opposition parties Weak leadership and thus candidate prone to manipulation by other forces within the party. Now let us look at these and your other points in detail. If your insinuation on lack of trust is true, […]

The Gambia’s former military Spokesman has put his mouth where most of his colleagues dare talk, let alone write about. Retired Lt. Col. Lamin Gano blogs about why President Yahya Jammeh must not run for a fifth term. Gano’s article – which opens serious intellectual discussion – is published on […]

Allies of Iran’s reformist President Hassan Rouhani have won a landslide victory in Tehran, in the first parliamentary vote since Iran signed a nuclear deal with world powers. With 90% of the votes counted, the pro-Rouhani List of Hope is set to take all 30 parliamentary seats in the capital. […]

2016 is a defining year for The Republic of The Gambia. An election year. The year that could decide the fate of a country; the fate of an entire nation. A fate that hangs by a mere thread. The year that could usher in change, transformation, and restoration of democracy and rule […]

How the 30th December coup attempt was planned and executed What happened when 11 exiles armed themselves for a violent night in the Gambia In the dark hours of the morning on December 30, 2014, eight men gathered in a graveyard a mile down the road from the official residence of […]

Please allow me the space to share these few words with the Gambian people and the world at large. It is overdue for the Alliance of People Recognised as Criminals (APRC) government to be dumped in mid sea to perish. The people of The Gambia had suffered for so long […]

Committed Gambians who believe in change through democratic elections should consider coming home in December 2016. It is a fact that over the years, the diaspora Gambians have done a tremendous job in exposing dictatorship in the Gambia. It is also a fact that without the financial remittances of the […]