PRESS RELEASE POTENTIAL BLOODBATH BEING OCHESTRATED BY GAMBIA GOVERNMENT AGAINST THE OPPOSITION UNITED DEMOCRATIC PARTY. The United Democratic Party (UDP) is informing the international community about a potential bloodbath being orchestrated by the Gambia Government against the party. Currently the UDP has embarked on a countrywide tour starting from 16th […]
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UDP Begins Nationwide Tour
UDP Nationwide Tour April 16 – April 26 2015 It’s no secret the appalling human rights abuses in the Gambia. It is a known fact the serious economic mismanagement by the authorities in the Gambia. These and many other issues are known quantities to everyone. While we keep ourselves reminded […]
Where Accountability Accountability To Gambian People Stops And Begins?
As we all are aware, Jammeh’s rule is an event receding into the past, into Gambian history, and we all know there is NO statute of limitation on murders in any civilized society, since the existence of mankind. In addition to “murders” we all are aware of, and tracking of […]
The Validity Of Gambia’s Death Penalty Regime: A Question The Supreme Court Answered Incorrectly
By Lamin J Darbo With the recent announcement of Courts Martial verdicts on the 30 December 2014 State House attacks, the question of the death penalty is back on the agenda as a topic of major public interest. Both sides of the underlying political spectrum informing the December events are […]
Tribalism: Constitutional Constipation
By Johnson My Marxist/Leninist/Maoist Comrades cum Friends and I had been locked in disagreement. No matter how I marshalled my arguments I could not persuade him that Pan-Africanism was an African Personality to the World Working Class Movement. Indeed within Pan-Africanism we faced possible unnecessary “ruptures” between so called “Nkrumahists”; […]
15 Years Still No Justice For Fallen Students
FIFTEEN YEARS HAS GONE, WHEN 14 INNOCENT STUDENTS PLUS A RED CROSS VOLUNTEER AND A THREE-YEAR OLD CHILD WERE BRUTALLY MASSACRED IN COLD BLOOD BY THE POLICE INTERVENTION UNIT (PIU) OF THE GAMBIA, AND YET STILL NO JUSTICE HAS BEEN TAKEN PLACE !!! By Lamin Saddam Sanyang, The Netherlands Fifteen years ago April […]
The Gambian Opposition: Some Honest Analysis Please
By Alkali Conteh Growing up in Sabbach-Sanjal in the early 1960’s we witnessed the Gambia’s political climate beginning to shape up. As the powers in charge were determined to derail the efforts of the emerging political landscape to bring self rule to our nation, our people turned to the grassroots […]
The Iirresponsible Sale Of Tribalism In The Gambia
By Janko Camara Of recent, we have witnessed some brazen steps taken by some of our compatriots to sell tribalism in a somewhat subtle and disingenuous manner. An on-line paper published a list of names purportedly belonging to the Jola tribe, occupying high offices in The Gambia. I have also […]
Post-Jammeh Era: Accountability Or Witchhunt?
By Abdul Savage I submit it will be unjust, unfair and outright disrespectful to suggest any future Accountability exercise by the Gambian people as “witch-hunt”. ONE THING we all can agree on, whether you are a pro-Jammeh, pro-APRC or not is this: lots of wrongs have been done to the […]
Letter To President Buhari
My dear President-elect, with the election behind you and your emergence as the President Elect of Nigeria, please listen to these words that I speak as you ready yourself to form your cabinet and tackle the daunting multiple challenges facing Nigeria. Before anything else, please reach out to your predecessor, […]
Al-Shabab: A Misguided Group
By Alhagi Manta Drammeh The scene of the rampage and killing of harmless innocent students on a Kenyan University campus is condemned in the strongest terms. The act is Islamically abominable, unacceptable and has to be confronted head on. The attack of a Kenyan University campus by Al-Shabab is nothing […]
‘Gambia Doesn’t Deserve Jammeh’
The leader of the National Transitional Council of The Gambia (NTCG) issued a press release to condemn the verdict of court martial. Sheikh Sedia Bayo also described President Yahya Jammeh as a Monster that Gambians did not deserve. Find below the NTCG’s press release in full: PRESS RELEASE ON THE […]