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D. A. Jawo I had known the late Badara Alieu Joof for more than 50 years. We first met at the Yundum College in 1972 to train as teachers and we were not only batchmates, but we also built quite a strong bond of friendship which survived up to the […]
For Immediate Release Germany/Gambia: Migrant Massacre Survivor to Testify Alleged Gambian “Death Squad” Driver’s Trial Progresses (Berlin, January 19, 2023) – A Ghanaian citizen who survived the massacre of approximately 59 West African migrants in July 2005 by a paramilitary “death squad” in Gambia will testify before a court on January 19, […]
𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐞́ 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐭. 𝐒𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐫 𝐉𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐦𝐚 𝐚𝐬 𝐮𝐬 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐭. 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐏𝐚𝐤𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝟓𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐨, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐚 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 […]
We moved to Bundung in 1979 after a few years in Banjul, Perseverance Street. It was my mom, dad and I. Our little four bedroom Banku Bungno house would soon become a home for many of our extended family members. We had a variety of plants in our compound then. […]
President Barrow Authorises the Suspension of License of Suspected Importer and Pharmacy Following his address to the nation regarding the Acute Kidney Injury cases in The Gambia, President Barrow has authorised the Medicine Control Agency, through the Ministry of Health, to suspend the license of the suspected pharmacy and importer. […]
Some 34 years ago or thereabout, I would come to know Ebrima Cambi through a mutual friend in Brikama. I had finished High School and just starting the Sixth Form at Gambia High School where the same mutual friend was also in Upper Six. He was known to many as […]
The biggest country in Africa that the United Kingdom colonized is Nigeria. The biggest country that the United Kingdom colonized in Asia is India (which then comprised the present day Pakistan and Bangladesh). When the UK came into Nigeria and India, like all other countries they colonized, they brought along […]
There was a circulated photo of a vulture waiting for a starving Sudanese girl to die and feast on her during the 1993 famine in Sudan. The photo was taken by Kevin Carter, a South African photojournalist who later won the Pulitzer Prize for this ‘amazing’ shot (edited and left […]
1. Eagles fly alone and at high altitudes. They don’t fly with sparrows, Ravens and other small birds. Meaning: Keep away from small minds. Those that bring you down. Eagles fly with eagles. Keep good company. 2. Eagles have an accurate Vision. They have an ability to focus on something […]
Police in Italy arrested an Italian man in the slaying of a Nigerian vendor whose brutal beating death on a busy beach town thoroughfare was filmed by onlookers without any apparent attempt to intervene physically. Read more: https://thegrio.com/2022/07/30/african-immigrant-assault-italy-video/?utm_source=social_2&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=safemobsemi&dicbo=v1-424bc46b9d29081edfb83f812a18f2ac-0065c424386a38c12437ffb0771f4ea495–
For the BRICS currency to be formed and used as international currency reserve, a couple of couplings and de-couplings need to happen in the International financial systems of BRICS countries mainly in China with regards to the Chinese Reminbi (RMB/ Yuan). Without the RMB made stronger and healthier than its […]
Imam Lamin Touray of Gunjur has taken the bull by the horns and delivered what has become one of the most truthful sermons. Imam Touray used the Edul Adha pulpit to take on Gambians who go against what Allah has decreed. Click on the video above and hear for […]