The state of the climate crisis on land and the urgent need to protect forests and shift our global food system to sustainability is expected to be laid bare in an upcoming authoritative UN report on Climate Change and Land. Ahead of the IPCC session in Geneva, Greenpeace Africa Senior […]

By Abdoulie John As part of its efforts to create a positive working environment in the media,  the Women’s Journalists Association of The Gambia (WJAG) held Thursday a half-day long seminar to review a policy document geared towards fighting sexual misconduct at workplace. The meeting was convened at Gambia Press […]

By Abdoulie John The Speaker of the National Assembly, Mariam Jack Denton, has reiterated the need for Gambia to eradicate gender disparities in all of its forms as the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) is making giant strides in the formulation of the country’s Fundamental Law. “It is obvious that gender […]

PRESS RELEASE The office of the Inspector General of Police has noted with concern information going round social media platforms about missing persons including adults and minors. Although most of these reports on social media platforms were never formally filed with the police, exhaustive investigations have however, been conducted in […]

Is it fake news or false accusation? It is quite ironic and pathetic that after attending a two day conference on media freedom, a so-called citizen political journalist will use fake news on me on Facebook. One Mr. Sanna Jarju personally attacked me and lied beyond reasonable proportion yesterday in […]

I arrived in Gambia this early morning at 2am by Air Maroc and after picking my luggage, they are marked with a chalk by customs officer for inspection and this has become the norm. Every time you come with few pieces of bags you are marked for inspection which is […]

In my high school days, there was this legendary man we all used to talk about as if we knew him. He was renowned for his intelligence and word had it that he never scored less than a hundred percent on any exam. Some say he drank some kind of […]

By Abdoulie John The Organising Committee for the National Journalism Awards (NJA) announced Friday that the much-anticipated event is scheduled to take place on July 12 , 2019 at Labranda Hotel, formerly known as Sheraton Hotel. “We are aware of the fact that today the media landscape is so rich, […]

Dear Editor, I would appreciate the opportunity of using your reputable media to air out my views on the socio-economic and infrastructural developments in the Gambia with the opening of that famous SeneGambia Bridge in Faraffenni/Yeltenda by their Excellences, presidents Adama Barrow and Macki Sall of the sister Republics of […]

As the MeToo Movement tornado has touched down in The Gambia, rape cases are spiralling out, implicating more ‘sexual predators.’ A Kaur-based Immigration officer and a top official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are now facing accusations of rape from women who broke their silence on sexual assault cases. […]

Rude and arrogant are the nicer appellations being thrown at Yankuba Touray on his refusal to testify before the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC). He pleaded immunity under the 1997 Constitution of the Republic of The Gambia (the Constitution). Given his antecedents as member of the military junta – […]