A Catch 22 Situation! December 2016 marked that fateful month in which the people of the Gambia, inspired by a Coalition for change, mustered that ultimate courage, temerity or the audacity to make their final and resolute stand against dictatorship. The resultant triumph coupled with the shrewd, decisive and timely […]

Dear Editor, Please allow me space to weigh in on the unauthorised so-called demonstration #occupywestfied which was scheduled for last Saturday. First and foremost I want to ask the organisers why they want occupywestfield now. The choice of words, place and time is very central in this case because the […]

HURIDAC Press Release: 2/11/17 HURIDAC’s Chair Appointed as an Advisor in The Gambia The Gambian government has appointed Ndey Tapha Sosseh as an Advisor to Ministry of Information and Communication Infrastructure. Ndey Tapha Sosseh serves as the Co-Chair of the Leadership Council of Human Rights Advancement, Development and Advocacy Centre […]

The Spokesman of the ECOWAS Mission in the Gambia (ECOMIG) has responded to an incident involving a journalists and ECOMIG on Wednesday at Kololi. Read below Commander Andy La-Anyane’s full response to the incident. ECOMIG has read an account of an incident that happened at the seat of the President […]

By Sainey Faye On this date OCTOBER 20, 1952 Mau Mau of Kenya declared WAR!!! The Mau Mau uprising, call it nationwide rebellion; began in Kenya.This uprising set in motion the fire,fury, and carnage that was to follow.Britain as colonial master would never be the same again, at least not […]

By Natta Mass When you know a person, you can be a good judge of his or her character through your interactions and observations from up close. If a person is a stranger to you, his utterances and actions determine how you perceive him or her. Tothose who know Ousainou […]

The Nigeria’s readiness to help the Gambia recover the national wealth stolen by ousted President Yahya Jammeh is yet another manifestation of Africa’s giant nation’s commitment to stand by a country that is struggling to undo the wrongs of 22 years of dictatorship. Mr. Jammeh, whose military junta forcibly seized […]

Until the Janneh Commission issued a restraint order against him, gullible Gambians have been spreading news that Gambian lawyer-turned-business mogul Amadou Samba, a business associate of former President Yahya Jammeh, would be spared from appearing before the commission probing into Jammeh’s financial dealings. As indicated in the restraining order (full […]

The fundamental question one needs to ask is: what are the consequences of corruption or corruption related crimes? All these millions stolen by these unscrupulous Gambians have some devastating effects on the social structures of the Gambia. The Gambia is one of the poorest countries in the world, where everyday […]

By Abdoulie John The Gambia Armed Forces (GAF) has began what appears to be the undoing of the rocky relationship it had with the civilian population during 22 years of the Jammeh dictatorship. The GAF leadership knows the cure to the bad blood is for military to remain not only […]

We seem to be glued to our electronics. Where would we be without our computers and cell phones? Everywhere we look people are looking down at their phones. And many wonder why our kids are always wanting to be on our (or their own) phones, or on their tablets. Through […]

Civil servants who are implicated in the report of the Janneh Commission of Inquiry should be dismissed and sent to prison for their role in condoning, collaborating or conniving with former President Yahya Jammeh to commit economic crimes. These people are The Gambia’s worst ever citizens. When Jammeh was in […]