Once again sister Jainaba Bah, I am sorry for what you and your children are going through. It has been a difficult period of your life. But this is all because of your husband’s unflinching support for the tyranical regime. Isn’t it an irony for Sarjo Jallow to be victimised […]

By Jim Wormington, Human Rights Watch and Sabrina Mahtani, Amnesty International Opposition Activists Jailed Ahead of Presidential Election “We want you to help us.” This was the message a Gambian human rights activist delivered to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights at a Gambia-focused panel discussion in Banjul, […]

Letter to M. Sajo Jallow (in custody)”Be sure we shall test you with something of fear and hunger, some loss of wealth or lives or the fruits (of your toil), but give glad tidings to those who are patient in adversity” Qur’an: Surah Al Baqarah (The Cow), Chapter 2, Verse 155 […]

Dr. Isatou Touray Condemns the Gambia Government’s Withdrawal from the ICC Fellow Gambians, I have learned with disappointment that the Government of the Gambia has announced its withdrawal from the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court on 25 October 2016. After 51 years of independence and the end of […]

 The Improbable Political Convention The long-awaited coalition of the willing is upon us. This coming Sunday 8 political parties (NCP, NRP, PDOIS, UDP, GMC, GDPD, PPP, Independent Party) will contest in a convention for the flagbearership of the united opposition coalition against the cruelest and most brutal dictatorship in the […]

By Sulayman Touray I often get flabbergasted and even frustrated shaking my head in disbelief whenever I hear people say “Yaya Jammeh has brought development to the  Gambia.” I cringe with pain, asking whether people peddling this so-called belaboured argument know their level of naivety or delusion. Do they forget that […]

The beginning of the end of Dictator Jammeh’s brutal regime Election 2016 must see Jammeh go… Mr Editor, please allow me space in your newspaper once again to add my voice and contribute to the opinions of many Gambians for the upcoming December election in the Gambia. It has been […]

                        A Political Report by an Ex-Refugee Part One It was early afternoon on Friday 2nd September. It was hot and humid and the roads were muddy, wavy and full of pot holes so you thought you had walked a kilometer when you had done probably only two or three hundred meters. […]

Jainaba Bah Jallow, alias Lamin Sanyang alias Pa/”Mbaa” Njaga, with all her other cloaks of guilt appears to be on a rampage. Her list of occult and duplicitous identities could become the stuff of legend. Those who truly believe in the justness of their cause, the truth of their claims […]

The exiled Caliph General of Wasadung Sheriff Caliphate has declared that President Yahya Jammeh’s presidency has come to an end. “Yahya Jammeh has ceased to be the President of the Gambia,” Sheriff Dino Hydara said in a circulated audio. Hydara was himself a victim of Yahya Jammeh’s tyranny, forcing him […]

Gambian leader’s iron-fist rule as well as his failure to create anything meaningful for the youths have left majority of the country’s able-bodied youths to search for their dreams abroad. The backway, which has over and over proven to be a perilous journey of no return for many people, becomes […]

Gambians home and abroad have joined the family and band of Kora King Jaliba Kuyateh to mourn the death of Babadinding Kuyateh. The younger brother of Jaliba died in New York onOctober 1st while on tour with Jaliba & the Kumareh Band. His death came after that of the band’s […]