Justice Ottaba of High Court in Banjul this morning recused himself from the trial of remanded peaceful opposition pritesters. Kairo News is yet to get details of why there is a dramatic twist in a case that has put the Gambia government on high security alert. It has resulted to […]

The family of the late Morro Fofana is soliciting support from people to send his body for a fitting burial in the Gambia. Fofana, who hailed from Jarra Sankwia in Lower River Region, met his untimely death in a train accident in Rome, Italy, last week. The late Morro is […]

Thousands of worshippers last Saturday converged at Jarra Kani-kunda to partake in the village’s 19th annual Islamic gathering. Kani-kunda, a village founded by Mama Yoro Saidykhan some four centuries back, lies a stone throw from Soma town in Lower River Region. Mama Yoro (named Adam at birth), the knowledge endowed […]

By Kinteh Right here and right now is the time for us all to close ranks. Be it Njie, Jawara, Or Ngum, this latest revelations have shown that the broad section of the Gambian society is at risk of falling prey to these gangsters disguising as a gov’t. It is […]

Baba Galleh Jallow Occasionally, the excesses of a dictatorship get so outrageous that people get tongue-tied as to what else to say. How do we make sense of a consistently senseless pattern of behavior of a man who prides himself in going his own way, even if that way is […]

News just in about a heavy fight between peaceful protesting Gambians and armed security officers at Pipeline. The said fighting comes after the security officers wanted to arrest the entire crowd of people gathered in the area. Earlier, bloodthirsty security officers fired live ammunition. It was not clear whether anyone […]

British MPs Condemn the Gambia government’s excessive use of force against peaceful protestors three weeks back. They call for a full and independent investigation into the deaths in state custody. More than 20 British MPs have signed a motion condemning the Gambia government and its security forces for using excessive force […]

They say in the local parlance that droplets of rain should stop with the rain. But that is not true in the case of the Gambia’s naughty leader. With all the mountains of accusations levelled against him for flirting around with light-skinned girls, Yahya Jammeh will always leave his trails […]

By Malang Darboe I have not heard such soul-elevating sermon in years! Imam Ceesay has absolved himself of the indictment of history that: “a man dies in all that keep silent in the face of tyranny”. May the Almighty preserve him in health, strenght and and razor edged intellect to […]

The Chief Imam of Detroit Islamic Center has called on Gambians to “invest their energy, time and resources in liberating their country from tyranny.” In his weekly Mandinka sermon on Kairo Radio, Imam Momodou Ceesay said it was about time that Gambians defended themselves from President Yahya Jammeh who “is […]

Kanilai [birthplace of President Yahya Jammeh’s hamlet] is a major transit center for drug smuggling, fornication and flurry of fanfare. The hamlet is set aside for Mr. Jammeh’s planned escape route out of the country. Jammeh is a coward who should be hunted down and captured before it is too […]