The Gambia’s main opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) today enters the crucial leg of a country-wide tour with what has become a mega entry in the Greater Banjul Area. The tour, the first since the jailing of the party’s leadership and nomination of its presidential candidate Adama Barrow, has provided […]
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Yahya Jammeh Personally Tortures Imam Ba-kawsu, Jesus
We now concur with a former State House aide that President Yahya Jammeh is not only heartless but a school that one can never finish learning. “The more we live, the more we learn about this mysterious creature,” said the aide who deserted after having studied and understood Yahya Jammeh. […]
Runaway Renegades, Former Enablers Or Deserters
Beware That Not All That Glitter Is Gold “The cancer of betrayal, which we must uproot from Africa..” Culled and Adapted from Aziz Salmone Fall The coup that toppled Nkrumah is a tortuous conspiracy with deep roots. In 1969, the Portuguese seemingly freed Aristides Barbosa and Momo Touré, two former captured […]
Donald Trump Just Lost The Election
By John Avlon Mark down the date: October 7, 2016, is when Donald Trump lost the presidency. I’m usually reluctant to play the pundit-prediction game but Independent and Republican women aren’t going to bounce back from this one. Not when the GOP nominee is caught on tape talking about hitting […]
Gambians React To The Fate Of 2,000 Would-be Deportees
By Abdoulie John United States decision to impose a visa ban on Gambian officials after they refuse to cooperate on the case of 2,000 would-be deportees has sparked a series of reactions in and outside the country. Since the news broke out, it has left many people wondering why Gambian […]
Will Kombo Stand Tall
The Market For Buying Honour and Dignity Kairo News is reliably informed that APRC WOMEN COUNCILLOR Binta Camara is leading a bribing delegation. Chiefs and Alkalos have been handed hundreds of thousands of Dalasis to bribe people and buy votes ahead of the December 1 Gambian presidential elections. Many Chiefs […]
Gambia Faces Litmus Test
By Fatou Manneh United Kingdom Like other democracies in the world, the Gambia too is bracing itself for another presidential election in December 2016. Ironically, the country is at a crossroad. Presently, there are lots of controversies and contradictions about who should lead the people of this Great Nation to […]
Spit The Tobacco And Tell Us How Jammeh’s Fraud Works
Former Lt. Col. Lamin Gano has yet to say anything damning about Dictator Jammeh’s evil system! As the Mandinkas say, taba bon eeye tonya fo [tell plain truth and stop beating about the bush]. ‘If Jammeh does not fear elections, them he will not buy votes nor register foreigners. People […]
Accidental Enablers: Gambian Civil Servants And Security Officers
Your position is not a political appointment… Civil servants and security officers are not neither employed nor paid by the APRC. They work for Gambians in general. Civil servants need to educate their family members and tell them the plain truth. Many civil servants don’t vote for the APRC but […]
Travesty (Part 1)
It discussed no profound questions, enunciated no sublime principles. For a matter so central to fundamental questions around the public life of a country, a case so factually embedded in the crucial Chapter IV rights guaranteed by the 1997 Constitution of the Republic of The Gambia (the Constitution), the Judgment […]
African Women On The Frontline Of Liberation Struggle
By Sainey Faye Throughout our history, countless unsung African women have been on the frontline of our people’s struggle. African women have fought, and continue to fight against triple exploitation –namely, racialism, class exploitation, and gender oppression. National oppression affects all African people worldwide, and class exploitation, and gender […]
“ABUSE OF DISCRETION AT THE HIGH COURT IN BANJUL!”
By Gambian Outsider! On September 1st 2016, vacation judge, Orgar Edward Eneji of the High Court in Banjul denied Mrs. Sira Wally Ndow-Njai her second bail application. Mrs. Ndow-Njai’s lawyer is Ida Drammeh. Last week, Mrs. Ndow-Njai’s third bail application was dismissed. I neither know Mrs. Ndow-Njai nor lawyer Ida […]