The Unbearable Burden of Yaya Jammeh By Saul saidykhan If history is anything to go by, tomorrow, the cause of The Gambia’s ongoing needless tragedy Yaya Jammeh would be spending millions of Dollars to throw another outlandish party in celebrating his usurpation of power in our country for twenty-two […]
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UDP Wants Nigerian Judges To Leave
The deputy party leader of the opposition United Democratic Party has written to the President of Nigerian Bar Association, calling for the withdrawal of Nigeria’s legal technical assistance to the Gambia. Aji Aji Mariama Secka’s petition came in the wake of the illegal prosecution and sentencing of opposition leadership and […]
UDP Damns Dada’s Political Verdict, Urges Members To Remain Strong
We condemn the predictable and utterly unjust judgement delivered by justice Dada in Banjul today July 22 at the behest and dictation of Yahya JAMMEH the presiding tyrant of The Gambia. The verdict, the charges, the trial process, the conduct of the security services, the attorney general, and prosecutors all […]
UDP Tells Gambians ‘Expect The Worst’
Press Statement by The United Democratic Party (UDP) The Gambia on the Impending Judgement In The Political Trail Of The UDP Leader and His Senior Executives In the next few hours, Gambians and indeed the world at large would know the fate of the great leader of our party Lawyer […]
From Prezidom to Family Nation
By Baba Galleh Jallow Unlike Africa’s current nation-state system, the chiefdoms, kingdoms and empires that existed in precolonial Africa had fluid boundaries that expanded or contracted depending on the power or weakness of their central governments. Some of them had wise rulers who treated their subjects in a kind and […]
Ultra-Nationalist Mandingo Doesn’t Exist
By Ousman Jarra There is no such thing as ultra-nationalist Mandingo. However, there is a Gambian Nationalism, which means a concept of freedom and fulfillment of people in their land. As a creation of God Almighty, people have endowments they look in each other that become an affinity for building […]
Lawyer Darboe’s Untold Story
The senior wife of the Gambia’s remanded opposition leader of the United Democratic Party has told his husband’s untold story. This is a story Lawyer Ousainou Darboe has never made public. “I want Gambians and the world to know that Ousainou Darboe is an honest and upright person, a person […]
‘GDC’ Better Be Late Than Never Fellows
By Unbaised Prince I believe ‘GDC’ Political Party are at our Political Concomitant (Allied) and not to our Political Distraction Mama Kandeh (Yal-nanu Ya-Allah jappaleh) could be that guy of once glimmered in my sight of rare vision as an emerging new leader of way longed for our Gambian country […]
How People’s Power Triumphs
By Bax I think the problem of the judiciary and the predicament of judicial officials, can better be understood when we examine it within the wider context of failures of the institutions of governance and try to figure out the underlying factors for such failings, rather than just look at […]
GDF Salutes Generous Donors
PRESS RELEASE — 7/16/16 Gambia Democracy Fund – GDF, would like to thank all our donors who dug deep into their pockets to donate towards events that have been ongoing since 4/14/16. With every movement, it is the will of the people that makes it successful. During this fundraising marathon, […]
State Versus Darboe & 19 Others
NOTES OF PROCEEDINGS OF 12TH JULY 2016. Court Registrar called the case. All accused persons are present in Court. Appearances: S.H Barkun (DPP) with M. A. Abubacarr; A. A Yakubu; E.R Durgan; B. Jeng; K. Mbaye and L. Jarju for the State. No appearance is entered for the accused persons. DPP […]
A Black Imam Breaks Ground In Mecca
BRIAN DENTON FOR NEW YORK TIMES Two years ago, Sheik Adil Kalbani dreamed that he had become an imam at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Islam’s holiest city. Waking up, he dismissed the dream as a temptation to vanity. Although he is known for his fine voice, Sheik Adil is […]