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 […]
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US Court Convicts Gambia Attackers
Four Americans of Gambian origin have been sentenced by a Minnesota judge for their involvement in the failed December 30th 2014 coup in the Gambia. Texas real estate developer Cherno Njie and three others were convicted and sentenced for violating the United States Neutrality Act. The act was last used […]
Gambia Crackdown Sparks Call To Action
By Abdoulie John The Gambia’s crackdown on peaceful protesters has been condemned left and right, with some opposition party leaders decrying the use of ‘excessive force’ against United Democratic Party (UDP) supporters protesting against court decision to deny their leader Ousainou Darboe and his co-accused persons bail. “The crackdown on protesters is not […]
Jammeh Tearing Gambian Families Apart
The Gambia’s embattled leader is showing signs of desperation, as evidenced in his government’s handling of weeks of political crisis. The crisis would have been carefully managed had the government listened to opposition voices. But you don’t expect anyone who is above 50 years to change his bad manners overnight. […]
Sam Sarr Will Commit Suicide Before He ‘Fucking Fires At Protesters’ For Jammeh
For the country’s deputy ambassador at the United Nations to want to ‘FUCKING FIRE AT THE PROTESTERS IF I WERE IN CHARGE’ shows how hateful Sam Sarr is, and the type of a lowlife Jammeh recruits to work for him. The people he so wanted to slaughter are our parents, […]
ECOWAS dismisses Jammeh’s Complaint
Yaya Jammeh’s compliant to ECOWAS on the Gambia – Senegal border closure that is now on its 12th week has been dismissed outright because Gambia’s non-observance of existing conventions, protocols and bi-lateral agreements. It turns out that The Gambia had not completed the ratification process of the regional body’s Convention […]
Jammeh’s Way
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 […]
Dialogue With The Agent Of The devil: The Opposition’s Strange Strategy
By Dodou Jawneh The disappointment is written all over our faces when the opposition parties met with the officials of the Gambia’s draconian regime to discuss and sign a memorandum of understanding, otherwise refer to as the interparty talks. In the real world, this is commendable move as dialogue leads […]
Dear Yahya Jammeh
Dear Yahya Jammeh, We understand that you are unhappy with your Inspector General of Police, Yankuba Sonko, because of the unexpectedly large number of protesters, the majority of whom are women. You wanted the women stopped at the Denton Bridge. What you fail to understand is that the climate of […]
UDP Lacks Faith In Gambian Courts
The deputy president of Gambia’s main opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) is appealing to the international community for help in seeking the release of party leader Ousaniou Darboe. Darboe and 38 other opposition members were arrested last month and charged with conspiracy to commit a felony. They had previously been […]
Analysis Of Gambia’s Political Crisis
This article does not provide answers to our current political crisis but rather seeks to provide brief analysis of some of the issues we are facing. My doors are however open to further analysis and way forward. SCENARIO ONE Lawyer Ousainou Darboe and co were last Thursday denied bail even […]
Pharaoh And The Flatterer Magicians
When the architects of the Gulag of the New Islamic Republic of The Gambia arrogantly, and impudently railroad the state into a political and moral cul-de-sac or dead-end locally and internationally on the question of maladministration, perversion and sadistic practices, there is an aged old rhetorical device that is often […]