Ever since Gambians tolerated a fake revolutionary of the 1994 junta to prevail in our common national space, Gambian Muslims have been on the firing line. For good measure, Gambian Muslims have played instrumental roles in entrenching and strengthening dictator Jammeh during the 21 years of tyranny. We have blamed […]
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Rwanda War Crimes Court Wraps Up
The first international court to deliver verdicts related to genocide, and to recognise rape as a means of perpetrating genocide, will complete its mandate this month. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, ICTR, has indicted more than 90 people in connection with the 1994 genocide in the country. The United […]
International Pressure Piles On Jammeh
International pressure piles on the Gambia Government as the country’s President dispatches United Nations-funded human rights fact-finding mission to Nigeria. President Yahya Jammeh’s recent celebrated prisoner release including high political prisoners and his first meeting with the US Head of Mission in over three years was as a result of […]
Declaring Gambia An Islamic State: Jammeh’s Hypocrisy Climaxes
The President with basketball full of rhetoric surprises is once again grabbing national and international headlines. Of all his dialogue with the people tours, this year’s will be remembered for the insults, vulgar language, banning of female circumcission and threats on the opposition. No one – not even leaders in […]
‘Music World Is Waiting For Iman’
The parents of Iman Conta describe her “as a special, inspiring child who hits the music industry like a storm. Demba Conta and Zannah Hultén are proud of a young girl whose composed song tops music chat, selling more than 80 million copies. “Iman is something new that the music world […]
Kairo Exposes Jammeh’s Mixer Spy
After many years of intelligence and counterintelligence zigzag involving Kairo News’ Senior Editor and President Yahya Jammeh’s mixer spy, the time is ripe to spill the beans. The intriguing tales that follow tell one how far the Jammeh regime and some foolish Gambians go. It all started sometime in June […]
10 Solid Reasons To Oppose Jammeh
Before my residence in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and SENEGAL I served as one of the energetic, charisma, articulated young female youth mobilizers in BANJUL CENTRAL, who was part of the organizing committee for the ruling PPP in BANJUL,which was the dominant party from 1965 to 1994. Before […]
Tradition Versus Modernity
Time to end forceful approach to issues by making dialogue and intelligent reasoning the method to convince others. The response to those who ask if I support President Jammeh’s views on skin bleaching, which was made with contempt and misplace remarks. This is my brief observation. As a traditionalist and […]
How Jammeh Gets Nasty On MPs
President Yahya Jammeh’s ruling Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation Party (APRC) is loaded with puppet parliamentarians who betray their mandate. Instead of serving their constituents’ interest, these APRC deputies busy themselves with entrenching Yahya Jammeh in power. For them serving Babil Mansa’s interest is a solemn national duty, and is therefore […]
President Jammeh’s Insults Hurt
If there is one thing that Lawyer Ousainou Darboe can control and manage right now it will be the uncontrollable venom that comes out of President Yahya Jammeh’s mouth. The man rarely winds up talks these days without unloading insults on mostly the wrong targets as if he is grappling […]
The ICC’s McDonaldization of Justice
Ocampo And Bensouda Are Clowns It is a sad state of affairs when the International Criminal Court and its behaviour since it was established in 2002 can be described as the “McDonaldization” of justice. It is however a very apt analogy. “McDonaldization” is defined by American sociologist George Ritzer as […]
Re: Independence Revisited
By Dodou Jawneh I have earlier entertained the notion that had Jawara left power and handed it over to someone else the coup might not have taken place. This view has changed somewhat over the years, and I am now coming to terms more and more that subversive elements/Africa’s military […]