President Yahya Jammeh has once again betrayed the trust and confidence Gambians have bestowed on him by focusing his energy on issues that are irrelevant to our national interest. Instead of using his countrywide tour to address the many problems, Mr. Jammeh is picking bones with Senegalese leaders as if […]
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Terrorism Has No Religion or Race: Need For Soul-searching
By Dr Alhagi Manta Drammeh Terrorism is colourless with no religion or ethnicity. Those who perpetuate terrorism are a bunch of criminals and bandits who should be condemned for their abominable and irreligious acts in the strongest unequivocal terms. I write this reflection while the horrible acts in Paris yesterday […]
Paris Terror Attacks Are “Acts Of War”
Speaking in a televised address to the nation on Saturday, French President François Hollande accused the Islamic State (IS) group of conducting a series of attacks in and around Paris late Friday that left at least 127 people dead. Speaking from the Elysée presidential palace the morning after France saw […]
No “New Page” To Open; Jammeh Must Go!
By Ousainou Mbenga You had 21 pages in 21 years to write onto and leave an admirable legacy in the history of the Gambia but you chose to write on those pages with our BLOOD. You have no more pages left to open; not in the Gambia. After 21 years […]
Nullifying The ‘Constitutional’ Demarcations
Nullifying the ‘constitutional’ demarcations: executive directives and the operational conduct of judicial officers. From whatever perspective, it is perverse, absolutely wrong on all fronts, and an assault on the principle of judicial independence as that doctrine is ordinarily understood in any country whose public life is grounded in democratic institutionalism […]
We’ll Solve Gambia’s Land Crisis
A key opposition figure expresses his party’s commitment to resolve what he calls “President Yahya Jammeh’s orchestrated land crisis.” Dembo Bojang, a former parliamentarian for Bakau, describes land crisis as one of the worst legacies of the Jammeh regime. “The UDP government will regulate land issues in The Gambia, particularly […]
‘Avoid Misuse Of Social Media’
An erudite Muslim cleric has warned against misuse of the social media. Imam Momodou Ceesay of Detroit Islamic Center would not understand why some people are in the habbit of using the social media as a vehicle to expose their private organ. “It has come to my knowledge that some […]
Separating The Wheat From The Chaff
By Gambian Outsider! Today is veterans’ day in the United States. I have the day off from work. And no, I am not a veteran. This is a consolidated article. I was thinking about writing an article to respond to Mr. Babu Soli’s commentary on Mr. Ousainou Mbenga’s article entitled […]
11/11: Another Dark Day Arrives
It’s exactly 21 years today when more than a dozen soldiers accused of a coup plot were summarily executed by The Gambia’s military junta. The ‘military with a difference’ sadly lacked the balls to tell Gambians the list of coup suspects. Only the alleged leader Lt. Basiru Barrow was named. […]
Darboe Warns APRC Old Guards: Don’t Be Misused
Source: Freedom News The Leader of Gambia’s main opposition United Democratic Party (UDP’S) Ousainou Darboe has warned the former relegated old guard APRC officials to refuse to be prostituted politically by Yahya Jammeh, as the dictator is hell bent on trying to lure the likes of Yankuba Touray into his […]
UDP Shuns ‘Centre Table Politics’
The United Democratic Party says gone are the days of what it calls “Center Table Politics.” This type of politics allows politicians to spend invaluable time on the table instead of meeting the electorate in their villages and towns – the only way to feel their plight and exchange ideas […]
Beyond Alassane Ouattara’s Victory
After a landslide victory in Côte d’Ivoire’s recent presidential election, Alassane Ouattara was sworn in for a second term on Tuesday, 3 November. The organisation and outcome of the election happened in a peaceful way, but this does not necessarily make it a democratic success story, and several key observations […]