The Gambia Press Union (GPU) condemns in the strongest terms the physical assault on a reporter for the online platform, Kerr Fatou, by President Adama Barrow’s photographer. Modou E. Njie of the Office of the President physically assaulted Buba Gagigo of Kerr Fatou who was covering President Barrow’s registration for […]
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Dissecting Ideology And Political Allegiance
By Suntou Touray, in Political Sabbatical The assumption that people are involved in politics mainly because of advancing a singular ambition for an individual to be Head of State, and the total and complete worldview of everyone to be a follower who doesn’t have the ability to think and decide […]
Nigeria Trip – Did Darbo & Co. Know Independent, Democracy & Republic?
The Gambia A Republican Constitution for The Gambia Abuja/Nigeria Trip – Did O/Darbo & Co. Know Independent, Democracy & Republic? The election victory of December 2016 and The Prior Agreements of The Coalition 2016 offered Gambia golden opportunities of ‘a people-centered political correction’. Mr. Ousainou Darbo freed […]
My Tribute to Alhagi Baa Trawally
By Salieu Taal Inna Lillahi Wa inna Lillahi Raji’oon “every old man that dies, it’s a library that burns” Amadou Hampate Bah Another tree has fallen. I did not know Uncle Baa Trawally very well but heard his name mentioned by my late father ( Ebou Momar Taal of blesseth […]
Nigerian Victim Calls for Justice at Gambia Truth Commission
For Immediate Release Human Rights Watch Nigerian Victim Calls for Justice at Gambia Truth Commission Ex-President Jammeh Linked to 2005 Murder of 59 West African Migrants A Nigerian man whose brother was among about 59 West African migrants killed in Gambia in 2005 by a paramilitary unit controlled by […]
Banjul American International School U.S. High School Program Expanding in 2021-22
For Immediate Press Release Banjul American International School U.S. High School Program Expanding in 2021-22 Banjul American International School (BAIS) located on Atlantic Road in Fajara, announced the expanded launch of its U.S. High School program in 2021-22. The BAIS Board of Directors voted at their Board meeting to maintain […]
7 Pieces Of Wisdom Most People Don’t Learn Until Their 40s
min re Licensed from Shutterstock // Pheelings Media Ten years ago, I met my friend for coffee on her 30th birthday and proclaimed that her 30s would be the best decade of her life. We connected again a few days ago, and I made the same promise about her 40s. For […]
Gambia: Truth Commission Hearings on 2005 Migrant Massacre
More than 50 West Africans Killed Under Ex-President Yahya Jammeh Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation, and Reparations Commission (TRRC) will hold hearings at its current session, which began on February 22, 2021, on the 2005 massacre of more than 50 West African migrants. It was the largest loss of life during the […]
Barrow, The President Who Cannot Be Trusted
Four years into the third republic: most of us have seen nothing but disappointment, dishonesty, ungratefulness, immaturity, and selfishness in our country’s leadership. We ushered in a change in 2016, with the hope of a turning point for the country and a permanent end to corruption, self-perpetuation, deceit, and waste; […]
Kenya’s black market baby trade: A mother’s choice
Last month, BBC Africa Eye exposed a thriving black-market trade in babies in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. Police arrested seven people on trafficking charges in response to the story, but what about the women on the other side of these illegal deals? What drives a mother to sell her child? […]
Of Darboe’s Distateful Personal Politics
Why the UDP leader needs to sanitise his rhetoric and leave President Barrow’s father to rest in peace By Yaya Dampha (Sweden) I see it as a civic duty to respond to the unpleasant and ungentlemanly remarks by a veteran 72-year-old politician in the person of Lawyer Ousainou […]
Loans and National Assembly Members
Once again, the issue of loans to NAMs confirms that this country is yet to create system change by updating our laws in order to modernise our institutions and practices hence strengthening the good governance of this Republic as a democracy. For example, it is Section 95 of the Constitution […]