The Gambia’s Interior Minister is once again publicly clearing his name. In a message, Mai Ahmad Fatty writes that he does not authorise the arrest of any lawyer of the State Intelligence Service or any other person of interest to law enforcement. Due to public expressions of concerns communicated to […]
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Kanilai Crisis: Halifa Faults ECOWAS
The National Assembly Member for Serekunda has faulted negotiators from the ECOWAS, African Union and the United Nations for their failure “to proceed to sign a document with President Barrow to get him to also Commit himself to the declaration of intent of the negotiators.” At a press conference on Saturday, […]
The Attitude To Human Rights Within The
A change of government does not mean there is no law in The Gambia. Disgraceful, yes, but the above statement is the new mantra of the lawless security officer, a catch phrase that embodies the cultural hostility to human rights within large sectors of the security forces in our new […]
Interior Minister Debunks Curfew Hoax
The Gambia’s Interior Minister has responded to wisely circulated rumours milling in the country and in the diaspora that a curfew has since been imposed in Kanilai where irate supporters of former President Yahya Jammeh had violent confrontation with regional peacekeeping troops. The confrontation led to the death of one […]
Bubacarr Badjie of NIA Must Be Released
The National Intelligence Agency (NIA) has bigger issues to address than continue the inconsequential pretence of calling itself the State Intelligence Service. As a security agency, the NIA is synonymous with utter lawlessness in the manner it conducted itself in the past. It was even performing the function of debt […]
Revisiting Jammeh’s Verbatim Tribal Slur
Transcript of Yahya Jammeh’s speech about Mandinka (Mandinka-English translation notwithstanding, we tried very hard to write as spoken.) Paragraphs are marked by time into the speech. 0:0 – Since 1994, all the trouble makers or those organizing demonstrations are Mandinka. Any Mandinka who follows their foot-step, Bilahi Walahi Talahi, I […]
Gambia National Army May Not Be Loyal – Watch Out President Adama Barrow
By Emmanuel Joof (Paps) The security of the country needs to be addressed seriously especially given the recent incidents in the Fonis. Unfortunately, we have an army that has been “tribalized” over a period of 22 years and comprising of MFDC rebels from Jammeh’s tribe (fighting for independence from Senegal) […]
National Assembly Should Enact Public Officers’ Declaration of Assets
National Assembly should enact Public Officers’ Declaration of Assets, Liabilities and Business Interests, and the Anti-Corruption Commission law. Alagi Yorro Jallow The Gambia needs a new caliber of leadership at all levels. What the nation needs is competent and honest politicians, those who operate with integrity and who are not simply […]
More Than 60% Of NIAs ‘Illiterate’
By Sanna Camara and Lamin Jahateh More than 60 per cent of the personnel of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) “are functionally illiterate” who can neither read nor understand English language, according to a leaked petition from the agency. The petition, written by Bubacarr A.M.O Badjie, legal adviser of the […]
Foni Must Not Be Marginalised
Well, if the demo was planned and publicised on social media, then serious questions about competence need to be asked. Many will agree that the demonstrators have not given any legitimate reasons for taking to the streets, if as reported, their grievance was against the stationing of ECOMIG troops in […]
Arguable Causes of the Kanilai Protest
By Captain Ebrima Cambi A simple security analysis coupled with a bit of impeccable intelligence from the period of the political impasse to the day of the protest, shows that the protest was not intent on getting rid of the soldiers as the primary motive but a catalyst to an […]
Binta Goudiaby, Queen of the Kujamat (Kamika Jontu No Raiye)!
By Saul Saidykhan We live in scary times. When I was a teenager, having a plastic Photo Album was the It thing. When you visit someone, they invite you to rifle through their photos. Now we have Facebook to show the entire world our photos almost instantaneously. Some even share […]