By KM Every dictator has enablers. In my opinion, the following enablers, and many others unlisted here, allow the dictator to remain powerful: Divided Opposition Groups Opposition movements that lack a common purpose to stand up together as one voice against any form of injustice are pointless and useless. They actually […]
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How Jammeh’s Destruction Of Gambian Economy Was Masqueraded To Gambians And The IMF As The Effects Of Ebola Outbreak – Part I
By Janko Camara I am not an admirer of the IMF as far as their interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa are concerned. This is because generally, they have not been doing a good job in diagnosing the ills of our economies and the one-cap-fits-all panaceas usually provided are even more […]
The Only Acceptable Outcome: Acquittal Of The Caliph General And The Alkalo
A traumatic ten months later, the end of a journey that should never have commenced. But having started, it should not have lasted even a month. And how admirably His Worship, Magistrate Ebrima Jaiteh (His Worship Jaiteh) ended the shame that engulfed the Brikama Magistrates’ Court in the case of […]
Letter to Yahya Jammeh, No. 1
By Foday Samateh This regards your visit to Jali and related matters. For starters, I’ve long since decided never to address you by the office you occupy. And all Gambians should renounce glorifying the abomination of calling you president. You don’t have the dignity or the character for such […]
Perspectives/ African Liberation Day
By Prof. Mammo Muchie Africa Day for Pan-African Education African Liberation Day falls on 25 May every year. But how many Africans of today know that, and more so, what it is? With the current African narrative changing the global view of the continent, the time to use African Liberation […]
For The Gambia Our Homeland!
By Lamin Saddam Sanyang, The Netherlands For The Gambia Our Homeland is the national anthem of The Gambia, written by Virginia Julia Howe and composed by Jeremy Frederic Howe (based on the traditional Mandinka song Foday Kaba Dumbuya). It was adopted after an international competition to produce an anthem (and […]
IMF: Fixing Exchange Rates Will Make Matters Worse For Economy
The Resident Representative of the International Monetary Fund has said that The Gambia government’s decision to fix the exchange rate of the country’s depreciating currency, the dalasi, against major currencies of the world will make matters worse for the economy. Gaston Mpatswe, who was yesterday briefing journalists barely a month […]
Gambia’s Offer Baffles Stranded Migrants
Boat people who have come ashore in Southeast Asia after harrowing journeys are delighted that Indonesia and Malaysia will give them temporary shelter — although some were baffled by an offer of sanctuary in a tiny African nation they had never heard of. Nearly 3,000 Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants have […]
SIC Should Follow Sunnah In Moon Sighting
By Malamin Barrow Muslims the world over will be looking for the appearance of the new moon of Ramadan on the 16th and 17th of June 2015. This century’s old practice is a requirement based on the Quran and Hadith. Rather strangely, the Gambia’s supreme Islamic council and the Gambian […]
Fass Njaga: Jammeh’s Capitulation Queried Amid Unjustified Euphoria
By Momodou Kabba Fatty The recent standoff between UDP militants and Jammeh’s security forces, and the eventual backing down of those forces has raised hopes that the beginning of the end of Jammeh is imminent, and the fear factor he depends on is beginning to crumble. The massive public support […]
NIA And Hissene Habre’s DDS
Gambian dictator President Jammeh rules by fear. The feared NIA and Military intelligence carry out all forms of torture they have learnt from rogue security agents of the Chadian military police, DDS. A culture of tortures, killings, and executions have been used to scare the masses to subjugation. One woman’s […]
Jammeh Embarrasses Gambia At ECOWAS; Bids To Be Life President
When news leaked that ECOWAS were to table a proposal at their next sitting to explore the possibility of instituting presidential term limits for member states, I thought it was sarcasm. I thought it was an expensive prank until I saw it on the regional body’s site. Then I thought […]