By Suntou Touray Confirmed Reports Indicate that at least five Gambian couples killed each other in the West in recent times. Three cases were reported in the United Kingdom, one in Sweden and one in the United States. The figure could be higher if depression and heart attack related deaths […]
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Kairo News Hit A Million
We’re Grateful To You All It is time for us to thank our highly committed community of readers and listeners who made a million hits a reality last Sunday. You are simply awesome bunch of esteemed patriots. We’re grateful to you all! When Kairo News and Radio came into existence […]
Africa: The Search For Identity
The great African writer, Ngugi wa Thiong’o in his book, Decolonising the Mind, asserts the importance of language, the mother tongue, in a statement which I think is still valid today. And I quote: “How did we, as African writers, come to be so feeble towards the claims of our […]
‘Islam Is Not A Play Card’
Islam is a serious religion with clear teachings and principles set for Muslims to follow, which is why people must not use the religion as their play card. “Language never makes anybody a good Muslim.” The above statement is contained in the Eid-ul-Adha sermon of Detroit Imam. “The world is […]
Jammeh Recycles Retired General
Gambian leader has reinstated a retired Brigadier General of the Gambian National Army. Brigadier General Alhagie Martin, otherwise known as Ochucks or Lagos, was a former deputy Ambassador to Taiwan who headed the State Guards unit until his removal, retirement and redeployment to the Civil Service two years ago. Martin […]
An Open Letter on Momodou Sabally’s Detention
Momodou Sabally Honoured You, Mrs. Fatou Bensouda An Open Letter on Momodou Sabally’s Detention From Dida Jallow-Halake in London, UK. Dear Chief ICC Prosecutor, I write to bring to your attention the matter of Gambia’s ex-Secretary General and Minister of Presidential Affairs, Momodou Sabally, because this young man is a […]
I'll Die Of Shame If Sam Sarr Is …
By Papa Kumba Loum Sontou I like the advice you gave to Imam Baba Leigh. He should gnore the ranting and utterances of this opportunist fool. I certainly cannot find the right words to begin to describe Sasudeen Sarr. I have been following his recent utterances of late on freedom […]
US Registers First Ebola Death
Liberian Citizen Lost The Fight The first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States died early Wednesday, officials with Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital announced. “It is with profound sadness and heartfelt disappointment that we must inform you of the death of Thomas Eric Duncan this morning at 7:51 a.m.,” the […]
Vision 2020 Is Biggest Time Stealing Hoax of President Jammeh
It is unrealistic, undocumented, and certainly unfeasible Sarjo Bayang insists the president is deceiving Gambians Gambian President Yaya is fast running out of tricks. He promised transforming a nation relying on peanuts as cash crop into world class economy of superpower ranking. This fantasised wild dream of making the impossible […]
Col. Sarr: The Devil Who Knows Too Much
By Suntou Touray “If you are willing and ready to be an effective human campaigner, then cut out the number of people you chat with freely. Whatever we utter – in camera or in public – can be used against us.” Suntou What Does Samsudeen Sarr know? Did anyone remember […]
Visa 2 Da Kingdom Denied
Preface by Dida Jallow-Halake: Words of comfort from a peeved very educated Kenyan (says he has never been to Da Kingdom, so this essay shows how good our Kenyan anglicised education is because a full 90% of Her Majesty’s subjects in today’s United Kingdom cannot write in the English language […]
Will It Be The Bullet Or The Ballot To The Third Republic?
As we get closer and closer towards the next presidential elections of 2016, it is getting ever clearer that left to our opposition politicians alone, the prospect of an electoral alliance for coalition building is now bleak than years ago. Then division within the Gambian political opposition was bipolar but […]