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British MPs Join Gambia’s Election Crisis

Members of the British Parliament have added their voice to the call for the Gambia’s outgoing President Yahya Jammeh to respect the democratic will of the Gambian people and hand over power to President-elect Adama Barrow. Through a Parliamentary Motion in the House of Commons, deputies also congratulate and applaud […]

Politics

JAMMEH’S SOOTHSAYER ENDS…

Inside Statehouse on Election Night and Beyond By Gambiano FIRST MESSENGER: Janjangburreh speakest with sanity, as doth their vote. And Banjul Central doth stay its way to our sway. Great Soothsayer arrives soon! SECOND MESSENGER: I wouldst Brikama swell with green and tilt to our vantage, while Serrekunda stirred by the […]

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No Retreat, No Surrender

By Baba Galleh Jallow We the people of The Gambia are determined not to allow Yahya Jammeh to strangle our beautiful new Gambian renaissance. For 22 years, Yahya Jammeh has treated The Gambia as if it was his personal property and Gambians as if they were nothing but his personal […]

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‘Ambassador Faye Is A Patriot’

The Imam of Detroit Islamic Center has called on Gambians to honour and celebrate all those who demonstrate their love and interest for their country that found itself embroiled in political crisis. “Our home country, the Gambia, is facing extra-ordinary situation, which requires extra-ordinary solution,” Imam Momodou Ceesay told Kairo […]

Society

Jammeh Charge-Sheet And Possible Pardon

“Sir Dawda Jawara lives peacefully in Gambia and so can Jammeh,” says His Excellency President-Elect Barrow. Presidential Pardon/Amnesty The question is whether President-Elect Barrow is prepared to offer Out-going President Yahya Jammeh a total and absolute Presidential Pardon? I think the need for a “Presidential Pardon” is why Jammeh went […]

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ECOWAS Tells Jammeh To Quit Or Else..

Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Saturday held an Emergency Summit on the Gambia’s political impasse in the Nigerian capital Abuja. In a final communiqué, heads of state warned the West African country’s defeated President Yahya Jammeh to accept the election results otherwise the regional […]

Politics

My President, The Final Hour Is Here

My Brother President Yaya Jammeh, The Final Hour is Here! My brother president, I say hello to you. I am addressing you at this point in time because I know life is hard for you. You are literally seeing your world crumbling in front of you, and there is nothing […]

Politics

Don’t Let Fake News Fake You Out!

By Alagie Yorro Jallow Fake news is so real and so pervasive that it already rings disturbingly familiar. It’s the production and dissemination of false information meant to influence the direction of our Gambian life by deluding anyone unsuspecting enough to swallow it. To our thinking, it’s a matter of […]