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Politics

Gambia’s Season That Never Was Part 1

By Mohamed Lamin Sillah March 31st 2014 saw the official coming to an end of the Gambia’s formal groundnut marketing season. It was a season without its usual characteristics fanfare, for crowded seccos, as buying points are called here, pyramids of groundnuts, dwarfing rusty screening implements that look like mammals from prehistoric […]

Politics

Bala Jahumpa Still In Hospital

Kairo News sources have confirmed that the Gambia’s Minister of Transport and Infrastructure is still admitted at Madid hospital. This contradicts an earlier report published on the pro-government Daily Observer that Bala Garba Jahumpa was released from hospital. Mr. Jahumpa was airlifted to Spain for further medical treatment last month […]

Society

Detailed History Of Niani

By Sainey Faye Suntou, this is an article on the history of Niani as narrated by the late Bana Kanuteh.The resistance of Kemeteng Camara is also a historical lesson. Ndungu-Siin, now in Senegal was known to be the old capital of Niani; and was founded by Dembele, who was the […]

Editorial

Saul Ndow's Family Utters Pain

The family of an abducted Gambian has sounded its frustration over the Gambia government’s continued silence on Saul Ndow’s whereabouts. Saul Ndow and Mahawa Cham were abducted in Senegal on April 28 last year. Below is a statement written by Saul Ndow’s children. Saul Ndow like many Gambians sees Dakar, […]