Big Dreams Incorporated, a charitable organisation founded in Georgia, USA, in 2011, Monday donated over 300 bags, books, pens, pencils, electronic gadgets among other materials to schools in Upper Niumi District, North Bank Region. The donation made to students in Albreda Upper and Senior Secondary School, Sika Lower Basic School […]
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Challenging Dr Touray On Her Proposal For Opposition Convention
Setting Dr Touray Straight on her ‘ Proposals for Opposition Convention Submitted to GOFER’’ By Pa Modou Jack Though Dr. Touray and her surrogates, grouped both in her campaign and other supporting political parties and organizations, signed the Draft Agreement on Friday 14th October, they were quick to come out back calling […]
Africa’s Smallest State Getting Ready for Crucial Polls
Africa’s Smallest State Getting Ready for Crucial Polls A Political Report by a Ex-Refugee Part Three of Three Traumatized by the ravages of war in our respective countries and having sought heaven in Gambia of the 1980s and 1990s, we from Liberia and Sierra Leone, both the young and old, […]
Dr. Touray Condemns Gambia’s ICC Withdrawal
Dr. Isatou Touray Condemns the Gambia Government’s Withdrawal from the ICC Fellow Gambians, I have learned with disappointment that the Government of the Gambia has announced its withdrawal from the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court on 25 October 2016. After 51 years of independence and the end of […]
The Improbable Political Convention
The Improbable Political Convention The long-awaited coalition of the willing is upon us. This coming Sunday 8 political parties (NCP, NRP, PDOIS, UDP, GMC, GDPD, PPP, Independent Party) will contest in a convention for the flagbearership of the united opposition coalition against the cruelest and most brutal dictatorship in the […]
CDS Orders Soldiers “To Shoot Tribalists”
The Gambia’s puppet Army Chief of Staff is fanning seeds of discord within the military, authorizing the killing of what he called “all those who brings tribalism into Gambian politics before or after the December 1st presidential election.” Major General Ousman Badjie has been touring military installations across the country. […]
Gambia’s ICC Withdrawal: A Drastic Blow To Countless Victims Globally
Following the announcement yesterday by the Gambian Information Minister that Gambia has withdrawn from the International Criminal Court (ICC), Netsanet Belay, Amnesty International’s Research and Advocacy Director for Africa said: “The announcement is a blow to millions of victims around the world, particularly coming as it does on the heels […]
Jammeh Sends Nai Ceesay Packing
President Yahya Jammeh has sent Momodou Nai Ceesay, the Permanent Secretary of Interior Ministry. Ceesay lost his job on Tuesay, October 24th when he was handed his termination letter. It wasn’t confirmed whether Nai has been detained, although rumours have it that he was a guest of the National Intelligence […]
We Expect It; Gambia Will Quit ICC
Most people knew the Gambia would be the next African country to distance itself from the International Criminal Court in The Hague after South Africa and Burundi pulled out. While South Africa’s claim that the arrest and hand over of a sitting Sudanese President contradicted its diplomatic laws, leaders of […]
Africa’s Smallest State Getting Ready for Crucial Polls
A Political Report by a Ex-Refugee Part Two Despite weeks of efforts, inquiries and consultations, it was almost impossible to get GDC party leader, Mr. Mamma Kandeh on the phone, much less for an interview. The young leader of the newest political party appears to me to be more resident in […]
How Gambians Fall For Jammeh’s So-called Development Lies?
By Sulayman Touray I often get flabbergasted and even frustrated shaking my head in disbelief whenever I hear people say “Yaya Jammeh has brought development to the Gambia.” I cringe with pain, asking whether people peddling this so-called belaboured argument know their level of naivety or delusion. Do they forget that […]
Sweden Kicks Out Ousman Sonko
The Gambia’s exiled former Interior Minister has had his asylum application rejected by Swedish authorities and kicked him out, Kairo News has confirmed. Ousman Sonko, the Gambia’s longest serving Interior Minister accused of being in cahoot with President Yahya Jammeh to commit atrocities, was deported to Spain. This development comes […]