PRESS RELEASE Gambia Democracy Fund – GDF, would like to inform the public that on Monday, 6/13/16, the organization disbursed $1,000 to each of the families of those sentenced in Minnesota during the week of May 10th, 2016 (totaling $4,000.00). This amount is a direct donation from GDF. As you […]
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Where Is The Oblivious Bun Sanneh?
All went so quiet about Ebrima Bun Sanneh since his unceremonious exit from the Gambia Police Force and subsequently as the former director of the National Drug Enforcement Agency. Bun Sanneh as was commonly called used to live in Tallinding where he was so arrogant to us the neigbours and […]
NIA Confirms Solo Sandeng’s Death But..
It took the Gambia government two months to confirm the death in custody of Ebrima Solo Sandeng. The opposition activist was tortured to death after his arrest on April 14th. His only crime– if there is any — is to lead a peaceful demonstration calling for electoral reforms. Sandeng, a […]
April 14 Protesters Granted Bail
Thirteen of the 25 April 14th remanded protesters were unconditionally bailed by the police, Kairo News confirmed. Eleven others who were moved to Mansakonko for trial still remain remanded at Mile II Central Prisons. The bailed men are: Baboucar Gitteh, Baba Ceesay, Ebrima Janko Ceesay, Lamin Camara, Alhagie Jammeh, Alhagie […]
UDP Wants ICC To Probe Gambia Govt’s Crimes Against Humanity
THE DIASPORA ORGANISATION OF THE UNITED DEMOCRATIC PARTY DEMAND ICC INVESTIGATION INTO CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY IN THE GAMBIA The UDP Diaspora organization has formally filed a Petition with Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague to initiate and expedite preliminary investigation into the crimes against humanity committed […]
How Yahya Jammeh Becomes An Embodiment Of Imbecility And Cowardice
By Amadou Dibba, UK Much has been made and written about the recent tirade by Yahya Jammeh against the Mandinka tribe, whom he believes always constitute the overwhelming part of efforts to discredit, or worse still cause instability in, his government. While such a theme is by no means new […]
Illegality Bedevils Gambia As Protesters Case Heard Outside Jurisdiction
The unexplained transfer of the trail of April 14th protesters to Mansankonko is yet another clear manifestation of the Gambia government’s disregard for the rule of law. There is no justification of transferring the case to a jurisdiction different from where the alleged crime takes place. Fatoumata Jawara and her […]
Gambia’s Sanxaanu Kaggoro Film Kaffo joins FEPACI
Prominent Gambian film scholar and director, Prince Bubacarr Aminata Sankanu has recorded another milestone in his patriotic mission of securing The Gambia’s place on the global film map. This development follows the admission of his high-impact Sanxaanu Kaggoro Film Kaffo (SANXAAFI) into the membership of the Federation of Pan African […]
GPU Presents 2015 Journalism Awards
Virtues and Benefits of Fasting
“O you who have believed, decreed upon you is fasting as it was decreed upon those before you that you may become righteous (tattaqun)” (Al-Baqarah, 2:181). Righteousness (taqwa) or God consciousness is the main theme of fasting and indeed chapter of the Qur’an, the longest chapter of the Qur’an. At […]
State Moves Remanded Opposition Protesters To Unknown Location
The United Democratic Party (UDP) has confirmed from multiple sources that an unspecified number of remand political prisoners who were arrested on April 14 2016 with Solo Sandeng have been removed from their prison cells and being transported to an unknown destination. While it is still not clear why the abductees […]
Of Jammeh’s Immoral Nigerian Judges
By Unbiased Prince Immoral Nigerian Judges employed by Yaya Jammeh to deface Probity, are Rudiments of Satanic Cataclysm on the Gambian Judiciary System and, on People of badly needing Statutory Ratification and that is without doubt!!! It’s now beyond the unfolding reality but well gone through the gable of not […]