A retired Senegalese Colonel describes President Yahya Jammeh as “the sore teeth of Senegal that must be extracted.” Like many Senegalese and Gambians, Colonel Malick Cissé could not adjust with President Jammeh’s insult on past and present Senegalese leaders. Gambian leader’s misguided statement on Presidents Abdou Diouf, Abdoulaye Wade and […]
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Gambia Press Union Cries Foul
By Abdoulie John The Gambia Press Union has used the 57th ordinary session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) as a platform to draw the attention of country representatives and activists to the ongoing attacks on journalists. “The Gambia Press Union (GPU) is deeply concerned by […]
Jammeh On The Loose Again
President Yahya Jammeh has once again betrayed the trust and confidence Gambians have bestowed on him by focusing his energy on issues that are irrelevant to our national interest. Instead of using his countrywide tour to address the many problems, Mr. Jammeh is picking bones with Senegalese leaders as if […]
Darboe Tells Imams To Stand Tall
Gambian opposition leader wants Muslim clerics to stand tall or firm for their mistreated colleagues. Lawyer Ousainou Darboe says Imams have to break the culture of silence, which has not worked. Darboe’s comments come at a time when The Gambia government is illegally holding two Muslim clerics at a regional […]
Senegal Arrest Terror Suspects
By Sanna Camara, in Dakar Senegalese authorities have made a number of arrests as part of a sweeping offensive against people suspected to have links with the extremist Boko Haram sect, which has for years wreaked havoc in Nigeria and its northern neighbours. A number of suspects were picked up […]
Terrorism Has No Religion or Race: Need For Soul-searching
By Dr Alhagi Manta Drammeh Terrorism is colourless with no religion or ethnicity. Those who perpetuate terrorism are a bunch of criminals and bandits who should be condemned for their abominable and irreligious acts in the strongest unequivocal terms. I write this reflection while the horrible acts in Paris yesterday […]
Paris Terror Attacks Are “Acts Of War”
Speaking in a televised address to the nation on Saturday, French President François Hollande accused the Islamic State (IS) group of conducting a series of attacks in and around Paris late Friday that left at least 127 people dead. Speaking from the Elysée presidential palace the morning after France saw […]
No “New Page” To Open; Jammeh Must Go!
By Ousainou Mbenga You had 21 pages in 21 years to write onto and leave an admirable legacy in the history of the Gambia but you chose to write on those pages with our BLOOD. You have no more pages left to open; not in the Gambia. After 21 years […]
Nullifying The ‘Constitutional’ Demarcations
Nullifying the ‘constitutional’ demarcations: executive directives and the operational conduct of judicial officers. From whatever perspective, it is perverse, absolutely wrong on all fronts, and an assault on the principle of judicial independence as that doctrine is ordinarily understood in any country whose public life is grounded in democratic institutionalism […]
Africa ‘Losing €60 Billions A Year In Tax Evasion’
Senegalese President Macky Sall called Thursday for multinationals to pay their fair share of taxes following a summit with EU leaders aimed at curbing the poverty fuelling mass migration to Europe. Sall also said Africans should receive a a fair price for their natural resources when he addressed a press […]
We’ll Solve Gambia’s Land Crisis
A key opposition figure expresses his party’s commitment to resolve what he calls “President Yahya Jammeh’s orchestrated land crisis.” Dembo Bojang, a former parliamentarian for Bakau, describes land crisis as one of the worst legacies of the Jammeh regime. “The UDP government will regulate land issues in The Gambia, particularly […]
‘Avoid Misuse Of Social Media’
An erudite Muslim cleric has warned against misuse of the social media. Imam Momodou Ceesay of Detroit Islamic Center would not understand why some people are in the habbit of using the social media as a vehicle to expose their private organ. “It has come to my knowledge that some […]