A number of blacklisted Gambian pardoned Mile 2 prisoners have been denied passports, Kairo News investigation has proven. President Yahya Jammeh in July granted amnesty to over 200 convicted drug dealers, treason convicts and others. The Gambia government is yet to make the list of pardoned prisoners public, raising more […]
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Navigating The Obstacles
By Baba Galleh Jallow Moments after I shared my article “Looking Beyond the Power-Grab” on one of the Gambian community list serves, a critic hit the reply button and called it “cowardly academic crap.” After contemplating his “cowardly academic crap” for a while, I hit the reply button and sent […]
Dr Deaths: Is Dr Tamsir Mbowe Guilty?
History is full of medically trained Doctors who killed in helping ruthless tyrants stay in power or achieve their goals. In apartheid South Africa, doctors are said to play a major part in secret killings. However, Kairo News has recently been alerted at the daring bravado of a conventional medical […]
The Price Of Duty: An Interesting Book
By Ebou Gaye Synopsis The above-named book, The Price of Duty, is a memoir authored by Ebrima Ismaila Chongan. The book is informative, educative, enlightening and inspiring, as it is thrilling, engrossing, gripping and captivating. Among the contents of the book are photographs serving as illustration. These include a photo […]
Guinean Leader Wins Election
Guinea’s President Alpha Conde has won a second term, the country’s election commission has announced, six days after polling ended. Mr Conde, 77, won in the first round with about 58% of votes cast. Main opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo, who has denounced the vote as fraudulent, won 31%. He […]
Gambians Should Learn Te Be Simple, Focus And Tolerant
By Deyda Haidara THE WAY FORWARD IN MY OPINION Whenever I hear that diaspora Gambian organizations should fuse into one umbrella organization, I say Oh my GOD here we go again for another messy road to the delight of Yaya Jammeh and his APRC [Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction]. […]
Activist Champions Diaspora Unity
By Abdoulie John Gambian human rights activist has championed a new project, aimed at unifying diasporan organisations. Assan Martin, a US-based human rights lawyer believes unity of purpose is the only winning formula in the long, tedious and messy fight against tyranny in The Gambia. Assan Martin has therefore established […]
Sankara’s Remains Riddled With Bullets
An autopsy shows the supposed remains of Burkina Faso’s former leader Thomas Sankara are “riddled with bullets”, his family’s lawyer says. The family is still waiting for DNA results to confirm the body’s identity. Seen as Africa’s Che Guevara, the anti-imperialist revolutionary was hastily buried in a 1987 coup. Permission […]
Support Musa Ngum’s Family
PRESS RELEASE: MUSA NGUM FUND RAISING DRIVE INITIATED. SUPPORT THE FAMILY OF A LEGEND With the approval and permission of the family of the late Gambian Legendary musician Musa Affia Ngum, a Musa Ngum Memorial Committee has been setup to facilitate few projects geared towards raising funds to support Musa’s […]
Mogho Naba: Burkina Faso’s Mossi King
Whilst traditional kings and queens have vanished in Gambian social and political life, Burkina Faso’s Mossi King Mogho Naba played a crucial role in ending the standoff between the regular army and the State Guards. The King who played a neutral broker made sure the regular army and the will […]
The Loss Of Bathurst, Loss Of Our Way Of Life
By Guest Editor Reminiscences Of Bathurst The Lost Personal account The Gambia, the West African sub-region, the entire African continent and indeed the whole world seems to be on the brink of an apocalyptic end as feared by Richard Huttington in his Clash of Civilizations perspective. To understand mine a […]
Outside Movie Makers Must Stop Scavenging Our Meagre Resources
NIGERIAN AND GHANAIAN HOME VIDEO PROSTITUTES MUST STOP SCAVENGING OUR MEAGRE GAMBIAN RESOURCES By Prince Bubacarr Aminata Sankanu, Gambian Filmmaker and Scholar on African Cinema First of all, various Nigerian and Ghanaian media outlets reported that the President of my country Yahya Jammeh has recently allocated portions of our Gambian […]