This audio is a proof of what happened at the recently screwed up Brikama Youth and Sports Congress last month. In the audio, it is evident that Karang Lang Jatta has had his hands forced to sit on the hot seat of BYSA chairmanship. He can’t deny excusing his audience […]
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Urgent Action Needed As Radio Director’s Whereabouts Remain Unknown
The managing director the Gambian Radio Station Teranga FM, Alagie Abdoulaye Ceesay, was taken on 2 July by two men and since then his whereabouts are unknown. Alagie Abdoulaye Ceesay is the managing director of Teranga FM an independent Gambian radio station which has been targeted in the past for […]
Election Act: UDP Damns Jammeh Regime
The amendments to the Election Act endorsed by the National Assembly are a clear manifestation of the Jammeh regime’s desire to truncate democracy in The Gambia. The majority party in the National Assembly has done what it is known for… blindly endorsing any piece of legislation that comes before it from the […]
What Did America Give Blacks?
I often hear my white conservatives counterparts say that blacks think that the “America owes them something” and that blacks only want entitlements. They make it sound as if America has given blacks everything that they currently have and that blacks have contributed nothing in return. So What Did America […]
PDOIS Reacts To Election Amendment Bill
PDOIS’ STATEMENT ON THE PASSING OF ELECTIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL 2015 WITH SLIGHT CHANGES BY NATIONAL ASSEMBLY APRC ON THE DEFENSIVE THE SOVEREIGN PEOPLE ON THE OFFENSIVE The battle against Elections (Amendment) Bill 2015 is unifying the sovereign people above party lines 9 July 2015 Halifa Sallah For the Central Committee […]
Where Are Africa’s Seers?
By Nkwazi Mhango Prophets, We used to have seers They’d see wide and far Ngugi saw butterflies Amah, the ugly ones, Senghor saw Negritude, Chinua saw some osus Nkwazi sees academic toxicity Lumumba sensed the danger Nyamnjoh sings grand narrative’s deceit I see ethical and political prostitutes Let’s rebel against […]
Massacre: Former Guinea Leader Indicted
Guinean former military ruler Moussa Dadis Camara has been indicted in over a 2009 massacre in Conakry, his lawyer has told AFP news agency. More than 150 people were killed when security forces opened fire on thousands of anti-government protesters at the capital’s main stadium. Women there were raped and […]
AI Scolds Chad Over Rights Violations
Release land-grab campaigner jailed for exposing the truth Chadian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release and drop all charges against a human rights defender sentenced to two-year imprisonment for peacefully expressing his views on the country’s judicial system, Amnesty International said today. Djeralar Minkeol is a Chadian activist and Director […]
Why Are The ‘Pardons’ Cancelled?
By Muhammed Sailu Bah Foroyaa has reported about the rounding up and sending back to jail of some convicts who were briefly released on presidential pardon over the weekend and wanted to know what is responsible for this dramatic development. The short lived or brief happiness enjoyed by the families […]
Gambian Threatened With UK Deportation
By Dodou Jawneh Mr Gidom Bah, a native of Sintet village who is a Gambian Diaspora activist living in Birmingham and member of the People’s Progressive Party PPP, is being held by UK immigration authorities and under the threat of being deported to The Gambia. The Gambia’s human rights record […]
Deputies Legislate Infamous Electoral Bill
Secretary General Lamin Nyabally/ JollofNews image The Gambia’s rubber-stamping National Assembly this evening passed into law the infamous Electoral Amendment Bill that aims to throw out opposition from participating in elections. The controversial bill, tabled by Secretary General Lamin Nyabally, was passed by the ruling APRC deputies with slight amendments. […]
Are Mandinkas Descendants Of Bilal?
For centuries, griots had been and are still narrating the history of the Great Manding Empire and Mandinka people who, according to history, conquered and ruled large swarthe of land in Africa. In fact, a distinguished Senegalese philoshopher Cheikh Anta Diop believed Manding Empire ruled right into Central Africa. The […]