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Highlights of Brikama Sports Congress

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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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 […]

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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 […]

Society

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

Politics

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. […]

Society

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 […]