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 […]
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 […]
Gambian Opposition Speaks One Language
The Gambia’s opposition parties have made public a set of demands and proposal for electoral and constitutional reforms that need to be worked before ahead of the 2016 electoral cycle. The six parties – GMC, GPDP, NRP, PDOIS, PPP and UDP – among others want the Independent Electoral Commission to be […]
‘IEC Needs To Engage All Stakeholders’
The opposition People’s Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism has warned against “the attempt to use parliamentary majority to subvert the letter and spirit of a constitution and strangulate the Independence of an electoral Commission by statute is a canker worm aimed at derailing the democratisation process and the empowerment […]
The National Assembly And Electoral Reforms: A Mission To Fulfill Or Betray
By: Madi Jobarteh Introduction It was the Hon. Frantz Fanon who said that each generation must discover its mission, to either fulfill or betray. Right now this is the fundamental challenge facing the current generation of National Assembly Members of the Gambia as they are placed face to face with […]
Battling Bensouda’s Collapsing Cases
Is Dida Halaki getting soft? Former Top Editor shed tears for Madam Bensouda. Having condemned the cases against President Uhuru Kenyatta and Vice President William Ruto from the outset, and the cases having collapsed and/or being on the verge of collapse as I had predicted over two years ago, I […]
‘I Blame Zeinab For Jammeh’s Brutality’
A former close aide of President Yahya Jammeh has blamed the First Lady for what he called “her husband’s never-ending brutality.” The aide said Gambians would have long since “enjoyed peace and stability had Madam Zeinab Zuma Jammeh done the right thing.” “So I blame the First Lady for not […]
Jammeh Pardons 85 Prisoners
Gambian President has granted amnesty to 85 prisoners. Among those who enjoyed presidential amnesty was a death row inmate whose sentence was later commuted to life in prison. Modou Gaye, a former deputy Inspector General of Police, was among eight people condemned to death after they were convicted in a […]
More On Gambia-Bound Cargo Saga
More details are slowly emerging about The Gambia-bound container ship seized in Guinea-Conakry. It has been brought to our attention that the seizure of ASTOR has affected shippers from the United States as well. “Your story excluded shippers from USA and I am a victim who shipped a 40 feet […]
Tortured Gambian Journalist Demands Justice from ECOWAS
In 2006, Gambian security forces subjected journalist Musa Saidykhan to one of the cruellest, most inhuman and degrading forms of treatment simply for exercising his right to freedom of expression. But Musa refused to let his torture break his spirit and, assisted by the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), […]