Landmark Trial Set to Open in coming October: Indian Pharmaceutical Company Faces Legal Action Over Tragic Deaths of 300 Children in Gambia, Indonesia, and Uzbekistan Due to Contaminated Medicines Gambia is gearing up for a landmark trial set to open in October following the devastating deaths of 300 children across […]
Other News
‘Gambia’s Joking Relations Is A Pride’
It was a pleasure for me to grace the UK Jarra Association football tournament and luncheon sale on Saturday August 12th in Birmingham City. The football competition was staged between regions with joking relationships: Jarra and Niumi, Badibou and Sarahulehs. Although some regions couldn’t field a team the event went […]
ECOWAS Parliament Deadlock On Niger Miliary Action
Parliamentarians of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Saturday deadlocked over the action that needed to be taken to address the Niger coup. Some parliamentarians of ECOWAS were in favour of the regional bloc taking military action against the Niger junta. Other members were against any form […]
Niger: AU Chairperson Supports ECOWAS Military Intervention
The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat, expresses his strong support for the decisions adopted by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on anti-constitutional change in Niger. The Chairperson expresses his deep concern at the reported poor co nditions of detention of President Mohamed […]
NATO Chases African Presidents In Libya
President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has made a startling revelation of how the NATO chased the 6-man delegation out of Libya. The delegation, which included the former South African President Jacob Zuma was not allowed to land in Libya, let alone broker peace between President Muammar Gaddafi and his opponents. […]
International Criminal Accountability for Yahya Jammeh’s Administration: The Gambia-ECOWAS Court
by Owiso Owiso and Sharon Nakandha January 2023 marked six years since former President of The Gambia Yahya Jammeh fled the country for Equatorial Guinea following an unexpected electoral defeat to the opposition coalition led by Adama Barrow. This political transition forced The Gambia to embark on an unprecedented transitional […]
Africa! Wake up or you would be woken up Rudely. ECOWAS mean what you say!
General Abdourahmane Tiani, REUTERS/Balima Boureima//File Photo By Manding Darboe This is abysmally complicated and very consequential for Africa. It can mean that now a days, any African leader who finds himself or herself in trouble in any African country can procure the services of a foreign mercenary group to keep […]
A True Pan-African Has Fallen
“Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un – From Allah we come and to Him is our return.” We have lost a great friend of The Gambia, a huge personality and dedicated writer and commentator on Gambian political, social and legal affairs. The brilliant Pan-Africanist and entertaining journalist and educator, Comrade […]
NPP Disowns Sweden Congress
The governing National People’s Party has disown ed the recent diaspora congress held in Sweden. In a press release published below, the party’s diaspora wing described holders of the Sweden Congress as disgruntled members who boycotted the NPP’s legitimate Diaspora Congress on December 18th, 2022. NPP Diaspora Executives Press release The […]
Mali Has Definitely Put An End To Its Dependence On France
Colonel Asimi Goita/Google Image MALI HAS JUST DEFINITIVELY PUT AN END TO ITS DEPENDENCE ON FRANCE BY CANCELING THE 11 COLONIAL AGREEMENTS IMPOSED ON AFRICAN COUNTRIES SINCE 1960. BREAKING OF THE COLONIAL AGREEMENTS WITH FRANCE. I INVITE YOU TO UNDERSTAND THE MALIAN CASE AGAINST IMPERIALIST FRANCE🇫🇷 After independence, 14 French-speaking […]
Local Gov’t Election, Another D3 Billion Down The Gutter?
To reiterate, on a similar message lst month (Apr-2023), local government authorities (LGAs) in The Gambia reportedly collect D600,000,000 from Gambians every year. During the past five years, that is about D3 billion. Did the benefits that Gambians got from the Councils commensurate with that D3 billion? Additionally, the LGAs […]
Gambia Making History
A little bit of more history for the Gambia. With the 2-2 between South Korea and Honduras, the Gambia is assured of finishing at least second in Group F, meaning we don’t need to negotiate our passage to the next round through a third place finish. This is the fourth […]