A diasporan Gambian organisation has launched an appeal to the opposition parties to team up and select the right candidate for the 2016 presidential race, insisting that “a divided opposition can never stand.” In a statement, the National Transitional Council of The Gambia (NTCG) said the goal is to make […]
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Hillary Clinton: Race For US Presidency
By Yero Jallow “People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that’s the time to do something about it, not when it’s around your neck.” – Chinua Achebe. Oh well, good luck to the Clintons. Hilary Clinton has been dragging her feet on this, but her interest in […]
The Validity Of Gambia’s Death Penalty Regime: A Question The Supreme Court Answered Incorrectly
By Lamin J Darbo With the recent announcement of Courts Martial verdicts on the 30 December 2014 State House attacks, the question of the death penalty is back on the agenda as a topic of major public interest. Both sides of the underlying political spectrum informing the December events are […]
Gambian Wins US Council Seat
A Gambian born US citizen, Samba Baldeh on Wednesday won his election bid for a Council man seat in District 17 of Madison, the capital of Wisconsin State in the north-west of the United States, beating a four times incumbent Senior Council Man Joe Clausius. Clausius was first elected to […]
Tribalism: Constitutional Constipation
By Johnson My Marxist/Leninist/Maoist Comrades cum Friends and I had been locked in disagreement. No matter how I marshalled my arguments I could not persuade him that Pan-Africanism was an African Personality to the World Working Class Movement. Indeed within Pan-Africanism we faced possible unnecessary “ruptures” between so called “Nkrumahists”; […]
UDP Leader Unlocks Dangerous Links
Lawyer Darboe Exposing the Dangerous links between Corruption and Pervasive Human Rights Abuse to the Growing Influence of Insecurity on Politics in West Africa The leader of the United Democratic Party (UDP) Lawyer Ousainou Darboe has warned West African leaders to curb corruption and pervasive human rights abuse if they […]
NTCG Mourns April Massacre Victims
THE STATEMENT OF NTCG ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF APRIL 10TH &11TH, 2000 The NTCG mourns and unequivocally condemned the brutal killing of students 15 years ago by the security forces under the directives of Dictator Yaya Jammeh. This day and on the day that prefixes it on April 10th &11th […]
Jammeh’s Killers Indemnified With Troubled Conscience!
By Pata Saidykhan It’s that time of the year again. Never gets old. 15 years on, the pain and agony of one of the darkest days of our nation’s history remains fresh in our minds. The massacre that went unpunished, persistent ache and sadness of the families and nation with […]
Kairo Radio Hosts April 10 & 11 Special
Starting Friday afternoon until early Sunday, Kairo Radio is hosting a special program on The Gambia’s bloody student demonstration. It is exactly 15 years today when trigger-happy Gambian security officers shot and killed 14 innocent people. The victims included a three-year-old boy and a journalist cum Red Cross volunteer Omar […]
15 Years Still No Justice For Fallen Students
FIFTEEN YEARS HAS GONE, WHEN 14 INNOCENT STUDENTS PLUS A RED CROSS VOLUNTEER AND A THREE-YEAR OLD CHILD WERE BRUTALLY MASSACRED IN COLD BLOOD BY THE POLICE INTERVENTION UNIT (PIU) OF THE GAMBIA, AND YET STILL NO JUSTICE HAS BEEN TAKEN PLACE !!! By Lamin Saddam Sanyang, The Netherlands Fifteen years ago April […]
Why Agriculture Minister Resign
Kairo News sources were confident that Solomon Owens was on the verge of throwing his ministerial towel well before the news broke out. But our editors used caution and decided to gather information in bits and pieces, in a bid to get to the bottom of the story. Of course, […]
The Gambian Opposition: Some Honest Analysis Please
By Alkali Conteh Growing up in Sabbach-Sanjal in the early 1960’s we witnessed the Gambia’s political climate beginning to shape up. As the powers in charge were determined to derail the efforts of the emerging political landscape to bring self rule to our nation, our people turned to the grassroots […]