ONCE AGAIN, WE ARE ALL HAVING ONE COMMON PROBLEM, SO LETS UNITE AND SOLVE OUR PROBLEM!!!! By Lamin Saddam Sanyang, The Netherlands In shaa Allah we are almost at the end of the barbaric, cruel and brutal reigning of President Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh. Like employees get their wages and salaries […]
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Gambia Inspires Seinabo’s Music
By Tom Lanham Exotic neo-soul singer Seinabo Sey spent her early childhood in Gambia, home to her musician father Mawdo Sey, of the renowned Afro-pop band Ifang Bondi. “It was a very strict culture, compared to Swedish culture,” says the sultry-voiced singer, who moved with the family back to her […]
Barrow, Faal Granted Bail But…
The third man accused of conspiring to overthrow the Gambia government was on Wednesday granted bail by a Federal Court Judge in Minnesota. Alagie Barrow returned to the United States only to be arrested, detained and charged with conspiring to dislodge ‘a friendly nation’ from power. He has since been […]
Re: IMF Considers Gambia Bail-out
By Bax “Third World” countries, especially the African countries, must either take the bull by the horns and abandon their participation in the current Global Capitalist System or continue to serve the interest of the capitalist west and reduce their peoples to the wretched of the earth..The escape of a […]
Facing The Crocodile That ‘Ate My Wife’
Who Says African Men Don’t Care? African men are accused of all sorts of things now a days, leaving one wondering whether they are worth anything. Women’s rights groups who have got their beef with our men are doing their best to portray African men in the negative spotlight. It’s […]
Humra Backs Joint Human Rights Press Briefings In Dakar
Free Families targeted and persecuted after failed coup d’état in the Gambia – 2/Feb/2015 Over ten human rights organisations in Africa have today called upon the international community to take immediate action to put an end to the arbitrary detention and persecution of relatives and family members of people suspected […]
Jawara’s Obvious Fallout With Jammeh
The son of the Gambia’s ousted leader has been warned to get prepared for an “obvious fallout” with President Yahya Jammeh. Ebrima Jawara is the son of Sir Dawda Jawara, the man who led the Gambia to independence and ruled for decades only to be overthrown by the military in July […]
Re: Of Gambia’s Down to Earth Politicians
An Analysis Short on Intent and Muddled in Hypocrisy By Sulayman Bah, “ Torodo Shephered”. Reading SuntouTouray’s piece “Of Gambia`s Down to Earth Politicians”, one is left wondering what his objective was. From one angle it seems the author’s intent was to single out President Jammeh as the odd one […]
GSIC Declares Fatwa Against Ahmadiyaa Jammat
By Afang Jalamang Jabbi The Gambia Islamic Council (GIC) has stated what it called the “Muslim Ummah’s position on the Ahamadiya Jammat.” The statement, first aired on state GRTS television on January 23rd, 2015 can also be found printed on The Point edition of Monday 26th January. Even though few take […]
‘Jammeh Is Grooming Boka Haram Type Terrorists’
Gambian activist Burama Sanneh on January 26th, 2015, made the following transcribed presentation at a meeting with representatives of Washington State lawmakers in Seattle. Mr. Sanneh, a regular political and social commentator of Kairo Radio, accused President Yahya Jammeh of grooming Boka Haram type terrorists in the Gambia. After the […]
Poetry On The Street
By A Gambian Poet On the street that I grew up has a big poetic tree call ”apolipo” It is centred on the half way heart of the street In a minority village call Churchill’s town that no body knew of until when apolipo was a mother-tree It grows with […]
Jammeh: ‘Pa Bojang Betrays Me’
President Yahya Jammeh has every reason to be upset with Pa Ousman Bojang, Kairo News investigation has uncovered. Gambian leader is still reeling with a fallout out with Pa Bojang who he (Jammeh) describes as “a betrayer of the highest standing.” Despite graduating from high school and armed with no […]