The leader of the opposition People’s Progressive Party has sounded the bell that “our right cannot be negotiated.” Omar Amadou Jallow was delivering a speech at the 10th anniversary of Deyda Hydara’s assassination at Tango hall last week. “We have to come up with strategies to see actions that we can […]
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Monkey Brings Electrocuted Friend Back To Life
Onlookers at a train station in northern India watched in awe as a monkey brought his fellow monkey companion back to life after being electrocuted on the rail tracks. The unconscious monkey fell down between the tracks, apparently after touching high-tension wires at the train station in the northern Indian […]
A Possible Way Forward Part 1
A Draft Outline For Political Strategy For A Proposed National Front Introduction Basic Assumptions. a) That The Gambia Equally Belongs To All Who Were Born In The Country Or whose parents, or one of the parents, were born in the country and are concerned about the country’s good. b) That […]
Christmas Day Radio Show: Dissecting Reconciliation
Host: Musa Saidykhan Panelists: Yaya Dampha, Burama Sanneh and Pata PJ. Languages: English and Mandinka Kairo Radio show today is intellectual, intelligent and politically timely. Our panelists handle the question of whether we (Gambian activists) have anything to reconcile with a man who has ruled our country with iron fist, murdered us in […]
Germans Protest Racist Attacks On Gambian Women
Two Gambian women who were racially attacked on the streets of a small Germany town of Rottenburg on December 19 this years have been hospitalised with serious injuries and minor injuries. The racist criminal behaviour of the attacker shocked and horrified residents to the core. Church groups and local politicians, headed by the […]
US Takes Tough Action Against Gambia
US Drop Gambia from trade benefits program Reporting by Krista Hughes A road to Gambia’s isolation The United States will drop South Sudan and Gambia from a duty-free trade program as of Jan. 1, according to a presidential proclamation on Tuesday that said the countries failed to meet the […]
It’s About Time To End Dictatorship In Gambia: Waato Seeta!
By Amadou Scattred Janneh The decision on Tuesday, December 23rd by the White House to strip The Gambia of its designation as a beneficiary of preferential status under the U.S.’ African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is a clear indication that the international community has had enough of Yahya Jammeh’s […]
Gambians Fete Africa Cultural Day
On the 29th of November 2014 the Gambia Society in Southampton under the umbrella of the United Voice of African Associations (TUVAA) treated Southampton city with all things African. The members and their partners from other African countries including Zimbabwe showcased their cultures and heritage as part of TUVAA’s Africa […]
Past 3 Years Deadliest For Journalists
International journalists account for nearly a quarter of journalists killed in 2014 The past three years are the most deadly for journalists on record, CPJ finds New York, December 23, 2014-Twenty-three percent of journalists killed on the job this year were members of the international press, about double the proportion […]
Propaganda Messaging: Why No Impact
Will the loud noises undo dictator Jammeh? Will public bravado and motomouthism undermine him without targeted messaging? Our addiction to scandals in the Jammeh system are a trap. Daily we are engrossed in who is fired, jailed, who is in court, about to be fired, on the run, cannot continue […]
Freedom And Justice For Jammeh's Victims Must Be Inclusive, Not Exclusive!
“Freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody”- Malcolm X By Ousainou Mbenga The sticking point question for our struggle should be: To what end? Are we struggling and fighting for freedom for a selected few and let the rest of other political prisoners rot at Mile 2 prisons and the […]
Appeals Court Acquits Lifers
The Gambia Court of Appeal last week overturned the life in jail conviction of the men convicted for causing the murder of a goat thief. The court discharged and acquitted Sanna Camara and Abdou Camara after their appeal against their conviction and sentence was upheld. The Camara brothers were convicted […]