Written By Siray Touray (U.K) Brand Gambia has been tarnished for a long time since the day unruly soldiers landed on the Executive seat of power. The Gambia’s high office is blemished and ransacked with vigour and unprofessionalism by the ruling APRC. The brand that the world came to accept […]
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Open Letter To Yahya Jammeh
Reporters Without Borders 15 December 2014 GAMBIA Ten years have passed since Reporters Without Borders and Agence France-Presse correspondent Deyda Hydara was shot dead in Banjul on his way home from The Point, the newspaper he helped to found – ten years in which his murderers have […]
A Requiem For Deyda Hydara
By Foday Samateh Even as I write these words, a part of me is still in denial. Ten years on, the wishful in me still clings to a chimera. I do so because the ghoulish reality of December 16, 2004, sends me in bouts of disillusionment to the borders of derangement. […]
Remanded Minister Secures Bail
The Gambia’s remanded former Minister of Works at last secured the right to bail. Justice Simone Abi of the High Court in Banjul last week granted bail to Ousman Badjie. Mr. Badjie’s bail bond includes two Gambian sureties each owning a landed property worth D5 million dalasi within the Greater […]
Falai Let Down Activist Colleagues
Activist colleagues of Mr. Falai Baldeh have expressed disappointment over his defection to the ruling Alliance for Patriotic, Re-orientation and Construction of President Yahya Jammeh. The fierce critic of the Gambia government’s policies reportedly jumped ship during a meeting involving officials of the government and APRC in New York last week. […]
We Must Have Unity Of Action
After all is said and done, we are all in the same fight, and the same team. But one thing that must be present, kicking and alive is UNITY of Action. Some might take the route of “reconciliation”, others “force”, others “rebellion” or “whatever”, but one thing that must be […]
Security Blocks Obasanjo’s Book
Nigerian security have blocked more copies of a book authored by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. “The State Security Service people have told us that they won’t allow more copies of the book into the country,” a close Obasanjo source told Sahara Reporters. The politically controversial autobiography by former President Obasanjo […]
'Gambia Not Doing Enough To Trace Disappeared Americans'
By Abdoulie John Family members of the disappeared United States citizens in the Gambia are convinced that the Jammeh government is no longer ready to conduct an ‘appropriate investigation’ into the matter. “While US State department is working with the families to shed light on their disappearance, the Gambia government […]
A Calming Fulbe Music: Love That Never Ends
Moumounie Bande sings ‘Yidde Nde Timmata’ (meaning Love that Never Ends in Fula parlance) from her album ‘Alla yo Lobbo’ (God is Good). Moumounie Bande and her husband Zakariya Bah are Fulani artists living in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. This YouTube video was filmed in a Fulani village near Lumbila, 20km […]
Jammeh's Diplomatic Mismatch
Since the conviction and subsequent sentencing of the Gambia’s seven diplomats in London, so many unanswered questions have been raised yet no one – even government officials – could piece the puzzle together. We at Kairo News too are limping with our own questions: how did the massive tax-dodging scam start? […]
Middle East Funds Gambia As EU Cuts Aids
The European Union has withdrawn millions of euros of funding for Gambia due to its poor human rights record, leaving the mainly Muslim West African nation to rely increasingly on donors from the Middle East for development projects. The shift in soft power is of concern to Western governments in […]
Ngogu Bah: ‘My Office Abused Me’
The Gambia’s convicted former Secretary General has denied abusing his office, insisting that “my office abused me.” Njogu Lamin Bah, who appeared before Magistrate Dawda Jallow’s court in Banjul on Tuesday, said he spent all his time at work. “I never have social life; I never get time to see […]