A carjacked vehicle belonging to the Kenyan president’s security convoy has been found in Uganda. The BMW car was taken at gunpoint last Wednesday night in the capital Nairobi. The director of Interpol in Ugatnda, Assan Kasingye, told the BBC that the vehicle would now be driven back to Nairobi. […]
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Gambia's Re-export Trade In Danger
Breakdown of cranes at the Gambia Ports Authority had put the country’s pride reexport trade in serious jeopardy, informed sources told Kairo News. “All the cranes, except one, have not been operational since August 21st,” a trusted source said. “This is the second time the machines use for offloading containers […]
Court Acquits Observer Editor
Justice Emmanuel Ahmadi of the special criminal court division of the High Court in Banjul on Wednesday acquitted and discharged deputy editor-in-chief of the Daily Observer newspaper and his co-accused. Alhagie Jobe one Mbye Bittaye left the court free men. Since his arrest on February 7th, 2013, Alhagie Jobe remains […]
Women: Creating the Africa We Want
“The wind of change is blowing through this continent…” These famous words of the then British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, spoken 54 years ago, ring true again today, albeit in a different context. Today, democracy is well established in Africa and the shackles of colonialism and discrimination have been shed. […]
Opinion From PDOIS Secretariat On Loum
Loum dealt with two issues namely; what Sidia said and what he thinks he should have said. The topic which Sidia was invited to treat is what matters and a speaker should speak on the topic. Loum did not mention the venue or the topic. One should find out what […]
Gambian Makes Premiership Transfer Deadline
The English premiership transfer deadline witnesses huge sums changing hands between multi-million Dollar football clubs. Top players stretch their contracts to the last minutes influencing price tags and contractual agreements. The panic buying usually doesn’t involve young inexperienced players. Gambian young talented player Modou Barrow became a Swansea City player […]
Gambia Press Union Is Sinking
By Journalist Bakary Ceesay Gambia Press Union (GPU) is sinking and needs urgent attention to remedy the mess to avoid such recurrence in the coming executive. The current executive came to office in June 2011 and their term of office expired in June 2014 but still they did not call for […]
Police Pushes UDP To The Wall
The leader of the main opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) has vented his anger on the Gambia Police for continuously denying his party the permit to use the Public Address System during its rallies. This has pushed the party to the wall to the extent that Lawyer Ousainou Darboe is […]
Palace Coup in Gambia Where Presidency Dies Without Succession Plan
By Sarjo Bayang Looking at the other side of same coin The big Issue of Gambia Unable to perform the duty calls of president in 20 years of forced rule, Yaya Jammeh needed to be honest by graceful surrender of a job he was never invited to take. Instead, Jammeh […]
GFF Leadership Fight Begins
The Gambia has had its two-year suspension from all international football partially lifted by the Confederation of African Football. In a news release, the FIFA-appointed Normalization Committee of the Gambia Football Federation said it was pleased to announce the partial lifting by the CAF Emergency Committee. These developments came about […]
Sidia Is An Inspirational Development Practitioner
Papa Kumba Loum Is Only Scratching His Itching Wound By Sulayman Bah First and Foremost, it is evident that Mr. Loum is a Loose PDOIS opponent, as a result, his article`s primary intention is to have a biting point on Sidia’s remarks, and this culminated in him to make an […]
As Jammeh Dishes Out Dollars, Gambia Without Insulin
An acute shortage of insulin has put the lives of Insulin-dependent Gambians at serious risk, Kairo News has learnt. “As we speak, there is a serious shortage of Insulin in the Gambia,” said a trusted source. The source said his close relative has had his leg amputated almost died for […]