By Mohamed Lamin Sillah March 31st 2014 saw the official coming to an end of the Gambia’s formal groundnut marketing season. It was a season without its usual characteristics fanfare, for crowded seccos, as buying points are called here, pyramids of groundnuts, dwarfing rusty screening implements that look like mammals from prehistoric […]
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Bala Jahumpa Still In Hospital
Kairo News sources have confirmed that the Gambia’s Minister of Transport and Infrastructure is still admitted at Madid hospital. This contradicts an earlier report published on the pro-government Daily Observer that Bala Garba Jahumpa was released from hospital. Mr. Jahumpa was airlifted to Spain for further medical treatment last month […]
Jammeh’s Last Minute Execution Game Exposed
Our State House Revealer has come back with more startling revelations on the murder of President Yahya Jammeh’s brother and sister. Mr. Haruna and Mrs. Marcie Jammeh were picked up in the presence of their families in the President’s birthplace of Kanilai and escorted to the National Intelligence Agency headquarters […]
Forgotten World Press Day & Loud Echoes Of Gambia’s Media Silence
By Mathew K Jallow Last week, one seminal issue captured the imagination of many Gambians, and for once, it was not about Yahya Jammeh, yet about him. Confused? I will explain. The TANGO and GPU World Press Day, commemorated with fanfare and perhaps even implicit apoplexy, was the rage […]
GPU Trumpets Public Solidarity
The Gambia Press Union has called on “Gambians to stand with the union and all other stakeholders to demand the review of all laws that are inimical to free media as well as a complete halt to all practices that pose clear and direct danger to journalists.” The union also […]
‘No Army Can Defeat Youths With Dreams’
By Sam Phatey Truly, the pill of truth is hard to swallow but reality we must face and accept. When I get into a tight place and everything goes against me, till it seems as though I could not hang on a minute longer, I never give up, for that […]
'No Army Can Defeat Youths With Dreams'
By Sam Phatey Truly, the pill of truth is hard to swallow but reality we must face and accept. When I get into a tight place and everything goes against me, till it seems as though I could not hang on a minute longer, I never give up, for that […]
Detailed History Of Niani
By Sainey Faye Suntou, this is an article on the history of Niani as narrated by the late Bana Kanuteh.The resistance of Kemeteng Camara is also a historical lesson. Ndungu-Siin, now in Senegal was known to be the old capital of Niani; and was founded by Dembele, who was the […]
UDP Ready For People Uprising But …
By Suntou Touray A Gambian in the United States asked what the United Democratic Party (UDP) did for jailed UDP treasurer Amadau Sanneh. And the writer did not venture into what crime Amadou Sanneh was jailed for? It is like blaming the Muslim Brotherhood for the jailing of President Morsy […]
MBG Set To Inaugurate Computer Literacy Centers
On February 21, 2012 the Million Books to The Gambia (MBG) project was formally inaugurated. To date we have delivered over 484,000 books, close to the half-way mark of our one-million-books goal. We have 66,000 being prepped to leave in the next two to four weeks. Due to such positive […]
Sankara’s Family Lost Exhumation Right
A court in Burkina Faso has refused to rule on a request by the family of ex-President Thomas Sankara for his body to be exhumed for DNA tests. His relatives and supporters condemned the decision, saying they wanted proof that it was his body. The High Court said it lacked […]
‘A National Democracy Vision’ – A Cause Worthy Of Our Fight
You may have heard of the “Singaporean Dream” of Sir Dawda Jawara and his PPP. It wasn’t a plan to develop our nation but a telling of whom Jawara truly is – the lust for glittering towers. Surely you must have heard Yahya’s Vision 2020. Is it any different? The […]