By Yaya Dampha Ebrima Solo Sandeng is acquitted and discharged of the charges level against him at the Brikama Magistrates Courts this morning. Sandeng was standing trial for “giving false information to a public officer and for holding a political meeting without a valid permit”, charges he pleaded not guilty since […]
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Development Is Less Impressive If…
By Lamin Touray The Director of Human Rights Watch (HRW) UK has said development is less impressive if it does not include freedom from fear, violence, ill health, life threatening environmental pollution and abusive employment practices. David Mepham, the guest speaker at the 32nd Marlborough Brandt Group Lent Lecture on […]
Scars Of River Blindness In Ghana
In his continuing series on river blindness in Northern Ghana, Investigative Journalist report on how the disease is wrecking havoc on local communities in the Upper East Region of Northern Ghana where the impact of the river blindness is most severer. The story is part of the many reports Ebrima […]
Is Jammeh Doctoring Census Results?
Kairo News was tipped that Gambian president is hell bent on implementing his 203 threats of interfering with the results of the 2013 population and housing census. Jammeh has reportedly delayed the report so that some surnames be categorized as he desires. The Gambia Bureau of Statistics last month published […]
EU Asked To Ban Jammeh
The former Vice President of the European Parliament has called on the EU high authorities to impose travel ban and freeze assets of President Yahya Jammeh and his inner circle. David Martin’s call comes ahead of next month’s EU-Africa Summit scheduled for April 2 and in Brussels. Mr. Matin wants […]
CORDEG Chair Reacts To Kairo
The Chairman of the Committee for the Restoration of Democracy to the Gambia (CORDEG) has reacted to an open letter by Kairo News Editorial Board. Dr. Abdoulaye Saine thanked Kairo for taking the time to write and share with us your concerns over CORDEG’s Evolving vision statement. Read Dr. Saine’s […]
Kairo’s Open Letter To CORDEG
The Editorial Board of Kairo News this morning dispatched an open letter to the leadership of the newly established Committee for the Restoration of Democracy to the Gambia (CORDEG), raising concern about a whole range of issues, including the public’s right to scrutinise the leaked document. Read below the full […]
Ex-Sierra Leone Leader Died
Sierra Leone’s former president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, widely credited with returning peace to the shattered west African nation after years of brutal civil war, died on Thursday aged 82. Kabbah, who led the country during an 11-year conflict in which thousands had their limbs hacked off and 120,000 people were […]
‘President Jammeh Tortures Me’
Ex-NDEA Officer Recounts Ordeal Leaders are generally perceived by their followers as reverends, almost flawless especially if they ride on a religious ticket. Such leaders are trusted, adored and respected. For any such leader to be discovered a sex predator will not only appalls and shocks his people. Well, […]
Jammeh Has Lost The Plot
The Gambian clever jack, President Yahya Jammeh, has mounted his high horse again chasing an elusive dream. President Jammeh has lately bubbles so much negative energy for the West that he unwittingly vents his unspent anger on Gambians to attract the attention of the West. Let us for a moment […]
DUGA Lobbies Senegalese Artists
Democratic Union of Gambian Activists (DUGA) has sensitized Senegalese artists on the dangers of singing the “praise of the most brutal leader in Africa.” During their recent trip to Senegal, DUGA wrote open letters to Ouza Diallo, Thionne Seck, Coumba Gawlo Seck and Youssou Ndour bringing to their attention the […]
NRMG: Gambia Is Under Siege
Founders of the newly established National Resistance Movement of The Gambia (NRMG) want the world to understand that the West African country is a country under siege. “Anyone living within jurisdiction of The Gambia is in an open prison, a country-size detention facility. People have disappeared and continue to do […]