More than 20 British lawmakers have signed a motion calling on Prime Minister David Cameron to add his country’s support for an immediate international inquiry into the Gambia’s April 10 and 11 student massacres. At least 14 unarmed Gambian students were shot to death by trigger-happy security officers in April […]
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What It Means To Be Black
By Seedy S. Fofanah To be Black Means to be proud of my color From the East to the West From the North to South I preserve my color like other races For the world was meant to be black To be black To be black is to be […]
‘Jammeh Will Never Become AU Chair’
The leader of the People’s Progressive Party is of the view that unless changes his bad system of governance, “President Yahya Jammeh will never be the Chairman of the African Union (AU).” Despite being in office for almost two decades, Gambian leader is yet to assume leadership of any regional […]
Entertainers And The Gambian Struggle
Pata PJ Throughout the history of Mankind, music has been an integral part of our deals; sort of a therapy. In times of happiness and sorrow, people have always turned to music for consolation and in some cases ‘avenge’ their hurt (diss tracks?) and show grievances when they have little […]
Gambia’s Season That Never Was Part 1
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 […]
DUGA Wants Mutabaruka To Shun Roots Festival
Uhuru Brother Muta, We hope this letter finds you in the best of health and in the highest spirit of resistance against the oppression of African people. It came to our attention that you have been invited to participate in the annual Roots Homecoming Festival in the Gambia beginning May […]
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 […]
Jammeh House Arrest His Brother
The Revealer has returned with yet another dirty secret of Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh, accusing him of house arresting his eldest brother in Kanilai. “This was immediately after he had executed Haruna nd Marcie Jammeh in July 2005,” the Revealer added. “President Jammahe had put Jalamang Jammeh under house arrest […]
‘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 […]