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Society

Bureng Needs Collective Support

The people of Bureng village in Jarra East are in dire need of our collective support so they can recover from the massive destruction caused by heavy downpour and winds. Farmers in Jarra’s oldest village were not expecting first rainfall to destabilise their lives. As stated in the below release, […]

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Why I Empathise Gambia’s Ahmadis

The Imam of Kanifing South Mosque has explained why he empathised with the Gambia’s Ahmadis. “I really empathise with the Ahmadis,” Imam Baba Leigh told this reporter. “I’m a regular Muslim. I am neither an Ahmadi, neither a Wahhabist or an extremist.” Imam who returned from exile is among prominent […]

Society

How Suntou Manifests Bravery

An erudite Gambian political activist based in the United Kingdom is currently in the Gambia. Suntou Touray has manifested bravery by visiting and hearing the horror stories of those Gambian politicians who fearlessly put their lives on the firing line for six months before the election that swept Yahya Jammeh […]

Politics

The Epiphany Of New Gambia

We can agree that most pundits would say it was one of the greatest week for the Barrow administration. A week that saw the official commissioning of the ferry Kunta Kinteh where President Barrow gave a big, thoughtful speech about serious things juxtaposed with his cool and collected personality, which […]

Politics

President Barrow’s Real Headache

By Benny Gudo When the coalition government led by property mogul, Adam Barrow, came into effect in a post-Jammeh, a mammoth task of steering the economy as well as the social and political fabrics of Gambia towards the right trajectory was in the waiting room. Many wanted to see whether […]

News

Observer Closure: GRA Remains Defiant

By Abdoulie John Frantic efforts by the Gambia Press Union to unseal the offices of the Observer Media Company, publisher of the Daily Observer newspaper, bore no fruit. A meeting involving the GPU and Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA) officials ended without a breakthrough. “We couldn’t agree on anything with Gambia […]

Politics

Mr. President Dump Bureaucrats!

By Lang Barrow Mr. President please give priority to the most pressing needs of the Gambian people and the economy. Your success depends on forgetting about the long awaited so-called blue print from your think tank you have been talking about. They are too bureaucratic to produce any thing different […]