President Yahya Jammeh is caught red-handed exercising his dictatorial tendency in a secret video. Gambian President barks at members of combined security members of Operation The leader who digs his finger into everything Gambian is heard barking ‘Stand at ease, attention’. The video, obtained by Kairo News, gives an insight […]
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Gambians Listed On Panama Papers
Before 3rd April 2016 it seemed people the world over had heard of the name Ramon Fonseca, much, much less in the small, remote and isolated west African pariah state of The Gambia. When I made a call of randomly collected list of names of locally based Gambian journalists whose […]
Darboe’s Letter Likened To Luther King’s
QUOTE Dr King: “I am in Birmingham because injustice is here … Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The urge for freedom will eventually come … We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed” Inspirational stuff from […]
Gambia Crackdown Sparks Call To Action
By Abdoulie John The Gambia’s crackdown on peaceful protesters has been condemned left and right, with some opposition party leaders decrying the use of ‘excessive force’ against United Democratic Party (UDP) supporters protesting against court decision to deny their leader Ousainou Darboe and his co-accused persons bail. “The crackdown on protesters is not […]
Darboe, Our Mandela
By Sheriff Kora There is no tragedy greater than the citizens of a nation resigning their citizenship due to the lack of faith in their own abilities to change their political condition. This is the unfortunate reality in The Gambia — a country clutched in the hands an autocratic regime with less […]
How Press Freedom Collapsed in Gambia
This is another brilliant review of Alagi Yorro Jallow’s book ” Delayed Democracy: How Press Freedom Collapsed in Gambia ” by Dr. Giueppe Mario Saccone,a renounced scholar published in Vol. 16 No 2,July -December 2015 Prajna Vihara: Journal of Philosophy and Religion pp.117-123. This book is written by the renowned […]
Devil Doesn’t Cause Mental Health
Mental illness is a huge problem in our country, but it is something which our leaders – political and community – society and even some families did not pay great attention to. It’s a subject that is not fully understood. Mental illness affects our thinking, behavior or mood. This young […]
EU Security Grills Ben; Is He Burying Jammeh’s Hot Evidence
In their bid to extract chaff from the wind, foreign security investigators had reportedly grilled Benedict Jammeh for hours about the fate of cocaine impounded by The Gambia government. The investigators have been acting on a tip off and surveillance signals that the said drugs, worth a billion dollars, were […]
Election Year 2016: The Gambian Diaspora And The Jammeh Regime
I’d written this back in 2014 and with a little tweak to reflect our current situation in the election year, I thought I’d reproduce. I was sitting at home minding my business and thought I would grab my routine dose of Gambian News, so I went on reading the local […]
Remembering Amilcar Cabral
By Sainey Faye AMILCAR CABRAL – 1924-1973, A REVOLUTIONARY AFRICAN HERO Remembering Amilcar Cabral (Abel DjassI) “KAABU NYANGCHO” -1924-1973 JANUARY 20TH, 1973 …On this date Amilcar Cabral, one of Africa’s greatest revolutionaries was killed by Portuguese Colonialist agents in Conakry, Guinea.A true Pan-Africanist and an outstanding theoritician of the anti-colonial, anti-imperialist struggle; […]
Battle For Political Life; Dictator Jammeh Visits Guinean Marabout
The Gambia’s dictator president is currently sojourning in Guinea where he is consulting a renowned marabout on the fate of his political life. President Yahya Jammeh’s insiders reveal to Kairo News that the power hungry leader does not want to leave power. However, under the present circumstances, things are not […]
10 Solid Reasons To Oppose Jammeh
Before my residence in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and SENEGAL I served as one of the energetic, charisma, articulated young female youth mobilizers in BANJUL CENTRAL, who was part of the organizing committee for the ruling PPP in BANJUL,which was the dominant party from 1965 to 1994. Before […]