Friday, May 10, 2024

The Gambia Government Press Statement on Allegations of 60 Mosques Construction Plan

Following widespread allegations and mischaracterization of President Adama Barrow’s remarks in the North Bank Region about the planned construction of 60 mosques, The Gambia Government makes it...

Justice Ministry Says Days Of Politically Motivated Prosecutions in The Gambia Are Over

The Ministry of Justice wishes to clarify inaccurate reports in the media that the GDC member for Jimara Constituency Honourable Alhaji Sowe was acquitted and discharged by...

Magistrate Omar Jabang must be commended and protected for the independence of and the...

This man Magistrate Omar Jabang. God bless his cotton socks. Omar Jabang must be protected at all costs. Magistrate Jabang once fled the country in fear for...

Have We Lost Track…?

Less than two years ago, we had a common cause, almost all Gambians wanted one thin, and one thing only, to change our government and begin the...

Vegetable Sellers Complain About Daily Challenges At The Market

The market women who transport vegetables daily from the villages to urban settlements, locally known as ‘Jehnda Jaii’ complained about the difficulties affecting their businesses. Many of these...

Celebrating a septuagenarian

Alagi Yorro Jallow Sidia Jatta: Happy birth day to you, today, we salute you at 70 years. Che Guevara teaches us: 'for the revolution, passion and audacity are...

AFRICA’S YOUTH KICK-START A MILLION CONVERSATIONS TO END FGM

African youth today issued their rallying call to end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in a generation by sparking one million conversations that break the silence that allows...

Lessons from July 22…

The importance of studying history is to learn from mistakes and not repeat them. In fact, the best history lesson is to learn not from your mistakes...

This and that! Comme d’habitude (like always)

“Am afraid of Americans” (its a theme song for some spy series)! Made me want to change the lyrics to “am afraid of Gambian be”! Lol. I...

Reflection on the Nature of the Dictatorship in the Gambia: Never Again and Never...

Alagi Yorro Jallow This write up is for those diaspora Gambian younger generation who were born after1994. Those who do not know what government legal and extra-legal repression...

Gambia: A New National Bar Association Launched

The Gambia National Bar Association (GNBA) is a newly registered legal practitioners association launched on Saturday, July 21 at the Baobab Holiday Resort in Bijilo. The new bar...

From the Archives: In commemoration of Yahya:

A hundred years from now, people still going to be talking about President Yahya Jammeh. He recognized that, as a poster child, he had become a symbol...

Fatoto Health Centre Lacks Drugs, Residents Told Barrow

The people of Kantora have lamented drug shortage at the Fatoto Health Centre. The drugs shortage, according to residents force patients to resort to pharmacies where they...

Mega-Projects: Mr. President Address Everyday Woes:

Alagi Yorro Jallow “Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build a dam to pretend to BRING water to 40 million people. Who...

VISION IS INDISPENSABLE IN ANY INSTITUTIONAL TRANSFORMATION

The ongoing resistance to the painful but absolutely required change at the social security and housing finance corporation is partially attributable to the new MD's lack of...

Foreign Minister Meets President Sall To Strengthen Bilateral Relations

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad (MoFA), is pleased to inform the general public that the Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad,...

Sanyang Youths Ordered Sand Miners To Leave The Quarry

Information reaching The Fatu Network has it that the youths of Kombo Sanyang Village have ordered sand miners to stop operations at the quarry. According to reliable sources,...

Barrow promises to construct Basse-Koina Road, Bridges in URR

President Barrow has promised a new dawn for Basse, as he announces his government’s plans with the support of the Chinese to construct the Basse-Koina road, which...

The International Criminal Court and Africa:

Alagi Yorro Jallow. The Gambia rejoined the International Criminal Court. One of the slam-dunk foreign policy successes so far are the fact that many of the initiatives of...

Not even Ministers are above the law – President Barrow

Numuyel, Upper River Region, 20, July, 2018 President Adama Barrow has said that no one is above the law and that the police are constitutionally mandated to enforce...