Happy Independence Week!
By Saihou Camara
Former president Yahya Jammeh's leadership has demonstrated how cruel man can be towards man when our conscience are not guided by righteousness, but it is...
Is The Commander In Chief Aware Of The Mass Promotion At GAF?
Editor,
I am a senior officer of The Gambia Armed Forces who is very concern about the mass promotion of officers in the army by The Chief of...
Writer Urges Barrow Administration To Close Down Bakoteh Dumpsite
Dear Editor, Please help extend this message to President Adama Barrow and his government;
The residents of Bakoteh and it's surrounding are suffering too much from the Bakoteh DUMP...
The Gambia and Tribal Politics: Are the minorities politically under-represented?
‘’Differences between self and others are normatively irrelevant and that what counts is that they are both selves entitled to equality’’.
The verdict is still out on the...
Friend Of Man caught With Pistol At King Fahad Defends Him
A friend of Babucarr Njie, the soldier found with a pistol at King Fahad Mosque said his friend is a good man and that he supports The...
National Security Concerns, Former NIA DG Is Yet To Be Interrogated On Past Activities
By Abdou Taal
The former Director General of the State Intelligence Agency (SIS), formerly named the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Mr Yankuba Badjie has not been interrogated yet...
22 YEARS OF WAR IN THE GAMBIA – Now time for National mourning
I dare say, prior to July 22 Gambian revolution, our history has proven to be peaceful (hence smiling coast) provocative and culturally resonant for 30 years. 2016...
Where are muckraking journalists today?
By Alagi Yorro Jallow
While our democracy may not yet be strong enough and our institutions will constrain whatever abuses of power President Adama Barrow’s administration might commit...
WHOSE RESPONSIBILITY IS IT TO PROVIDE EVIDENCE REGARDING THE AGE OF THE NEWLY APPOINTED...
By Bubacarr Drammeh
The office of the Vice President is as important as that of the President. The Vice-President is the principal assistant of the President. Section 70(1)...
Building The New Gambia: Unfair Allegations of Tribalism against Chief Servant Adama Barrow
By Madi Jobarteh
Let’s get to the point. The people claiming that the Barrow Administration is tribalist are in actual fact not tribalist themselves but they are instead...
HOW MANY AMENDMENTS HAS THE 1997 CONSTITUTION OF THE GAMBIA UNDERGONE SINCE IT CAME...
By Bubacarr Drammeh
The Gambia is operating under a unitary government. Under this system, all government powers are concentrated in the central or national government as the only...
Is The 1997 Constitution Of The Gambia Yaya Jammeh’s Constitution?
By Bubacarr Drammeh
The Gambia gained its independent from Great Britain on the 18th February 1965. It was not until 1970 that it became a Republic. The first...
Human rights and Justice: A revisit of Pinochet?
By Solomon Demba
To draw plausible conclusions as to whether justice would be served for alleged human rights abuses committed by state officers in the Second Republic, it...
THE LONG ROAD TO REBUILDING THE GAMBIAN NATION
By Alhagi T. S. Alieun Njie
Introduction
Developments since the crisis triggered by former President Yahya Jammeh’s refusal to relinquish the reins of government to the President-elect Adama Barrow,...
Position of international law on despots-turned asylum seekers: Case of Jammeh – OpEd
By Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua
Under unremitting pressure from the regional bloc ECOWAS, the African Union and the UN, Gambian strongman Yahya Jammeh fled into exile in Equatorial Guinea. There...
Intellectual astigmatism
By Alagi Yorro Jallow
Sometimes, self-criticism is necessary for us to make progress and what makes nations successful is the ability to find public policies and political institutions...
Yahya Jammeh and Africa’s “Strongman Syndrome”
By Sankara Kamara
Gambia has become the latest African country to be menaced by a well-known syndrome in African politics. I call it the “Strongman Syndrome” because of...
“NIA Name Change Is Unconstitutional” Writer Says
By Omar Jabang
Mr. President Barrow, in as much as we love and support you, that doesn't mean we will go to sleep and watch you unchecked. The...
All Gambians need to rebuild their country, even members of the old regime
By Sait Matty Jaw
Guardian Newspaper
How do countries with no history of political transitions survive one when it comes along? How will Gambians endure their transition from authoritarianism...
MR PRESIDENT GAMBIANS WILL HELP YOU LIFT AS WE RISE TOGETHER
By Basil Jones, PhD
Gambia is at the dawn of a new era. We need to do the smart thing and nothing, absolutely nothing should stop or distract...
