Open Letter to Attorney General and Justice Minister Honourable Dawda Jallow
Dear Honorable Minister Dawda Jallow,
I want to first make certain assertions before delivering my special message to you; that I am not writing to you out of...
SAFFIYA JOOF – OPINION: Keep It Intact, Virgin Girls – Why men must be...
We have to be careful of how we redeemed.
To reaffirm our faith and lower our google lenses, the earth is wonderful with its virtuous moments and lessons....
TRIBUTE: The Late DCP Jabang Sonko Inspired Honesty, Humility, And Sincerity Among All Those...
‘IT IS SAID THAT IT IS FROM DUST WE CAME AND UNTO DUST WE SHALL RETURN’ Late Deputy Commissioner of Police, Jabang Sonko has bowed to mother...
Democracy Lessons From The Smiling Coast Of West Africa
By Dr Katim S Touray
In December 2016, President Yahya Jammeh narrowly lost the presidential elections — a loss that shocked all Gambians, Jammeh included. In a hard-fought...
Enter Gambia: Impasse 2.0
Gambia voted on December 4, 2021 hoping to see a new President on the morrow but more than two weeks later, we are yet to get a...
The Pros and Cons Of The Presidential Elections
By D. A. Jawo
The hottest political topic in this country today is the petition by the United Democratic Party (UDP) to the Supreme Court against the election...
Political Campaigns, Democracy and Secret Ballots
By Capt. Ebou Jallo Saturday, December 18, 2021
I would like to expand on a few ideas I expressed earlier during the week in a string of FaceBook...
LAMIN NJIE – OPINION: UDP has been busy on all fronts. From going to...
UDP is looking really out-of-sorts following its brutal humbling by President Barrow 10 days ago. The party is having a bad day.
It’s actually not a dream. UDP...
A Time For Work
Katim S. Touray, Ph. D
President Adama Barrow has an another opportunity to make history or, if he blows it, be consumed by it.
In December 2011, presidential elections...
Dear Baba: Open Letter to Lawyer Ousainou Darboe
By Sana Sarr
I begin by thanking you for your invaluable service to our country and its people. In 1996, when the military took over, the PPP fled,...
Beyond 75: our promise to every child
By Gordon Jonathan Lewis, UNICEF Gambia Representative
Seventy-five years ago today, the world came together to create the UN children’s agency to support and secure the lives of...
How a Political Animal beats Two Lawyers like a Drum
By Capt. Ebou Jallo 11 December, 2021
Aristotle once wrote that “man is by nature a political animal” and hence the German philosopher Hannah Arendt would later add...
Why elections cannot be cheated in the Gambia on Election Day?
By Madi Jobarteh
Given the storm that has arisen in the wake of the December 4 presidential polls, many people have reached out to me asking how elections...
LAMIN NJIE – Opinion: Essa Faal is not so popular after all. A dismal...
Essa got a little over-confident when going into this. He thought his new-found fame that came by the grace of the TRRC would translate into votes. He...
President-elect Adama Barrow: The Political Enigma In Chief: The unexpected and Ingenious Strategy of...
Alagi Yorro Jallow
Part I
Fatoumatta: The 2021 presidential elections have finally come and gone. The fever-pitched atmosphere that characterized and inundated the polity pre-election has been doused by...
International Human Rights Day 2021: Long Road for The Gambia
Today marks International Human Rights Day dedicated to the promotion of human rights awareness and protection in celebration of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)....
Why UDP lost the 2021 presidential election
By Dr Ebrima Ceesay
Late Joseph Goebbels, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, said something along these lines: repeating misinformation does not make it true, but it can...
Why did the Republicans (UDP) lose in the elections
The UDP lost not because they aren't a commanding force but because they divorced the silent majority that they needed the most.
The UDP lost not because they...
LAMIN NJIE – OPINION: If politics was religion, Halifa Sallah would be first to...
The end has arrived for Halifa Sallah - he has announced he is retiring from representation. The PDOIS leader will not seek political office ever again.
It’s actually...
UDP should stand down!
By Madi Jobarteh
The leadership of UDP need to ask their members to stand down and allow NPP to peacefully celebrate their victory.
UDP should go to the courtroom...