Gambia urges U.S. to extend sanctions to Zineb
The Gambian authorities have called on international partners to sanction former ruler Yahya Jammeh as the country tries to recover funds reportedly looted by the former president.
At...
Tribute to Ambassador Paschall, An Outstanding Diplomat with Deep and Genuine Love for The...
Ambassador Carl Paschall II arrived in The Gambia in March 2019, taking over the baton from Ambassador Pat Alsup, an equally amazing Ambassador who oversaw the first...
African refugees in Asia; a case of nightmare in China
Thousands of miles east of the vast African continent; far from where European tourists luxuriate in the intoxicatingly blissful ocean breeze and the magical beauty of the...
Nothing Wrong in Peaceful Protest:
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” ― John F. Kennedy
Come my fellow Gambians: Let us sing a song. “Rosa sat / So...
The UDP Must not File a Presidential Candidate
By Lamin Gano
For a moment, let us envision the UDP as a Boeing 707 plane which from 1996 until early 2016 had a very good pilot (Honourable...
RELIGIOUSITY, SOCIETY & OUR OBNOXIOUS UNIVERSE
If anything is keeping me up at night about Gambia, its how we’re completely out of touch with the realities affecting our lives, because we’ve simply been...
GOOD MORNING PRESIDENT BARROW
A people's leader. Actually isn't the most educated, revered, charismatic or even powerful. He is often strikingly ordinary, compassionate and a complete embodiment of his societal customs,...
ANALYSIS OF CABINET RESHUFFLE
By: Bakary J Janneh
Your Excellency,
I extend my heartfelt congratulations to you on the recent appointments of four new Cabinet Ministers. Your bold decision showcases your commitment to...
OUR NATURAL RESOURCES WOULD BE MEANINGLESS WITHOUT TACKLING CORRUPTION – President Barrow tells AU
STATEHOUSE, BANJUL, 2NDJULY 2018 - President Adama Barrow has told African heads of state and government that Africa’s development would be seriously impeded without stringent measures against...
Gambian Artists, Musicians, Talk Show Hosts & Civil Society Groups Must Enhance To Fight...
Alagi Yorro Jallow
There is growing fatalism and cynicism around President Barrow’s ability to fight corruption. It is so embedded. It is like a drug that has been...
President Adama Barrow: “Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched...
Alagi Yorro Jallow
There comes a time when the rhetoric must stop and the need for work becomes apparent. It becomes crucial for executive probity and nationhood to...
Deyda Hydara – 12 years on! Tell us the truth!
Outgoing President Yahya Jammeh met religious leaders yesterday December 15 and urged them to go and talk to Gambians about peace and forgiveness because he wants peace...
Halifa Sallah Clashes With Speaker Of The National Assembly
Honorable Halifa Sallah, the National Assembly Member for Serrekunda has clashed with Speaker Mariam Jack Denton who ordered him to leave the National Assembly.
"You are the one...
PRESS RELEASE: U.S. Dept. of State Recognizes ‘Significant Positive Changes’ in Gambia’s Human Rights...
The United States Department of State has recently released its 2017 Human Rights Report, recognizing that The Gambia’s democratic transfer of power has resulted in “significant positive...
The Problematics of Government
The article critique the existing paradigm of state, society and power by recounting the fallacy of binary oppositions such as state vs society and public vs private....
The Gambia’s First Biopic Grabs Honours at Special Movie Awards
The recently launched movie "Jangi Jollof", a memoir based on The Gambia's first university programme was one of the many films and their key players lined up...
Resign and Face Prosecution, Not To Pardon!
Yaya Jammeh, we have a constitution accompanied by laws that set up institutions and processes that set the parameters that govern our country. This is called the...
APRC Shut Up!
By Madi Jobarteh
The Barrow Administration is neither a Mandinka nor UDP government. It is the Coalition government as it reflects all the constituent members of the Coalition....
If Gambians don’t get the truth about Yaya Jammeh’s hidden crimes, we’ll never defeat...
As the dense fog of grueling movements and regime scandals engulfs towns across Gambia, many helpless Gambians just shake their heads in disappointments and Step back from...
Mixed Reaction On The High Price Of Basic Commodities
By Fatou Sowe
Words in the streets within the urban settlements of the Gambia has it that the prices of basic commodities such as rice, cooking oil and...
