#OccupyWestfield Team: “We Remain Resolute”
By Alieu Ceesay
#OccupyWestfield Team said they remain firm and resolute in their resolve to exercise their right to assemble peacefully as guaranteed by section 25 of the...
Did The Sports Ministry Spend D800, 000 on 10 Air Tickets to Togo?
by Alieu Ceesay
Investigations has revealed that the Ministry of Youth Sports has 'spent over D800, 000’ to secure 10 air tickets from Satguru Travel Agency. The said...
“Desist from taking part in the demonstration, Anyone found wanting will be dealt with”...
PRESS RELEASE, GAMBIA POLICE FORCE
The office of the IGP regret to inform the General public that the permit issued by the office of the IGP to team...
Police Revoke #Occupy Westfield Permit
By Omar Wally
The outgoing Police Public Relations Officer, Assistant Superintendent Foday Conta, has confirmed to The Fatu Network, that the permit issued to the organizers of #Occupy...
THE MACHINE CALLED GOVERNMENT VS. THE PEOPLE & THEIR CONSCIENCE: (Part 2)
By Jamal Drammeh
Polarity is the natural law that unites the ‘opposing’ forces or elements of nature to allow existence, and to maintain creation. It is the regenerative...
The Gambian Democracy and its discontent
By Sheriff Kora
Tyler, Texas
Gambia’s democratic transition is back in the limelight, and the political debate this time is not centered around the callousness of a bloodthirsty dictator....
Interior Minister Mai Fatty Removed
Fajara, 10th November 2017
PRESS RELEASE
The General Public is here by informed that His Excellency, Mr. Adama Barrow, President of the Republic of The Gambia, acting under the...
“We Will Not Succumb To Trial By Surprise”–NIA9 Case
Lawyer Chime, the defense counsel of former NIA Director General Yankuba Badjie has said his client will not succumb to trial by surprise.
Chime made objection to the...
Tambajang Takes Oath of Office For Vice President Of The Gambia
By Omar Wally
Despite the controversy over her appointment as the country number 2, Fatoumatta Jallow Tambajang is the first Gambian to be appointed by President Adama Barrow....
VP Tambajang to Meet Victims & Victims’ Advocates
The Gambian Vice President, Her Excellency Madam Fatoumata Jallow Tambajang, is scheduled to meet with victims of human rights violations at the Victims' Center on Wednesday, November...
THE MACHINE CALLED GOVERNMENT VS PEOPLE & THEIR CONSCIENCE: (Part 1)
By Jamal Drammeh
'We need fuel to make fire!'
If government is the fire, the fuel that makes it possible is the society. Government and society rise...
Things That Matter – Tackling Drugs and prostitution
I write with scathing rage as to the high level of drugs abuse and that of prostitution among the country’s youths tearing-down lives & families apart. In...
The Police Must Protect The Right to Protest. #OccupyWestfield
In the New Gambia, we envisage a kind of police services that is apolitical and non-partisan and only dedicated to the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms....
Former NIA Medic Has Bail Revoked, Returns To Mile 2
Justice Kumba Sillah Camara of the Banjul High Court has revoked the bail of Lamin Lang Sanyang, former medic of the notorious National Intelligence Agency NIA.
Sanyang is...
Only Two Things Barrow Should Focus On: Roads and Electricity!
The two major ingredients that are indispensable prerequisites for socio-economic development of any modern nation are electricity and roads. Hence if there is anything that Barrow needs...
Police Say ‘Occupy Westfield’ Likely To Cause Breach Of Peace, Warns All To Stay...
PRESS RELEASE FROM GPF
It has come to the notice of the office of the Inspector General of Police that certain individuals are posting on the social media,...
A Missed Opportunity – Dare to Dream?
By Sana Sarr
Imagine...
- Young Gambians apply for a permit to #OccupyWestfield...
- The government issues them a permit...
- The government provides security to work with the protesters...
- 10...
The Kavumu child rape cases: finally, a trial
Bukavu/Geneva/New York, 2 November 2017
For immediate distribution
In the village of Kavumu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), families once endured the unspeakable: children abducted in the...
Police Are Yet To Issue Permit To Occupy Westfield organizers
By Omar Wally
Assistant Superintendent Foday Conta, spokesperson for Gambia Police Force, has told The Fatu Network, that the Police are yet to Issue permit to Occupy Westfiled...
Senior Human Rights Journalist Says He Was Manhandled By ECOMIG Officers
Fabakary B Ceesay, a senior Gambian journalist and Human Rights Defender said he was seriously manhandled by Senegalese security officers under the ECOMIG Forces during the 61st...