COVID-19 Exit Strategy: Shall We Tell The President?
Mr President,
As people and businesses yelp the impact of COVID-19, it’s time to think about what works well once the restrictive measures cease. A return to normalcy...
On Scholastic Aptitude and Natural Wit: Tribute to Imam Tafsir Gaye
It was the great poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who famously penned this reassuring truth:
“Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave...
NEVER AGAIN: The Manifesto of an Unlikely Candidate (Part Two)
By Baba Galleh Jallow
Fellow Gambians,
It is high time that we establish a government that will be technically functional and efficient, and that will be responsive to the...
GIBRIL SAINE: Has The Foreign Minister Misled Parliament on EU Deportations?
Appearing before deputies at the National Assembly last week, the minister of foreign affairs, international cooperation and Gambians abroad, Momodou Tangara, informed the House that a certain...
On the Macroeconomic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Letter to my President (Part 2)
Mr President,
It’s Sunday morning and I have just stepped out to the bakery close to your newly inaugurated (though incomplete) International Conference Centre around the Senegambia Hotel...
Open letter to Lower Saloum National Assembly member
From Abdoulie Jallow,
Lower Saloum constituency.
Dear Honourable Sainey Jawara, it is with a great sense of humility I write this open letter to you regarding the Prado cars meant...
Citizens’ Alliance Eid Statement
As muslims around the world prepare to celebrate Eid Ul-Adha or Tobaski, the Citizens’ Alliance (CA) wishes to extend warmest greetings and best wishes to all Muslims...
Defence analyst calls on army chief to deny Masanneh Kinteh’s bodyguards and cars request
A defence analyst Sariang Marong has called on new army chief Yakuba Drammeh to reject Masanneh Kinteh's request for a nine-man secutity detail and two cars.
Mr Marong...
On Abdication and Dereliction of Duty: Letter to Former Attorney General Ba Tambedou
Honourable Former Minister and my dear brother, I send you greetings this early dawn of Saturday June, 27, 2020 as you begin the process of abdicating your...
GAP – STATEMENT: Individual interest ahead of rationality for the public interest leads to...
The larger Gambia Action Party family under the visionary leadership of Hon. Musa Ousainou Yali Batchilly is greatly reduced to the kingdom of worrisome for the simple...
Yunus Hydara writes to Ba Tambadou on manner Jammeh’s seized assets were handled
UK-based Gambian Yunus Hydara has written to the Minister of Justice Abubacarr Tambadou showing concern over the 'manner' former president Yahya Jammeh's assets were handed.
Below is Mr...
(T)homas (G)regory (G)eorge Senghore, J.P. (1936-2021): Gambian Civil Servant, Governor of Central Bank of...
By Hassoum Ceesay, historian
I have lost a good uncle and friend of mine last weekend, when Mr. T.G.G Senghore, a pioneer Gambian Civil Servant, third Governor of...
‘Your misguided diatribe…’: ZKK tears into Momodou Sabally in letter
Dear Sabally Momodou ,
If your unnecessary, unprovoked vitriolic attack on Counsel Essa Faal was limited and specific to personal and political disagreements, we would have found it...
Open letter to UN rep for West Africa and Sahel Dr Mohamed Ibn Chambas
Doctor Mohamed Ibn Chambas
United Nations Special Representative of
The Secretary General for West Africa and
Sahel and head of UNOWAS
Dear Doctor Chambas,
It is from a compelling concern that I...
Gambia Democratic Congress Eid statement
On the occasion of the Holy Feast of Eid- ul-Adha,, The Gambia Democratic Congress (GDC) under the leadership of Honorable Mamma Kandeh extends best wishes to all...
On the realities of our current situation: letter to my president (Part 2)
Good Morning Mr. President,
It has been a little over a week since I sent you my first epistle in this series. It is tough to maintain a...
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...
On the plight of Gambians abroad during this COVID-19 era: Letter to my president
Your Excellency Sir,
This is the 7th letter addressed to you in this series themed “On the Realities of our Current Situation: Letter to my President”.
I know that...
On the plight of Gambian students studying abroad: Letter to my president
Your Excellency and Chancellor of our first ever university, I write to you about a matter very close to my heart, the welfare of young Gambians studying...
ZKK writes letter to Gambians on toxic pattern of political discourse
Dear fellow Gambians,
I have observed a toxic pattern in our political discourse that threatens civility, respect and other necessary values binding us as a People. Our strong...
