IEC says 239 candidates accepted for upcoming parliamentary elections
Gambia's electoral body, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has released the final list of candidates accepted and endorsed in all the regions of the country for the...
Coalition Divided Over National Assembly Elections
The Fatu Network has received information that the coalition government is hugely divided over the upcoming national assembly elections. Sources say after many closed door meetings, the...
“Focus on Action and Development Rather Than Endless Talk,” President Adama Barrow
By: Dawda Baldeh and Alieu Jallow
President Adama Barrow emphasized action and development over endless discussions during a ceremony where he presided over the launch of the Accessible...
13th All Africa Games: Gambia U20 Faces Make-or-Break Match Against Congo in Accra
By: Zackline Colley
In a high-stakes showdown set to unfold at the Accra Sports Stadium in Ghana today at 5 pm, The Gambia's U20 national team braces for...
Ecowas welcomes Gambia’s TRRC
The head of states of the regional bloc, Economic Community of the West African States, have welcomed the establishment of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission to...
President Bio Paid courtesy call on former President Sir Dawda Jawara of The Gambia
Banjul, Gambia, Friday 22 February, 2019
His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio has paid a courtesy call on Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara, former President of the Republic of...
Police deny arresting Former MP Netty Baldeh
By Omar Wally
The spokesperson for The Gambia Police Force, Inspector Foday Conta, has denied the arrest of former National Assembly Member for Tumana, Netty Baldeh.
It was rumored...
ODE TO A GAMBIAN HERO, EBRIMA (SOLO) SANDENG
By Tukulor Sey
I can't believe it's been a year since Yahya Jammeh took your life simply because you exercised your right to protest, demanding electoral reform. Oh...
Deputy Managing Director Jobarteh: Kanilai Family Farms owes GPA over D6 Million
By Fatou Sowe
Ousman Jobarteh the deputy managing director of the Gambia Ports Authority has told the commission of inquiry that an outstanding amount of over D6 Million...
AU Election Observation Mission arrives in Banjul
The African Union Election Observation Mission to The Gambia’s April 6th Parliamentary elections arrived in the country ahead of voting day.
At the invitation of the government of...
FOGS OF DOUBT AND SUSPICION CLOUDS GAMBIA’S POLITICS
By SULAIMAN LEIGH
The Gambian political atmosphere is polluted with toxic political victimisation by the incumbent President. At the core of all these susceptible political challenges over the...
Two Gambians Accused of Scamming Fellow Gambians Hoping to Obtain Spanish Nationality
By: Alieu Jallow
Dawda Sabally (seen in the photo) alleged that two Gambian nationals operate as scammers by deceiving fellow Gambians in Spain with false promises of providing...
GOOD MORNING PRESIDENT BARROW
Being an inexperienced leadership in a young democracy minted from the debris of a very repressive dictatorship is the toughest, most delicate and often prone to derail...
Parliament is Debating Very Important Bills. Follow Them!
The fourth and final ordinary session of the National Assembly for 2017 opened on Monday November 27 to run up to 28 December. This particular session is...
GDC Leader Talks on Range of Pressing National Issues, Urges Politicians to Discourage Tribal...
By: Dawda Baldeh
Mamma Kandeh, the leader of the Gambia Democratic Congress (GDC), has called on his fellow political party leaders to discourage the politics of hatred and...
Gambia: Still on the Dr Ceesay Interview
Dear Editor,
I refer to the acclaimed interview #FreedomNewspaper recently had with Gambian academician, Dr Ismaila Ceesay. If only you'd take time carefully listen to it and what...
JSDA demands justice for fallen brothers of Sittanunku village
The JerrehSittanunku Development Association (JSDA) wishes to register its solidarity with the families of all victims of Sittanunkuorigin concerning thebrutality and injustices that they have been subjected...
Old People Occupying Public Offices Will Undermine Agenda 2063 & The African Youth Charter!
Readers could recall that in July 2006, the Summit of Heads of State and Government adopted the African Youth Charter at their Summit in Banjul, The Gambia....
Reflection on the Nature of the Dictatorship in the Gambia: Never Again and Never...
Alagi Yorro Jallow
This write up is for those diaspora Gambian younger generation who were born after1994. Those who do not know what government legal and extra-legal repression...
Addendum: The Gambia Government Spokesperson Sankareh on West Coast Radio Thursday, September 14
OPINION
By: Musa Bassadi Jawara
Addendum: I revisit below an article published on my Facebook page on September 14, in response to government spokesperson Sankareh’s West Coast Radio interview...
