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...
Gambia removes age limit for President, Superior Court judges
Gambia’s National Assembly on Tuesday amended the country’s 1997 Constitution removing the upper age limit for holding office as President of the Republic of The Gambia from...
Gambia’s Parliament votes reducing deposits payable by candidates in all elections
Gambia’s Parliament on Tuesday unanimously voted to reduce the current deposits payable by candidates aspiring for elections to public offices notably Offices of President, Member of the...
Interior Minister Fatty says MPs lack of mobility a national disgrace
Gambia’s Interior Minister has described the lack of transportation means (official vehicles) for Members of the National Assembly as a national disgrace.
Mai Ahmed Fatty was responding to...
No Academic Qualifications Required For Contesting Elections As Member Of Parliament
By Lamin Sanyang
Gambia is probably the only country in the subregion that does not screen academic qualifications for its National Assembly Members.
The Independent Electoral Commission IEC, the...
Drunk Police Officer Arrested
One Secka Baye, a police officer was arrested earlyTuesday morning, February 28, around Latrikunda Sabiji after citizens complained about his behavior.
Secka was arrested after being found under...
“I love peace that is why am stress free” – Ex-CDS Bargie
Gambia's former Army Chief Lt. General Ousman Bargie says he loves peace that is why he is stress free.
Bargie was recently given a nick name ‘Mr No...
GAF bids farewell to Army Chief Bargie
The Gambia Armed Forces (GAF) on Monday bade farewell to one of the longest serving Chiefs of Defense Staff, Lt. General Ousman Bargie in a symbolic and...
Gambia Milling Corporation staff protests demanding better working conditions
Staffers at Gambia Milling Corporation on Monday staged a mass protest calling on the management of GMC to provide them with better working conditions.
The protest took place...
4 senior Gambian military officers discharged
The Commander-in-Chief of The Gambia Armed Forces and President of the Republic Adama Barrow has discharged four senior members of The Gambia Armed Forces with effect from...
Gambia’s Mineral Saga
By Lamin Sanyang
Gambia's mineral resources locally called 'black sand' has been exploited by the former President Yahya Jammeh and foreign investors over the years at Sanyang Mining...
News Update: Former Prison DG David Colley Arrested
Sources have informed The Fatu Network that former director general of mile 2 central prison, David Colley is currently arrested and is helping the police in their...
‘Jungler’ Malick Jatta Arrested
Lieutenant Malick Jatta, a member of former President Yahya Jammeh's assassin team (Junglers), is currently under arrest, security sources say. Malick abandoned his home in Busumbala and...
SECOND LETTER TO GAMBIANS, SETTING THE RECORDS STRAIGHT: MY RESIGNATION, THE CAMPAIGN OF CALUMNY...
By Emmanuel Nkea
Good Morning Gambia
I acknowledge receipt of your response to my First Letter, and more particularly the request by many of you, for me to explain...
Be Patient: Government is not like running a Corner Shop (‘Bitiki Narr’)!
By Sheriff Kora
The year 2016 and the historic events leading to the elections and the political impasse
that followed in The Gambia will go down deep in our...
Soldier found with pistol at King Fahd Mosque granted bail
By Dawda Faye, Point Nwspaper
Babucarr Njie, the soldier who was found with a pistol at King Fahd Mosque, was on 24 February 2017 granted bail by magistrate...
Banka Manneh, US-based Gambian
Talibeh Hydara, Standard Newspaper
Banka Manneh, a Gambian resident in the United States, is the chairman of the Gambia Civil Society Associations. Banka left for US in the...
Former DG David Colley Hands Over To Manneh
Barely 24 hrs after a group of security officers from The Criminal Investigations Department of The Gambia Police Force, went to the Yundum residence of the former...
Former Prison DG Is Nowhere To Be Seen
A group of security officers from The Criminal Investigations Department of The Gambia Police Force, Sunday, February 26, went to the Yundum residence of the former director...
Alhagie Martin Is Back In The Army
Brigadier general Alhagie Martin, former commander of The Kanilai Camp and The State Guards battalion has bounced back into the army reliable sources have informed The Fatu...