Jammeh’s Election “Annulment” & UNSC
By Dida Halake
This was not unexpected and commentators had suggested that is exactly what would happen. Jammeh had declared that he would “rule for a billion years”...
UN Security Council condemns Yahya Jammeh; urges no delay in power transfer
By Alhagie Jobe
The United Nations Security Council has condemned Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh's rejection of election results announced last week and called on him to respect the...
AU says Yahya Jammeh’s rejection of poll results ‘null and void’
By Alhagie Jobe
The African Union Commission on Saturday called a statement by Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh rejecting his loss in December 1st polls "null and void" since...
Yahya Jammeh refuses entry of ECOWAS head amid election dispute
By Alhagie Jobe
Yahya Jammeh’s government has refused entry and landing of the flight of the chair of sub-regional body ECOWAS and President of Liberia, Ellen Sirleaf Johnson...
UTG’s Pact of Inluential Lecturers express disgust over blatant subversion of the popular will...
By Dr. Ismaila Ceesay
Dante Alighieri once claimed that 'the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality'....
President-elect Barrow: ‘I am the legitimate President; Yahya Jammeh has no authority’
Adama Barrow, the President-elect of The Gambia has affirmed his position as the only legitimate elected President of The Gambia saying outgoing President Yahya Jammeh has no...
Yahya Jammeh reverses course, refuses election results a week after conceding
By Alhagie Jobe
Gambia's longtime ruler of more than 22 years announced late Friday that he no longer accepts defeat in the country's presidential election, reversing course a...
Barrow: ‘I will not preside over a country where arrests would take place without...
By Alhagie Jobe
Gambia’s President-elect Adama Barrow has renewed commitment to his election pledges that he will never preside over a country where arrests would take place without...
Road Map for Justice and Reconciliation in the Gambia after 22 years
By Lamin Gagigo
Friday the 2nd of December 2016, was a remarkable day in the history of The Gambia, it was a day of joy and happiness...
President-elect Barrow says he will be inaugurated in late Jan 2017
by Alhagie Jobe
President-elect Adama Barrow has confirmed that his inauguration as the President of the Republic should take Place in the third week of January 2017.
Barrow made...
Justice Bah: ‘Lawyer Darboe & Co granted bail for public interest’
The Gambia Court of Appeal presided over by Justices A.O. Adegoke, Awa Bah and Edrissa Fafa Mbai Thursday made the ruling that Lawyer Ousainou Darboe and 18...
Message to Gambians to unite
By Solo Demba (LLM, LLB.RMA, RN)
Fellow Gambians, I take the opportunity to express my solidarity with you in exercise of your democratic and constitutional rights.The graceful collapse...
Gambia’s President-elect Barrow makes maiden face-to-face with local journalists
Gambia's President-elect Adama Barrow Thursday December 8th, 2016 conducted his maiden Press Conference with local journalists at the Kairaba Beach Hotel.
During the event, Mr Barrow unveiled his...
The transition must take place immediately
By Lamin J. Darbo
As argued elsewhere, Gambia’s 01 December 2016 presidential election was a referendum on governance, governance as goes to liberty and dignity of the...
Gambia: Post victory
By Bakary B Sanneh
The outcome of the just concluded elections has made me very proud of Gambians.
Today I can lift my head up with pride and majestically...
New Gambia: Building a Cabinet
By Madi Jobarteh
The Gambia faces both a promising and an uncertain future at the same time as we prepare to usher in the administration of Adama Barrow....
Jammeh should no longer dictate the narrative
By Ousainou Mbenga
From this moment on wards, we, the voices of victory on the ground and “diaspora” must dictate the narrative of the 22 year storm we...
Magistrate Surahata Danso released
By Lamin Sanyang
Magistrate Surahata Danso of Brikamaba Magistrates' Court has been released from detention last Friday, December 2nd 2016 after the election results were announced, The Fatu...
After 20 years, it is almost surreal when you stop & thinking the regime...
By Habib Drammeh
Although the cocktail of discontent is different in every country, but the pattern of political earthquakes across the western world has continued in West Africa...
The Gambia: What Next?
By Sait Matty Jaw
Two days ago, I read an article from the Guardian Newspaper describing the electoral outcomes in Gambia and what lesson the continent, especially countries under dictatorship...