UN Human Rights Office concerned over harsh prison sentences for Gambia’s opposition members
By Alhagie Jobe
The United Nations human rights office Friday expressed concern over the three-year prison sentences handed down last week to 30 members of the Gambia’s main...
Sanna Jarju Reappointed Chief Of Protocol At The Office Of The President
Sources close to the Personnel Management Office (PMO) have informed The Fatu Network that former chief of protocol, Sanna Jarju has been reappointed effective July 27, 2016....
Former WHO Regional Director for Africa Dr Ebrahim Malick Samba dies at age...
By Alhagie Jobe
Dr Ebrahim Malick Samba, former Regional Director, World Health Organization (WHO) Africa Regional Office (1995-2005) died Thursday, July 28th, 2016 at the age of 84....
GDC’s Tina Faal Arrested And Charged With Obtaining Money By False Pretense
By Alhagie Jobe
Ms. Tina Faal, a former nominated member of the National Assembly has been arrested and charged before the Banjul Magistrate Court with three counts of...
UK Based Gambians condemn Lawyer Ousainou Darboe’s conviction
By: Baba Jobe
It was Friday afternoon when I emerged from the Charing Cross tube station. I had just disembarked from a Northern Line sparsely filled train heading...
The Stomach-churning cruelty of Nigerian Mercenary Judges
Nigerian mercenary judges just got rewarded for throwing much needed life line of extending Yahya Jammeh’s misrule with ten brand new executive cars and a brand new...
Dictator Jammeh rewards judiciary after harsh sentences against opposition UDP members
By Alhagie Jobe
The Gambian president Yahya Jammeh has rewarded the Gambia’s judiciary in appreciation of the job his hired Nigerian machinery judges did for him especially in...
Yahya Jammeh’s self-inflicted blows bores everyone to tears
By any standards, APRC regime is collapsing under its own weight of blackmail, bickering, back-stabbing, destructive political infighting, self-inflicted blows, unprecedented betrayals, provocations, dishonestly among themselves, tribal...
“Sentences Against Opposition Leader, Ousainou Darboe And His group Are Disproportionate And Not In...
By Alhagie Jobe
The British ambassador to The Gambia has described the sentences against the opposition United Democratic Party leader Ousainou Darboe and other party members as ‘disproportionate...
Former Petroleum Officials And Others granted Bail
By Alhagie Jobe
Justice Ottaba has granted bail to the remanded Ministry of Petroleum Officials, board members and two civil servants from the office of the president. The...
Former Secretary General Arrested And Detained For Not Attending Dictator Jammeh’s July 22 Celebrations
Credible sources have informed The Fatu Network that former Secretary General, head of the civil service and Presidential Affairs Minister, Sulayman Samba is currently detained at The...
PPP Condemns Harsh Sentences Meted Out To Opposition Leader Ousainou Darboe And CO
PPP Press Statement, July 23, 2016
The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) statement on July 20 and 21 sentencing of innocent civilians.
Press Release!
What happened in the Gambia on July...
THE ALLOCUTUS OPPOSITION LEADER OUSAINOU DARBOE WAS NOT ALLOWED TO MAKE UPON CONVICTION
Below we produce the allocutus The leader of the biggest opposition party, Ousainou Darboe was not allowed to make upon conviction. Darboe and seventeen others are all...
New Gambia 2016 Movement Launched In Dakar
The fundamental principles of democracy have long been so weak in governing of The Gambia for over the past two decades. If the world is yet unaware...
“United States Condemns Harsh Sentences and Calls for Unconditional Release of Prisoners”
For Immediate Release
STATEMENT BY JOHN KIRBY, SPOKESPERSON
July 22, 2016
United States Condemns Harsh Sentences and Calls for Unconditional Release of Prisoners
The United States condemns the harsh sentences handed...
The self-reflection Gambian service men need
Let me put it bluntly. To acknowledge the grim facts that there is much to dislike about the actions of those small unrepresented elements serving the country...
Dark clouds over Gambia: April 14 protesters sentenced to 3 years in prison
By Alhagie Jobe
A group of opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) members arrested with murdered Solo Sandeng on April 14th have been convicted and each sentenced to serve...
Opposition leader Ousainou Darboe and members of his executive held at the maximum security...
By Alhagie Jobe
Jailed Gambian opposition leader Ousainou Darboe of the United Democratic Party and 17 others who were convicted and sentenced to three years in jail on...
Gambia: Prison sentences for opposition leaders continues downward spiral for human rights
By Amnesty International
The conviction of opposition leader Ousainou Darboe and 18 other peaceful protestors highlights the continuing downward spiral for human rights in Gambia, Amnesty International said...
My Challenge to the UDP Deputies
Muhammad Ali once said “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small people who find it easier to live in the world they have been...