UDP Urges Sweden To Not Grant Asylum To Ousman Sonko, Gambia’s Former Interior Minister
The United Democratic Party (UDP) is following with keen interest, reports that former Gambian Interior Minister Ousman Sonko has fled the country and reportedly seeking asylum in...
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...
Youth Minister Dissolves NYC Board
By Alieu Ceesay
The minister of Youth and Sports, Henry Gomez has dissolved the National Youth Council Board of Governors.
No reason has been advanced by the Ministry for...
Stakeholders Disgruntled Over Low Tourist Season In Gambia
By Yunus S Saliu
In spite of arguments that the political impasse hampered the last 2016/2017 winter tourism season in destination Gambia, some stakeholders in the industry still...
First Lady Bio Creates Safe Space To Discuss/Report Sexual Offences In Sierra Leone
By Lusine Kallon (Deputy Minister of Youth Affairs)
H. E Fatima Maada Bio, first lady of our Republic considers sexual violence a culture that every human being should...
Mama Kandeh says he has temporal solution to electricity crisis, urges Barrow to invite...
The leader of the Gambia Democratic Congress Party has called on the government of Adama Barrow to take him and his offer to help salvage the Gambian...
POLICE FIND CORPSE BURIED WITHOUT POSTMORTEN
By Mustapha Jallow
Tujereng Police officers, on Friday, 17 March 2017, found the corpse of a woman in a virgin land at Tujereng, near Jah Oil. According to...
ECOWAS’ Gambia talks ‘failed’
The ECOWAS led talks to end the current political crisis in The Gambia has reportedly failed again as outgoing President Yahya Jammeh still remain defiant and refusing...
Sierra Leone: Key Highlights of Former President Ernest Koroma’s Treason Case
By: Amara Thoronka
On Wednesday, January 3, 2024, at a magistrate court in the capital Freetown, before Magistrate Santigie Bangura, Sierra Leone’s former president, Ernest Bai Koroma, was...
“No Political Party is Perfect” – Basiru Jaye
By: Alieu Jallow
"No political party is perfect," says Basiru Jaye, the Youth Connekt focal person and the program officer for ICT and innovation at the National Youth...
Regional Football Associations’ Presidents Speak
By Alieu Ceesay
The Presidents of the Regional Football Associations (RFAs) of the Upper River Region, West Coast Region, Lower River Region, North Bank Region and Central...
Senegal unveils Museum of Black Civilisations
President Macky Sall has inaugurated Senegal's new Museum of Black Civilisations in the capital, Dakar.
It follows calls from Senegal and other African nations for France to return...
King Muhammed VI Addresses 4th Africa Investment Forum, Calls for Concrete Action to Address...
By: Dawda Baldeh
Addressing the gathering on the 4th Edition of the Africa Investment Forum in Marrakesh, Morocco, Muhammed VI, the King of Morocco, calls on African leaders...
Spotlight: Meet Ebrima Mboob, New GID Director General
By: Dawda Baldeh
In this edition of The Fatu Network Spotlight, we feature Ebrima Mboob, who was appointed as the Director General of the Gambia Immigration Department on...
Timing of the TRRC: a matter worth serious consideration
Dr. Omar Janneh (Phd)
Yes, we need justice and we need it NOW, but critical analysis of the events over many months suggests that in seeking to document,...
More revelations in Chief Manneh’s disappearance
Lamin Fatty, the deputy production manager at Daily Observer at the time of journalist Ebrima Chief Manneh’s disappearance, had explained what he knew regarding the incident leading...
Two Senior Officers Testify In Trial Of Alleged Coup Plotters
Two senior military officers of The Gambia Armed Forces (GAF), Colonel Essa Tamba and Captain Pharing Sanyang have testified before a military court martial against group of...
Coughing Yahya Jammeh at Brikama meeting says ‘I am not sick’
Yahya Jammeh has said he is ‘not sick’ but very fine following an embarrassing coughing attack during his campaign meetings him recently.
Mr Jammeh made the remarks on...
Impersonator defrauds millions in URR
A man who claimed to be working with Mercy Ship (Doctors Without Borders) has defrauded millions of dalasis and ran away.
Among the dubious activities he did included...
Ousainou Bojang Denies Thumbprinting Any Document With Writing
By: Alieu Jallow
Ousainou Bojang, the first accused person in the police shooting incident at Sukuta-Jabang, refutes claims that he thumbprinted the September 13 cautionary statement obtained by...
