A group of human rights organizations announced Saturday the launch of an international campaign geared towards bringing former longtime Gambian ruler and his accomplices to book. “We, victims of human rights violations under the Jammeh government and human rights lawyers and advocates, met on 19-20 October 2017, in Banjul, to […]

By Baba Sillah The commission of inquiry into the financial dealings and assets of former President Jammeh, his family and close associates, has placed an interim order on Muhammed Bazzi, Amadou Samba and Faidi Mazegi from selling, assigning, mortgaging, charging or otherwise disposing of any of their movable and immovable […]

It is not only insulting to the intelligence of ordinary Gambians but it is also regrettable that some of us live on alternative truth. As weeks go by, the first commission of inquiry set up in the “New Gambia” to look into the assets of Jammeh Kanilai and his close […]

The Gambia’s Ambassador to Sierra Leone has recently present his Letter of Credence to President Ernest Bai Koroma. In his letter published below, Femi Peter said “I feel thoroughly at home.” Your Excellency Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, President of our sister Republic of Sierra Leone It gives me great pleasure […]

A petition that calls for voting rights to be available to Gambians in the Diaspora has been received by the Independent Electoral Commission, activists behind the move confirmed in an email message. The petition — available in the link below —consists of five points around the registration and voting process […]

At least seven Gambian middle ranking military officers have had their services terminated after they were accused of proving loyalty to former exiled President Yahya Jammeh. The 5 Majors and 2 Captains were reportedly caught giving some sensitive national information to Mr. Jammeh in Equatorial Guinea. Major Karamba Jammeh, Major […]

By Abdoulie John The leader of Yahya Jammeh’s defeated  Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction leader (APRC) remains defiant about holding the party’s planned 50,000-man political rally later in October. “The issue of the political rally was not even discussed,” Fabakary Tombong Jatta told reporters shortly after the police questioned […]

By Abdoulie John The Gambia’s Minister of Agriculture Omar A. Jallow has set a two-year time frame for the country to be rice self-sufficient. “With the present intervention in the rice sector, we hope that we can be self-sufficient in the next two years,” he told journalists during a press […]

Since assuming the leadership mantle in end of January this year, Gambian President Adama Barrow has been confronted with so many challenging issues. His Coalition government first had to deal with security issues posed by remnants of ousted President Yahya Jammeh’s civilian and security loyalists. The government then grapples with […]

By Abdoulie John Gambian leader winds up his maiden presidential visit to the United States where he attended the General Assembly of the United Nations. President Adama Barrow wrapped up his flurry of activities with a town hall meeting with Diaspora Gambians in New York on Saturday before heading home […]

Despite being thousands of miles away, the Director of the Gambia-based Agency for the Promotion of Global Peace and Religious Tolerance (AGPGRT) believes the world must not sit back and watch Myanmar’s Rohingya risk extinction in the only country they call home. Sheikh Sheriff Mameena Hydara’s message – a response […]

President Adama Barrow has delivered his maiden speech at the General Assembly of the United Nations. It was a speech that left majority of his critics dumbfounded. Find below the speech in full details: STATEMENT BY H.E, PRESIDENT ADAMA BARROW, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE GAMBIA, AT THE GENERAL […]