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By RFI’s Daniel Finnan It was the first time Hassan Jallow crossed the Gambia River. The young man had never traversed the winding waterway that geographically divides The Gambia in two, nor had he ever encountered the internet. It was…

The leader of the Gambia Moral Congress, Mai Ahmed Fatty, has urged Gambia’s political leaders to avoid comments that could divide the people along ethnic lines. On his official Facebook page on Monday, the GMC leader said Gambia is a…

The decision by Pres. Barrow to dispatch his Vice President to the family of former Despot to pay respects to the departed soul of Asombi Bojang is indeed magnanimous. The decision has reflected that indeed the President and his Vice did…

Following a brief inspection tour of the infamous Bakoteh dumpsite, His Excellency President Adama Barrow has suggested a lasting, sustainable solution to the environmental hazard posed by the waste disposal ground. He said the satellite…

President Adama Barrow has promised the Mayors or Kanifing and Banjul that his government will do a massive roads, drainage and sewage construction exercise that will help the cities’ transformation and ease challenges to roll out their…

Chei Gambia, some of us are really too thin skinned, too irascible, too overtly sensitive, too serious with politics, too holy with life. What is life without humour, without taking some jibe and dig here, without acting the jester and…

I have observed with keen interest that wherever and whenever Gambians gather the discussion is about how can we develop our country and how can we increase living standards of our people. This shows there is real hunger for the…

The Gambian leader Adama Barrow has expressed condolences to the former president of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, on the demise of his mother. Jammeh’s mother, Aja Asombi Bojang, has passed away in Equatorial Guinea on Friday after a brief…

Is the GPU leadership going to write to the President through the Director of Press and Public Relations seeking clarification about the president’s claim that some journalists approached him to offer him good media coverage in exchange…

By Mustapha K Darboe The United Nations Human Rights Committee has expressed concern over Gambia’s ‘evident’ lack of steps to protect “archives of the former National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and other on-site evidence, which may impede…