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Coronavirus fears spark panic buying and price gouging
By Arfang M.S. Camara
In many parts of the country, traders are charging exorbitant prices for essential items in times of high-demand, especially basic food items. This is sparked by panic buying triggered by consumer fears over…
Barra: A coastal community in shock and disbelief
By Mustapha K Darboe
Forty-nine-old Kebba Bojang sat on a sofa in his parlour with his wife Katty Joh. In their house were dozens of mourners. Bojang who lives and works in Kombo returned to Barra to console his wife on the death of…
Faraba Bantang: a cry of justice met with silence
Kerr Fatou revisits Faraba Bantang one year, six months after the deadly shootings by paramilitary officers that left 3 dead and over a dozen injured.
By Mustapha K Darboe
It is New Gambia, a term that suggests a new start for the small…
A father who comes home with a gift to find his son in mortuary
Two decades, two administrations— victims of April 10 and 11, 2000 student protest ask one question: Will there be justice?
By Mustapha K Darboe
On April 9, 2000, a break from the serenity Gambia enjoyed after the 1981 botched coup was…
Kombo South: From fighting to save environment to fighting for survival
The three fishmeal factories in Kombo South have a combined demand of 75 million kilos of fish a month. In this story, Kerr Fatou follows disputes between the natives of the Kombo South and the fishmeal factories and mining companies.…
“Nobles” versus “Slaves”: Deep mistrust within Sarahulleh communities aggravates caste conflicts…
By Prince Bubacarr Aminata Sankanu, Researcher on Contemporary History and Politics specializing in slavery abolition in West Africa
Question: do you believe that people who trust each other will be humiliating each other, destroying…
Could The Gambia become a tech hub?
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…
Faraba Bantang fatalities a reminder of Gambia’s fragile transition
Monday was the saddest day of his presidency, said Adama Barrow of The Gambia, after three people were killed by security forces while protesting the environmental impacts of a sand mining company near the village of Faraba Banta. The…
Nko: An African alphabet rising from decades of subjugation
Nko is an alphabet developed in Guinea Conakry seventy years ago under the shadows of foreign scripts but the suppressed alphabet is recently gaining popularity in West Africa.
By Mustapha K Darboe
When a Guinean scholar Sulayman Kanteh…
Destroying Monkey Park: Paradox of Barrow’s tourism dev. agenda
Mustapha K Darboe
Gambia’s president Adama Barrow has inherited a number of things from his predecessor, an old school autocratic ruler Yahya Jammeh, among which, it appears, is his show of indifference to environmental protection,…