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Team Bakary Badjie State House meeting with President Adama Barrow
On Saturday 28th September 2019, the local executive committee of the team that managed and supported the campaign for the ‘Bakary Badjie for KMC Mayor’ held a meeting with the President of the Republic of The Gambia H.E Adama Barrow at…
Coalition 2016 stakeholders agree to support president Barrow’s 2021 mandate
State House, Banjul, 27th September 2019 - The Chairperson of Coalition 2016, Aja Fatoumata Jallow Tambajang, has declared that the Coalition has agreed to support the 2021 constitutional mandate of President Adama Barrow. The parties…
Government’s bad faith with the Janneh Commission report
By Dr. Ousman Gajigo
If anyone believes that the Barrow government will turn a new leaf and put the country on a path towards minimal corruption, you should be disabused of that belief given how the government has handled the Janneh…
Tackling misinformation from ministers Ebrima Sillah and Abubacarr Tambadou
It is high time someone put it to both the Minister of Information Ebrima Sillah and the Justice Minister Abubacarr Tambadou that indeed they are being hugely rewarded for serving as ministers. It is therefore untrue, dishonest and…
Qatar, Gambia keen to cement and expand bilateral relations
President Adama Barrow meets the emir of Qatar today at the Amiri Diwan
As part of strengthening bilateral relations and strategic partnerships between Qatar and the African continent, Gambian President Adama Barrow began a three-day…
Urgent action is necessary to sanitize diplomatic passport saga
By Madi Jobarteh
It is indeed disappointing and outrageous that such national documents as diplomatic passports could be given to family members of ministers. That does not tell well at all! As the name and purpose imply a diplomatic…
The diplomatic passport saga
Dr. Ousman Gajigo
The Gambia has been abuzz with the scandal of a large number of individuals with diplomatic passports who have no need for this privileged document. These include assorted individuals such as foreigners, as well as some…
Failed politics of unscrupulous reformers and looters.
Dr. Foday J. Darboe
The Gambia’s future is beginning to look like its vile past. The political and economic euphoria that so many yearned for three years ago seems to be crumbling. This is due, in part, to institutional weakness and lack…
The forgotten souls
By Mustapha K Darboe
In December 2016, I was one of those who were recording history. Brothers became sworn enemies with minds prepared to put a dagger in each other’s heart. Those were trying times. A beautiful soul, Ebrima Solo…
Ecowas Youth Council calls for swift resolutions to South African xenophobic attacks
The Youth Council of the Economic Community of West African States have called on South African authorities to ensure swift resolution to the attacks on migrants in the rainbow nation.
Since 2008, a section of the South African…