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Breaking news: UDP to expel 8 lawmakers from their party
The United Democratic Party has expelled 8 National Assembly members who are accused of loyalty to President Adama Barrow against the interest of their party.
They are Fatoumatta Jawara, Alagie Jawara, Billay Tunkara, Abdoulie Ceesay,…
Gambia to enact new insult laws
Gambian authorities are in the process of enacting new insult laws in the country barely a year after the Supreme Court partially declared sedition unconstitutional.
Sedition is a colonial law which criminalizes conduct or speech that…
Concerns over the draft Criminal Offences Bill 2019
On Tuesday December 2nd the Minister of Justice will lay before the National Assembly a bill to amend the current Criminal Code. I wish to call on National Assembly Members not to approve this bill because it contains provisions that…
Pres. Barrow receives credentials of new Senegalese ambassador
State House, Banjul, 13th October 2019 - His Excellency, President Adama Barrow on Wednesday received the Letter of Credence of the new Senegalese ambassador to The Gambia,
His Excellency, Bachirou Sene at the State House in Banjul.
In…
Ex-Pres. Jammeh sent witch doctors to police headquarters—former IGP
Ensa Badgie, the former chief of the Gambia police, has told the Truth Commission on Wednesday that the witch hunting that happened in several places in the country in 2009 was on the orders of former president Yahya Jammeh.
It is not…
Gambian refugees in Europe issue a deportation alert
The Gambia Refugee Association in Europe said on Wednesday that it has received information that one of its members was arrested in Munich while trying to renew his document (Aussweiss).
Germany has resumed deportation of Gambian this…
UN special rapporteur on promotion of truth commissions to visit Gambia
The United Nations special rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence, Mr Fabián Salvioli, will conduct an official country visit to the Gambia from 20 to 27 November 2019 at the invitation…
President Barrow embraces ‘peace project’ by Gambian musicians
According to a press release from State House, several Gambian musicians have visited the Presidency to present their plans to Adama Barrow what they call a “peace project”
State House, Banjul, 12th October 2019 - President Adama Barrow…
2009: Police officer demoted to the lowest rank for refusing “Jammeh’s witch…
A former Gambian police officer now living in Wisconsin in United States who refused to drink a hallucinogenic concoction of ex-President Yahya Jammeh’s witch doctors was demoted to the lowest rank in police, the Truth Commission heard on…
Germany resume deportation of Gambians
Last week Saturday, 8 Gambian migrants were sent home from Germany, barely a week after newspapers in the European nation reported that Gambia has lifted a moratorium on deportation.
On October 20, a German online newspaper Presse…