ARTICLE 19 today urged The Gambia to immediately drop the charges of false information and…
STATEMENT
The Gambia: drop the charges of false information and broadcasting against human rights activist Madi Jobarteh…
THE BAR CALLS ON THE PRESIDENCY TO FOLLOW DUE PROCESS IN EXTENDING STATE OF PUBLIC EMERGENCY ( SOPE)
PRESS STATEMENT
The Gambia Bar Association has noted with great concern the successive declarations of a State of Public Emergency (SOPE) by the President of the Republic on the 19th May 2020, 10th June 2020, 1st July 2020 and 7th…
Foreign Minister Tangara assures Cuban Ambassador of Gambia’s support at the International fora
The Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Mamadou Tangara, on Monday 6th July 2020 received the Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba, H.E. Sr. Ruben Abelenda, at his office in Banjul.
In his opening statement, Minister Tangara…
State of Public Emergency Declared
State House, Banjul, 7th July 2020
In exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 34(6) of the 1997 Constitution, His Excellency, Adama Barrow, President of the Republic of The Gambia has declared a State of Public Emergency…
Statement by the Chair, Dr. Lamin J. Sise, at the opening of the Fifteenth Session of the TRRC’s…
On Thursday, June 25, 2020 the TRRC concluded its fourteenth three-week session of public hearings. During that session, 21 witnesses appeared before the Commission. The total number of witnesses appearing before the Commission since the…
WHAT MR MADI JOBARTEH REPRESENTS!
By Toney F Mendy
The assumption of power in the continent since the dawn of independence (with lessons to be best drawn from home) created a new phenomenon of struggle for freedom and justice and even the professed New Gambia is not…
Defend the Republic. Stand up for Democracy.
The intention of the 1997 Constitution is to make the Gambia a Democratic Republic. The Constitution has guaranteed fundamental rights and freedoms to citizens and mandated the Government to respect, protect and fulfill those rights…
Statement by the Gambian Civil Society on the state of Freedom of Expression and other matters of…
When Gambians decided for a change of leadership, they indeed voted out a leader but not him alone but the system that kept him entrenched and allowed him to violate our rights as a people repeatedly. We, as a people were elated and…
President Barrow sends condolences to the family of late Alhajie Banding Drammeh
State House, Banjul, 3rd July 2020
On behalf of his government, the people of The Gambia and on his own behalf, His Excellency, President Adama Barrow expressed his heartfelt condolences to the family of the erudite scholar and…