The Gambia appears to be a litter bin of big and small dictators and aspiring dictators. Even the pro-democracy heroes and heroines, the survivors/victims of Yahya Jammeh’s dictatorship, are so used to the perfidy around them that they see no reason to hate evil and its high priests. Twenty-two years[Read More…]
Year: 2018
Gambia: UDP Leader Condemn Rogue Members For Disrupting Brikama Congress
(JollofNews) – The Secretary General and Party Leader of the United Democratic Party-UDP, Lawyer Ousainou ANM Darboe condemns in the strongest possible terms the behavior of a few individuals claiming to be members of the UDP that disrupted the West Coast Region Regional congress that was scheduled to take place[Read More…]
A Lukewarm Approach To Dealing With Past Human Rights Violations: African Truth And Reconciliation Commissions
(JollofNews) – Do the findings of the recent Afrobarometer survey on the Gambia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Afrobarometer Dispatch No. 249 by Sait Matty Jaw) affirm the fact that truth and reconciliation mechanisms are snowflake mechanisms that are incapable of delivering justice for the victims of human rights violations? TRCs[Read More…]