Now that President-elect Adama Barrow has received a strong mandate from Gambians to rule this country for another five years, everyone is anxiously waiting to see how he is going to handle his new mandate. Is he going to continue with the same lackadaisical attitude, with corruption and malfeasance being[Read More…]
Year: 2022
Alagi Saidy-Barrow: The They Problem And Us Solution
Ask anyone you meet on the streets and they will tell you what Gambia’s problems are and those behind the problems. Corruption? We all know who the corrupt ones are. It just so happens that the corrupt ones are not us or our family members. It is the “others”. Hypocrisy?[Read More…]
UK To Slow Down Visa Applications For Gambia, Others
The British government has decided to introduced visa sanctions against nationals of the Gambia and other countries for refusing to cooperate in taking back rejected asylum seekers and offenders from the Unite Kingdom. UK Home Secretary, Priti Patel, has applied slow-down measures to paperwork for Gambian applicants. According to Ms[Read More…]
Gambia For All Party Leader Addresses Gambians
Fellow members of the GFA family, sympathisers and the wider Gambian public! As we come to the end of the year 2021, I take this opportunity to extend to you and your families and to all Gambians everywhere our very warm New Year greetings. Over the last 2 years, the[Read More…]
Anti-Apartheid Icon Desmond Tutu Laid To Rest
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Saturday gave the late Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu a hearty send-off at St Georges Cathedral in Cape Town, saying he was grateful to “Tutu for his efforts in helping build the nation.” Ramaphosa was speaking during his eulogy at Tutu’s state funeral in the[Read More…]
Algeria Hits Out At Gambia After AFCON Warm-Up Game Cancelled
African champion Algeria has hit out at fellow finalist Gambia after the cancellation of a planned friendly between the two countries ahead of next weekend’s kick off of the Africa Cup of Nations finals. A tersely worded statement from the Algerian Football Federation accused Gambia of calling off the game, scheduled for Saturday in[Read More…]
Cherno Baba Jallow: The Great Homecoming, And Memories Galore
I finally set foot on Gambian soil on December 30, 2021. It would be 25 years since I left. For 23 years, I remained a political exile in America. For my personal safety, I dared not return here. Jammeh was in power. And he hated his critics. Like me. When[Read More…]
Alagi Saidy-Barrow: The Peter Pan Syndrome
“All children, except one, grow up”, wrote the author of “Peter and Wendy”. In The Gambia, all children, except soured political party diehards, grow up. And in The Gambia, these soured political party diehards are a dime a dozen and they are precariously propped on both ends of the pendulum[Read More…]
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