One year ago today Pres. Barrow was on a countrywide tour and he made lot of promises to the people. Here are some of those promises obtained from media reports at the time. Has he fulfilled these promises or not? That is the question. 1. To embark on a massive[Read More…]
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Deyda Hydara’s Daughter: ‘I Am Still Crying’ For Murdered Gambian Journalist
By Angela Quintal/CPJ Africa Program Coordinator At Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) on July 22, army officer Lieutenant Malick Jatta named former President Yahya Jammeh as the mastermind behind the murder of prominent editor Deyda Hydara on December 16 , 2004. He said Jammeh had given the direct[Read More…]
Sissiku Julius Ayuktabe: Let My People Go
I write to you today from Kondengui Principal Prison, where I am unjustly detained with a sizeable part of my cabinet and with thousands of other Southern Cameroonian prisoners who have run afoul of the repressive regime of Paul Biya, the long-ruling despot of Cameroon. We are in an increasingly[Read More…]