President Adama Barrow of the Gambia has appointed Dawda Jallow as the country’s Attorney General and minister of Justice. He succeeds Abubacarr Baa Marie Tambadou who tendered his resignation earlier in the day to join the United Nations. An LLM holder in International Human Rights Law from the University[Read More…]
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Alagi Saidy-Barrow: We Are Tribal
I think that at our core, we are tribal. Liberated, we are able to rise beyond the confines or limitations of our tribe. Tribe is not limited to a grouping based on language alone or customs or traditions. It also means the tendency to associate with those whom one feels[Read More…]
Gambia’s Justice Minister Quits
The Gambia’s Attorney General and minister for Justice, Abubacarr Marie “Ba” Tambadou is reported to have tendered his resignation to President Adama Barrow. It is not clear why Mr Tambadou who dedicating his time in office to bring perpetrators of rights abuses to book both in the Gambia is stepping[Read More…]
Gambia For All Party: Summary Manifesto Encapsulating Our Party’s Platform Of Principles And Policies
What We Care Most About: Summary Manifesto Encapsulating Our Party’s Platform of Principles and Policies I. What We Believe In: Freedoms, National Oneness, Social Justice ·Free and open society in which citizens’, while living at peace, and in peace with each other, within a caring community, have their individual[Read More…]
Islamic Televangelist Lavish Praises On Ex-Gambian Ruler
Zakir Abdul Karim Naik, an Indian Islamic televangelist and preacher, founder and president of the Islamic Research Foundation and Peace TV has lavished praises on former Gambian ruler, Yahya Jammeh. Dr Naik who had visited the Gambia in October 2014 and held a series of Islamic meetings and lectures, described[Read More…]
Gambia Spents Over 9 Million To Combact Covid-19
The Government of the Gambia has spent over D931 million in its fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, which is wrecking its economy. According to Mambury Njie, minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, D1,48,571,203 has been allocated to fight the pandemic out of which D931,26,142,020 was spent. He did not however,[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: Why Are You So Rude, Nasty, And Disrespectful?
From the beginning of man, there has been a raft of spiteful, irrational brutes with no social restraints. In real life and face to face conversations, a gamut of human constraints like body language, tone, eye contact, age, social status has held people back from expressing their real thoughts and[Read More…]
Gambia United Against The Challenges Of Covid-19
President Adama Barrow has told a virtual meeting of Commonwealth leaders on Covid 19 that the pandemic presented a challenging period for the country but the population is united against it. The Gambian president further informed the meeting that the country has registered over forty confirmed COVID-19 cases so far[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: The US Strategy Must Be Resisted
African nations are resisting the United States plan to remove Nigerian born Akinwunmi Adesina, the current President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), and replace it with their candidate. This is what the current brouhaha is about. Moreover, it is not unique to Africa. History is repeating itself. Those rationales[Read More…]
Gambia Reaffirms Commitment To The ECO
President Adama Barrow has told his colleague Heads of State and Government that The Gambia remains committed to achieving the goals of the ECOWAS single currency, the ECO. He gave this assurance at a virtual meeting organised for Member States of the West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ) this morning. The[Read More…]
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