President Adama Barrow of the Gambia has joined world leaders in calling for collective commitment to peace building and sustainable peace. In a statement delivered at the UN High Level meeting in New York, President Barrow informed the UN General Assembly that progress has been registered with reforms in the[Read More…]
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Election Fever Grips KMC As More Mayoral Hopefuls Nominated
Nomination for Kanifing Municipality mayoral race ended Tuesday with various candidates including two of the front runners, United Democratic Party (UDP) flagbearer Talib Ahmed Bensouda and Independent candidate Bakary Badjie pulling a mammoth crowd at the offices of the country’s Electoral Commission on Kairaba Avenue. Speaking to reporters shortly after submitting[Read More…]
Building The New Gambia With Madi Jobarteh: February 18 Is NOT Gambia’s Independence Day
In December 2009 Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara published his autobiography ‘Kairaba’. In Chapter 21 – ‘Forging ahead to greater things,’ Sir Dawda hinted that indeed the Gambia was not independent on 18 February 1965, rather, as he acknowledges, “while we had a democratically elected parliament and government since independence (1965),[Read More…]
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