Authorities in Sierra Leone should immediately drop all charges against journalist Fayia Amara Fayia and ensure those responsible for the attacks against him are held accountable, the Committee to Protect Journalist said today. On April 1, in Sierra Leone’s eastern Kenema city, a group of at least 10 soldiers attacked[Read More…]
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Alagie Saidy-Barrow: Gambia Action Party And The So-Called “General”
Someone once said that “light travels faster than sound, so some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.” If anyone embodies this quote, it’s none other than this dull Lamin Bojang who is creating a huge idiotic gap in GAP! Sometimes, you wonder what poor Gambians have[Read More…]
2000 Metric Tons Of Fertilisers Arrive In Gambia
The Ministry of Agriculture of the Gambia has received the first stock of 2000 metric tons of compound fertiliser NPK 6:20:10. Speaking to journalists at the jetty in Banjul, the minister of Agriculture, Amie Fabureh, said she is happy about the timely availability of fertilizer in the country as promised[Read More…]
Gambia’s COVID-19 Fund Expenditure Transparent
A permanent secretary at the Gambia’s Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs has described as ‘‘transparent, honest and accountable’’ the efforts of his ministry in the resource mobilization and distribution of the national COVID-19 relief fund/package. Buah Saidy, who is one of the leading and most experienced economists in the[Read More…]
Alagie Saidy-Barrow: The Art Of Denial And Truth-Seeking (Part 1)
Even for those of us that do not subscribe to religious narratives on the beginning of humans, we have all heard about the story of Adam and Eve or Adama (not your president; I mean the original Adama), and Hawa or Awa or Awa Yombeh or whatever you call them.[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: The Arrogance Of Power And Intellectual ‘IFANBODI’ New Normal In Gambia
‘In Sickness and Power’ is the title of a 2008 book by Lord David Owen. It is a sober narration of the queer marriage that exists between medicine and politics. Running through over a hundred years, it x-rays political, military, security, business leaders, and Human rights lawyers what they contribute[Read More…]
Alagie Saidy-Barrow: In Response To Gambia’s Vice President (Part 2)
So to be considered an accomplished elite, one has to be on a sisyphean journey to be the like the Tubab because that is the key to admiration and respect. You do not get respect or admiration by loading or unloading rice while the elite celebrate their accomplishments on[Read More…]
Yanks Dabo: President’s Barrow’s Aid Is Too Little, Too Late
Almost 35 days after declaring public emergency and partially locking-down The Gambia on 17 March 2020, the Gambian President, Adama Barrow, has finally rudely awakened to the plight of the Gambian people – after attracting barrage of criticisms for his seeming indifference to their plight, in confronting the challenges of[Read More…]
Coronavirus: President Barrow Reassures Gambians
Fellow Gambians, residents of The Gambia, There is growing concern that the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in The Gambia has increased to ten. This is more than double the number since my last address to the nation. Globally, as at today, 26th April 2020, there have been over 2.7[Read More…]
Njundu Drammeh: Our Youth Aren’t Lazy: It’s Governance And Leadership Which Have Failed Them
“Give me a lever and a place to stand and I will move the earth” Archimedes Just that: a lever and a place to stand. Just the tools and a little opportunity. Nothing more. “Our youth are lazy” is probably one of the oft-quoted, moth eaten, commonplace cliches we parrot[Read More…]
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