Let us stop pretending. Ousainou Darboe stepping down from UDP leadership is about as likely as a goat becoming carnivore. As long as the man can shuffle to a podium and clear his throat, he is UDP, and UDP is him. The two are fused tighter than attaya and sugar.[Read More…]
Author: Samsuddeen Sarr, Retired Lt. Col.
A Rebuttal To The GAF’s Clumsy Press Release
One is often advised never to wrestle with a pig—you both get dirty, but the pig enjoys it. And yet, when the Gambia Armed Forces (GAF), through its Director of Press and Public Relations Colonel Lamin K. Sanyang, decided to leap squealing into the mud with a press release dated[Read More…]
Sierra Leone Today: Insurgency or Coup Attempt?
Today’s Sunday morning news on November 26, 2023, reporting an attempted military takeover in Sierra Leone is deeply unsettling, surrounded by precarious circumstances. Upon reading Reuters’ report categorizing the incident as another of the “unfortunate recent coups that affected the subregion” and labeling it as a major setback to African[Read More…]