As the political temperature values are expected to increase sharply in The Gambia in the few months to come before the local government elections, the country’s largest opposition party has started to experience some political battlefield problems as some of its officials show no sign yet that they’ll backpedal on[Read More…]
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What Constitutes Sensitive State Secret?
The justice minister was this morning pontificating about what, he termed, as sensitive state secrets. Justice minister Dawda Jallow was today a guest on Coffee Time With Peter Gomez and disappointingly, he used the platform to issue veiled threats to whistle blowers in the government. But the justice minister should[Read More…]
Why Do Gambia’s Leaders Always Leave The Stage Without Ceremony?
One thing that is increasingly becoming constant in the Gambia’s post-independence political trajectory is the chaotic nature of change of power. When the late Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara’s sun downed on 22 July 1994, he was literally scampering to safety alongside his family and officials. Meanwhile when Jammeh’s “Supreme” power[Read More…]
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