An award winning Gambian journalist, Mustapha K Darboe, has published a book on former dictator Yahya Jammeh and his system of rule for the past 22 years. A fiction title Playbook of a Tyrant is an e-book published on the biggest US-based online self-publishing retail site, Lulu. “Rarely has one[Read More…]
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Gambia Accuses Ex-president’s Supporters Of Sheltering Rebels
By Saikou Jammeh The Gambia’s new government has accused supporters of the former president, Yahya Jammeh, of welcoming foreign rebels into their homes in an attempt to destabilise the country. Residents of Foni, the Gambian region where Jammeh had a vast farm and allegedly “bunkers and treasure”, have been hosting[Read More…]
Gambia Scraps Dollar Payment To UN Peacekeepers
Gambian soldiers taking part in United Nation’s led peacekeeping missions will now receive their wages in the local currency- Dalasi and not Dollars, the country’s military has announced. Gambian security officers who took part in various UN peacekeeping mission around the world used to get their wages in American Dollars,[Read More…]