(JollofNews) – The last time I headed to The Gambia, on a Sunday evening SN Brussels flight from London Heathrow via Brussels and Dakar, I didn’t make it out of the airport terminal. Like a few other so-called dissident Gambians who arrived before me from the Western world, I was[Read More…]
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Gambians Paying Millions For New President’s Hotel Bills
(JollofNews)– Despite crying out to donors that he has inherited an economy that is virtually bankrupt and in need of immediate restoration due to mismanagement of the country’s finances, Gambia’s new president Adama Barrow is spending millions of Dalasis in hotel bills. Mr Barrow who succeed long-term ruler Yahya Jammeh[Read More…]
Gambian Activist Freed From American Jail
(JollofNews) – A Gambian activist who was jailed in the United States for his involvement in the December 2014 ill-fated plot to overthrow the former Gambian regime of Yahya Jammeh has been released. Banka Manneh, a US resident who was chairman of the Gambia Civil Society Associations, regained his freedom[Read More…]