Let us face it. A fiasco in the making? When caught in a fight between a weak presidency and the National Assembly, that play the majority or ‘tyranny of numbers’ politics, with weak independent institutions and a crippled economy, in the middle of a pandemic-instigated economic tailspin. It would be[Read More…]
Opinion
Madi Jobarteh: Stop Taking Things For Granted
Speaking up against abuse of power and corruption, especially in a post dictatorship society is an urgent, necessary and a historic duty incumbent on all conscious sovereign citizens! The incidence of abuse of power unfolding in The Gambia at this moment is alarming unless if one is not watching! We[Read More…]
Alagi Saidy-Barrow: How To Steal An Election (Part 1)
Elections are seen as a cornerstone of any democracy and that includes the unabashedly pretentious democracies like the United States. To buy legitimacy, even the most vile of dictators would hold periodic elections in order to claim legitimacy and be a “government of the people, by the people and for[Read More…]