The Office of the President this week received communications from the Office of the Clerk of the National Assembly regarding issues tabled by the Barrow administration during its Second Ordinary sittings on 15th and 16th June 2020. The Assembly has considered and ratified an additional loan agreement between the Republic[Read More…]
Politics
Mai Fatty Trumpets Nationalism
Mai Ahmad Fatty of the Gambia Moral Congress party (GMC) is leading calls for Gambians to stand up against attacks on their values. He said Gambians must advocate and promote pluralism and tolerance based on Gambian values and not foreign ideas. “We must be our sister’s/brother’s keepers, not our sister’s/brother’s oppressors;[Read More…]
Gambia’s Opposition Leader Says LGBT People Are Disgusting
An opposition leader in the Gambia has called lesbians, gays, bisexual, and transgender people (LGBT) ‘disgusting’ and has warned that his party will never provide a safe haven for them. Mai Ahmad Fatty, leader of the Gambia Moral Congress party (GMC) said marriage is between man and woman and anything[Read More…]