Muslims in the Gambia are being urged to perform special prayers for beneficial rain on Friday. The small West African country like in the previous year, is experiencing prolonged and abnormal cessation of rains across all regions which has delayed the planting operations of millet, rice, maize and sorghum crops, to[Read More…]
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Former Gambian Ruler Denied Over D2 Million Inheritance
Authorities in the Gambia have blocked the country’s former ruler from accessing millions of Dalasis left in a local bank by his late mother. A local Islamic Cadi Court had awarded former President Yahya Jammeh the D2, 284,311, 50 inheritance left in an Arab Gambia Islamic Bank account belonging to his[Read More…]
Gambia: “Neither Dictatorship Nor Democracy, Paradise Nor Hell”
by Alagi Yorro Jallow A hundred years from now, people still going to be talking about President Yahya Jammeh. He recognized that, as a poster child, he had become a symbol in which larger social, economic and political forces were condensed. As a person, Yahya Jammeh lived in a way[Read More…]