The death has been announced of Alhaji Momodou Njie, a former Gambian footballer and deputy major of Banjul City Council. Mr Njie passed away on Sunday at the age of 72 in neighbouring Senegal where he was receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness. Born in Banjul in March 1948, Biri[Read More…]
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Alagi Yorro Jallow: Open Letter To Gambia’s Attorney General And Police Boss
Dear Attorney General and minister of Justice and the Inspector General of Police, drop the charges against Westminister Foundation For Democracy representative in the Gambia, Madi Jobarteh. Questions of constitutionality aside, this action further undermines the already dwindling democratic space in which freedom of expression and civil society operates in[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: Gambia’s National Assembly: Democracy At Work
The purpose of the National Assembly is to instill pride into electorates or people who were sinking into a self-destructive inferiority complex due to years of abuse and suppression. It is quite challenging to hear and read the kind of things they spoke about as lawmakers – deeply reflective, extensively[Read More…]