President Adama Barrow of the Gambia Saturday launched a blistering attack on opposition leader Ousainou Darboe describing him as an ungrateful man. Addressing thousands of supporters at a meeting in Sukuta ahead of December 4th presidential elections, Barrow who had previously served as an executive member in Mr Darboe’s UDP[Read More…]
Tag: Gambia 2021
Gambia 2021: Lawyer Darboe Begins Nationwide Tour
The Secretary General and Party Leader of the United Democratic Party (UDP), Lawyer Ousainou ANM Darboe will embark on a nationwide tour as part of celebrations marking his party’s 25 years anniversary. The tour, which is expected to commence today 4th October 2021, will give Mr Darboe a chance to touch[Read More…]
Juwara Asks Opposition To Unconditionally Back Darboe
The leader of the dormant National Democratic Action Movement (NDAM) has called on opposition leaders in the country to put aside individual differences and rally behind UDP’s Ousainu Darboe to unseat President Adama Barrow in December election. Lamin Waa Juwara served as propaganda secretary for the UDP in its early[Read More…]
Gambia Politico: Joining UDP Is Not The Joining Of The Individual’s Dirty Bagage!
Let us be clear, joining UDP does not expiate anyone from their sins of the past, neither does it exonerate any from their crimes of the past, nor does it call for the forgiveness or burying of their past! It comes without conditions attached that would change the party’s policies[Read More…]
APRC – NPP Alliance Poses An Existential Threat
We’re witnessing, in real time, the threat an APRC – NPP-led government will pose to our freedoms. First a disgraced army General inciting a faction of the military, and now another disgraced army officer lambasting a catholic priest for preaching THE TRUTH to his flock. Both of these former military[Read More…]
Gambia’s Jammeh Pact Bombshell: Treachery Or Reconciliation?
In our series of letters from African journalists, Sierra Leonean-Gambian writer Ade Daramy considers the fallout of an unlikely alliance. It is an oft-quoted maxim that politics makes strange bedfellows. Can you imagine US President Joe Biden forming an alliance with the Republican Party of Donald Trump? Well, something akin[Read More…]
Can The IEC Be Trusted?
I think when any sensible Gambian critically think of what Mr Sutay Jammeh, former deputy vice chairman of then NCP splinter faction led by Yaya Sanyang once said about the IEC being empanelled thus calling for it’s total dissolution for them not be allowed to conduct the 2021 presidential elections,[Read More…]