Former Gambian Interior Minister Ousman Sonko, suspected of crimes against humanity, is to stay in a Swiss jail until at least the end of October, after his appeal was rejected by the Federal Criminal Court, media reports said on Sunday. The court decision was based on a risk that he might[Read More…]
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A Celebrated Virtuoso On An Instrument She Wasn’t Meant To Play
Manchester, England — When Sona Jobarteh, one of The Gambian’s most famous musicians, plucks the strings with his index finger and thumb, the airy sound of the centuries-old West African instrument Kora echoes. rice field. Under the purple stage lights of the Manchester International Festival in July — her first[Read More…]
The NPP/APRC Alliance – Genuine Reconciliation Or Self-Serving?
(JollofNews) – As we get closer to the presidential elections, there is no shortage of issues to talk about, and one of those is no doubt the alliance between President Adama Barrow’s National People’s Party (NPP) and former President Yahya Jammeh’s Alliance for Patriotic, Reorientation and Construction (APRC). While this[Read More…]
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