The leader of Gambia’s main opposition party, the United Democratic Party (UDP), Lawyer Ousainou Darboe, has described the late Solo Sandeng’s death as a pivotal moment that ignited the country’s path to freedom. Speaking at the UDP’s Diaspora Convention held in Seattle, Washington, Darboe paid an emotional tribute to the[Read More…]
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Operation ‘Return First Family’s Money’ Launched
A frantic fundraising drive has been launched in a bid to return the D78,000 that President Adama Barrow contributed to the family of the late Solo Sandeng as housing support. The President and the First Lady were subjects of intense social media rebuke following the leakage of a D78,000 receipt[Read More…]
The Gambian Man Who Took On A Tyrant & Made History
In our series of letters from African journalists, Sierra Leonean-Gambian writer Ade Daramy pays tribute to a man whose death nearly seven years ago arguably changed history in The Gambia. Ebrima Solo Sandeng was not in the traditional mould of an African freedom fighter. He was not an Amílcar Cabral,[Read More…]
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