Resolution urges Gambian Government to act on recent recommendations of the Gambian Truth Commission WASHINGTON – The U.S Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution introduced by U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-ID), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, recognizing the free, fair, and peaceful December 4, […]
On many platforms, Mr.Ousainou Darboe was heard of making the point that President Adama Barrow should lead for five years because that is what the constitution says. Indeed that is what the constitution says, but the coalition partners were NOT ignorant of the constitutional provision of five years during their discussions, but that after much […]
A delegation of the Ahmadiyaa Muslim Jamaat recently paid a courtesy call on His Excellency, President Adama Barrow, at State House. The delegation was headed by the Emir of The Gambia Jamaat, Baba F. Trawalleh and they were accompanied by the Hon. Minister of Information and Communications Infrastructure, Mr.Ebrima Sillah. Their visit to State House […]
Members of the Rawdatul Majaalis are calling fo r electoral reform at the Gambia Supreme Islamic Council (GSIC) in order to give ownership to all Muslims in the Council. Cadi Abdoulie Kanteh, challenged the Council members not to conduct congress and elections without going through the right procedure of the election Act. “If members of […]
Hopes were running high for Liberia’s second presidential elections since the end of its brutal civil war. The first round of polling appeared credible. And with former warlord and current senator Prince Johnson’s endorsement, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa’s first female head of state, was likely to win the run-off in November in what has […]
President Adama Barrow is strategically playing ping pong by bringing in back the man he dismissed as Interior Minister without spilling the beans as to why he sacked him. Mai Ahmad Fatty is back in business; this time as a “SPECIAL ADVISER” to the President. Mai Fatty was relieved from his position effective Friday, 10 […]
The Honourable Finance Minister, Mamburey Njie in tabling the appropriation Bill on Friday said that total Revenue and Grants for 2019 is estimated at D25.3 billion (28.8 percent of GDP), a 28 percent growth from D19.8 billion (25.3 percent of the old GDP) budgeted in 2018. This is mainly due to an increase in both […]
Lawyer Ousainou Darboe the newly elected secretary general of the United Democratic Party (UDP) in his frank and well calculated speech during party’s congress at Buffer Zone recently stated that no elected National Assembly Member (NAM), Mayor/ess neither Chairman cannot hold UDP to ransom. Darboe gave strong advised to the sitting UDP National Assembly Members […]
His Excellency, President of the Republic, Mr. Adama Barrow recently held discussion on areas of cooperation with the President of Egypt, President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi, on agriculture, tourism, and the ongoing security sector reform program of the government. This high profile meeting happened on the sidelines of the Africa Business Forum 2018, where President Adama […]
December 2018 is here and no doubt it is time for serious politicking as political parties go to congress. So much has happened and so much has been said. All the Parties go to the drawing board to heal their wounds, re-arm and get ready to fight it out. Will it be 2019 or 2021? […]