Opinion
GAMBIA: Gibril Fadia Advises Former President Yahya Jammeh
During the Sunday weekly programme on AG Radio last night, Mr. Gibril Fadia a panel member of the AG radio, a political commentator and...
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GAMBIA: Beyond Juridical Fiat: Contesting Elite Capture within The Gambia’s Land Governance Framework
In my capacity as a Brufut indigene, with deep connections to the customary landowners of the land the state calls the Tanji Bird Reserve,...
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GAMBIA: Citizens must not be Threatened for Making Political Demands
Citizens have the rights to use all legal, peaceful and nonviolent means to campaign, advocate, protest, condemn and demand Adama Barrow not to seek...
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GAMBIA: The Fake Constitutional Reform
A few days ago, the National Assembly (NA) rejected the draft constitution brought forth by the Adama Barrow government. I will call this the Barrow Constitution...
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GAMBIA: One All Draw in the Constitutional Match – What Next?
With the throwing out of the Barrow Draft Constitution by the National Assembly, we seem to be back to square one as far as...
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GAMBIA: The State of the Nation Address 2025: Reality Check
Section 77 of the Constitution states that at least once a year the President would go to the National Assembly to “address a session...
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GAMBIA: The Gambia’s Offshore Oil Controversy Refutes to Disappear
The storm continues to brew off the coast of The Gambia, not in the skies, but beneath the waves, where the nation’s offshore oil...
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GAMBIA: Where is our Voice, Hon. Minister Dr. Mamadou Tangara?
I find myself once more tugging at the sparse hairs that diplomacy has spared me, searching, along with every concerned Gambian, for Foreign Minister Dr Mamadou Tangara’s...
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GAMBIA: There is Need for System Change in the Political Parties
The vibrations rumbling in the UDP are nothing new, unexpected, or surprising. Rather they reflect an outdated system that characterizes our political parties since...
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GAMBIA: Hon. Modou Lamin B. Bah’s Observation on the Minister of Finance’s 2025 Annual Budget Monitoring and Implementation Statement
Budget scrutiny and implementation remain among the most critical responsibilities of this Assembly. As many of you will recall, we are now six months...
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GAMBIA: Whither Discipline in our Foreign Service?
The statements attributed to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Gambians Abroad, Dr. Mamadou Tangara, during his recent appearance at the Mansa Kunda forum,...
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GAMBIA: Remembering Abdou Sara Janha, A Salute to a Paragon of Public Service
The passing of Abdou Sara Janha last week unleashed a wave of tributes across the nation, but none resonated more profoundly with me than...
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GAMBIA: An Anonymous Person Within the Religious Affairs Ministry Speaks Out.
AN ARTICLE FROM AN ANONYMOUS CONTACT WITHIN THE MINISTRY OF RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS! The article is published verbatim.
DEBUNKING THE LIES SPEWED BY HAMAT BAH ON...
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GAMBIA: The Barrow Administration is Stumbling from Crisis to Crisis, Putting the Country at Risk. GFA Warns!
The public outcry arising from the sale of state’s forfeited “Jammaeh assets” lays bare the lack of transparency and poor governance of President Adama Barrow’s administration....
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GAMBIA: The Janneh Commission Devoid of Authority to Sell any Asset of the Professor
In human affairs, even the largest footprints are buried in the sands of time.
So the Thousand Year Reich of Nazi Germany, Hitler’s disastrous, if immensely consequential experimentation with European, and global...
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GAMBIA: The Police and The Young People- Wither the Battle of Wits?
The government of President Adama Barrow has definitely been quite rattled by the events of the past few days, when the young people came...