Alagi Yorro Jallow. MAMUDU: It has become abundantly clear that President Adama Barrow and the Coalition 2016 leadership have lost focus following their significant electoral victory. Democracy Day, Freedom Day, or Liberation Day should be celebrated annually to mark the end of Africa’s worst dictatorship in a century and the […]
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December 1. The Day Gambians Decided to End Dictatorship and Embrace Democracy
PUBLIC STATEMENT Eight years ago, Gambians under the auspices of the 2016 Grand Coalition of opposition parties voted out the autocratic regime of Yaya Jammeh in the December 1 presidential election. It marked the first time in the 60 years of the nation’s history for citizens to remove a president […]
Gambian Journalist Receives International Award As Peace Ambassador
Gambian Journalist and General Manager (GM), of Niumi FM, a privately owned radio station in rural Gambia, Mr. Ousman A. Marong, has received an international award from the Global Peace Building Network (GPBNet), in Germany through the president and founder of the Mediterranean Foundation for the Survival of African Migrants, […]
The Gambia merits responsible citizenship and activism, not mere complaints on Facebook
Alagi Yorro Jallow Fatoumatta: I do not know when the rain will stop falling on us in Gambia. The Gambia deserves responsible complainers, activists, feminists, and journalists. Sensationalism, sentimentality, emotionalism, and the manufacturing of consent are dangerous in a democracy and constitute an abuse of it. There is no truth […]