Author: Madi Jobarteh

News, Opinion

“Defend the Republic”

I just want to take the opportunity to express heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to my colleagues in the civil society under the leadership of TANGO and to The Gambia Press Union and all its journalists and media houses and indeed to the People of The Gambia for your show of […]

News, Opinion

Correcting the History of Gambia’s Independence Day 

In December 2009, Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara published his autobiography ‘Kairaba’. In Chapter 21 – ‘Forging ahead to greater things,’ Sir Dawda hinted that indeed the Gambia was not independent on 18 February 1965, rather, as he acknowledges, “while we had a democratically elected parliament and government since independence (1965), […]

Opinion

New President. New National Assembly. What for Gambia?

The sad and annoying fact is that while the country now has a new President and new National Assembly Members, the Gambia is in bad shape! With the failed promise for system change in 2017, five years down the line the Gambia instead turned into a cesspool of public sector […]