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), […]
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 […]
ARCHIVE (Re-post): First published on 2nd April 2020, on The Digest News. A leaked internal memo purportedly written by Major Abdoulie Mboob, Military Assistant to the immediate-past Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) of the Gambia Armed Forces (GAF) Masanneh N. Kinteh has shown a request made on behalf of Kinteh […]
ARCHIVE (Re-post): First published on 31st March 2020, on The Digest News & The Point Newspaper. One key sector that needed immediate reform at the advent of the New Gambia in 2017 under the leadership of President Adama Barrow was the security sector. This is because security is a key […]