Today is exactly one month and a week since the shooting incident that happened around the Sir Dawda Kairaba international conference centre in which soldiers opened fire on a vehicle carrying some Gambian youths. As a result, one of them, Stanislav Gomez sustained injuries with a bullet still lodged in […]
Security
PRESS RELEASE: CLARIFICATION OF AN AUDIO OF AN EX-SOLDIER OF THE GAMBIA ARMED FORCES TRENDING ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS
1. The attention of the Gambia Armed Forces (GAF) High Command has been drawn to an audio (and a photo) purportedly of a soldier making the rounds on social media platforms especially YouTube. In the said audio, an individual, claiming to be a soldier of GAF, is heard issuing threats […]
Former Police Commissioner Detained for Spreading False News
A former Police Commissioner Cheikhouna Keïta was taken into custody on Friday, following his interrogation at the premises of the Criminal Investigation Division in Dakar, Senegal, Seneweb reports. According to Seneweb, the former police commissioner was arrested after making remarks deemed offensive to the President of the Republic Bassirou Diomaye Faye and […]
National Security Under Threat : An Expert Analysis of the Barrow Administration’s Defense and Security Policies
By Arfang Madi Sillah, Washington DC National security has emerged as a paramount focus in the contemporary geopolitical arena, with nation-states around the world recalibrating their strategic priorities to address an increasingly complex array of threats. In an era characterized by the proliferation of non-state actors, cyber warfare, transnational crime, […]