Press release: His Excellency President Adama Barrow has on Friday, 30th December 2022, bade farewell to Colonel Cheikh Omar Tamba, the ECOMIG Commander in The Gambia, whose term of duty has come to an end. He is being replaced by Colonel Ousman Alieu Kane. The President awarded certificate of appreciation […]
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The Dictator Is Us: Book Review by Ndey Tapha Sosseh
BOOK REVIEW BY NDEY TAPHA SOSSEH THE DICTATOR IS US by ALAGIE SAIDY BARROW EBUNJAN THEATHER DECEMBER 16 2022. Alagie Barrow’s The Dictator is Us is a startlingly fresh, undyed chronicle of life under a dictatorship culminating in his short stint as head of Investigations at the Truth Reconciliation and […]
Another coup attempt foiled in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso’s military prosecutor’s office has denounced an attempt to “destabilise state institutions”, involving a senior officer already imprisoned for similar offences, recently released and then arrested again. The military prosecutor’s office said in a statement issued Wednesday evening that “the first elements” of an investigation opened after the denunciation, […]
Abubakarr Suleiman Jeng appointed as new National Security Adviser
Banjul, The Gambia — His Excellency President Adama Barrow, acting in accordance with powers vested in him by the 1997 Constitution of The Gambia, has appointed Mr. Abubakarr Suleiman Jeng his new National Security Adviser (NSA) effective 1st December, 2022. Mr. Jeng is a career police officer with extensive professional […]