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), […]
ARCHIVE (Re-post): First published on 13th February 2020, on The Digest News. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly, led by Hon. Sidia Jatta, National Assembly Member for Wuli West, is currently in Germany, to engage the German authorities with the hope of finding a lasting solution to the […]
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 […]
Mamudu: The 1997 Constitution creates the office of the Vice President. The President of the Republic appoints the Vice President and acts as the President’s Constitutional successor in case of a vacancy. Still, there is always a pair of contradictions and extremes in picking a Vice President in the Gambia. […]