Fatoumatta: Chinua Achebe once wrote, “Since the hunter has learned to shoot without missing, the kites have learned to fly without perching.” This is particularly relevant to the teachers’ quest for justice in receiving their overdue salaries from the government. The government, having been precise in its dealings with the […]
Tag: Gambia
Immortalizing democracy heroes and proclaiming December 1 as Freedom Day, In addition to creating a Hall of Shame for dictatorship enablers and fence-sitters
Alagi Yorro Jallow. MAMUDU: It has become abundantly clear that President Adama Barrow and the Coalition 2016 leadership have lost focus following their significant electoral victory. Democracy Day, Freedom Day, or Liberation Day should be celebrated annually to mark the end of Africa’s worst dictatorship in a century and the […]
December 1. The Day Gambians Decided to End Dictatorship and Embrace Democracy
PUBLIC STATEMENT Eight years ago, Gambians under the auspices of the 2016 Grand Coalition of opposition parties voted out the autocratic regime of Yaya Jammeh in the December 1 presidential election. It marked the first time in the 60 years of the nation’s history for citizens to remove a president […]
Gambian Journalist Receives International Award As Peace Ambassador
Gambian Journalist and General Manager (GM), of Niumi FM, a privately owned radio station in rural Gambia, Mr. Ousman A. Marong, has received an international award from the Global Peace Building Network (GPBNet), in Germany through the president and founder of the Mediterranean Foundation for the Survival of African Migrants, […]