Tag: government

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Editorial: Confronting Tribalism in The Gambia – Insights from the 1994 Rwanda Genocide and the Current Fake News Crisis

Alagi Yorro Jallow Fatoumatta: What lessons can Gambian politicians, populist Imams, journalists, and tribal leaders draw from the 1994 Rwanda Genocide and the ongoing fake news crisis? The propagation of identity politics and religious intolerance by politicians, alongside journalists who are seemingly compromised and on the payrolls of political and […]

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Editorial: The Gambia Teachers’ Union Strike – The Government Must be Called to Account for Fairness and Timely Payment of Teachers’ Salaries

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 […]

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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 […]

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Editorial: Constitutional debates are too serious for legal opportunists and impostors; instead, scholars of constitutional law and public policy influencers should lead the discourse in the media and on social media

Constitutional debates are too serious for legal opportunists and impostors; instead, scholars of constitutional law and public policy influencers should lead the discourse in the media and on social media. Additionally, the struggle for constitutional reform in The Gambia highlights the significance of attitude in such critical discussions. Alagi Yorro […]