Fatoumatta: The Gambian private media fought twenty-two years of former president Yahya Jammeh’s military turned civilian autocracy and suffered brutal persecutions, nocturnal arson attacks, torture, and death threats without compromising their reputation and professional integrity; those days, Gambian journalists under a despot played a heroic role in fighting for the […]
The Existential Threat of Political Lobbyists in President Barrow’s Cabinet Appointments. Fatoumatta: One of President Adama Barrow’s admirers and critics once laments that “our President is slow at everything, and he celebrates it.” He further said, “If you are slow, you cannot win any race,” he opined. So one of […]
The newly appointed Speaker of the National Assembly of the Gambia, Hon. Fabakary Tombong Jatta has said that his comments on Yahya Jammeh’s return and other critical issues against the Barrow Administration have been taken out of context on social media. A statement from the Office of the Speaker of […]
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. […]