Commentary

AU Golden Jubilee – Is there anything to celebrate? As African leaders gather in the Ethiopian capital to wine and dine as part of the celebrations of the golden jubilee of the African Union, most...	No Press Freedom As Another World Press Freedom Day is Observed In The Gambia Another World Press Freedom Day was around last Friday 3rd May 2013. Unfortunately we in the Gambia cannot boast of any press freedom as we mark...
Another inequitable national honours list Once again, the Gambian public has been treated to another very long list of socalled national awards recipients; 325 individuals and institutions...	Abused, Insulted And Treated AS Foreigner At Kanilai. My Hours Of Horrow In President Jammeh’s Native Village! WHAT A SUNDAY AT KANILAI! I had a very busy week working on my project and honuoring invitations by various youth groups in the country. On Thursday...
Personal Greed Destroying National Grid A case of social decline where symptoms are treated leaving causes at a cost Selfishness and greed for personal possession are two major social ills affecting more than half the population yet everyone seems pointing fingers...	FGM ; It’s All A Mere Tradition to Me Thirty women circumcisers vowed to stop Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Does it mean that Gamcotrap’s campaign to eradicate this deep-rooted...
Another April 10th anniversary – still waiting for justice As Gambians and people of conscience all over the world mark the 13th anniversary of the April 10 and 11 student demo which was brutally suppressed...	Some Pertinent Lessons of the Local Government Elections While most Gambians have now given up any participation in all elections as being just another ritualistic exercise in futility, whose real impact on...
The rise in violent crime – some lessons for President Jammeh While as usual, President Yahya Jammeh’s state of the nation address delivered at the National Assembly on 28th March no doubt contained some...	Fatou Bensouda v. Uhuru Kenyatta - Round 2 Editor, Remember when I wrote you an exclusive last month in the following words? “I can absolutely guarantee you that Uhuru Kenyatta will never...
Fatou’s Bensouda’s Ventilation on BBC I like the way Fatou Bensouda spins stories to suit her own point of view. Today (22nd March) Fatou was on BBC’s Africa Today and the lady journalist...	Chasing Uhuru Kenyatta is a waste of time! ICC’s Fatou Bensouda Greetings, and in African tradition, I inquire after and wish all your family well. In that wish I include your relative and namesake Mr Bensouda,...
'I'm A Free Woman Now' Says Isatou In patriarch Gambia where women are traditionally viewed as an inferior sex always domestic violence perpetrator go free because of the dispaly...	WHAT A DIVIDED WORLD What a divided world, when the world collectively fought against Hitler to quell his belligerence and conquer Germany in the 40s,little did anyone...
Deyda Hydara: Eight Years of Impunity This is yet another anniversary of the assassination of prominent Gambian journalist, Deyda Hydara. It is eight years since he was brutally murdered...	Delegation of the European Union to The Gambia on the award of the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union For many the news from Oslo that the European Union had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2012 came as a surprise. Some believed it odd that...
LOOK, THE APRC GOVERNMENT CANNOT HAVE IT BOTH WAYS! I stand to be corrected but I believe the lovely ruling APRC (Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction) supporters in “Obamakunda” (USA)...	Bravo to the release of Janneh and Jasseh, but…… Of course every person of morality and conscience would welcome the decision by President Yahya Jammeh to ‘pardon’ Amadou Scattred Janneh and Tamsir...
FREEDOM FOR MEDIA IN AFRICA Public bodies hold information not for themselves but as custodians of the public good and everyone has a right to access this...	TRUE MUSLIMS SHOULD NOT RELATE RECENT EXECUTIONS OF NINE INMATES TO SHARIAH “Shariah’’ is the law regulating the way of life leading towards Allah. This law and way of life were revealed to man by Allah himself...
A Word for the Wise We, the careful observers around town and in society at large, are sometimes astonished by certain issues that unfold. With our...	OUR GAMBIA CANNOT AFFORD GLOBAL ISOLATION The Embarrassment Could Have Been Avoided Had The Office of The President Followed My Sincere Insights - Prince B.A. Sankanu, Cologne, Germany ...
Gambian Courts Possibly Not Competent in “All” Gambian Death Row Cases? Open Letter to Justice Minister, Lamin Jobarteh Dear Justice Minister Jobarteh, First of all, may I belatedly take this...	President Jammeh Defies the Whole World President Yahya Jammeh is no stranger to controversy which has eventually transformed him into being the ‘enfant terrible’ of the...
On Self-Reliance a letter to my son Igreet you brother of Latirr with the salutation of peace. I have written you many letters over the past decade, the first being the...	President of the Republic, You Must Not Kill Any More Gambia on wrong side of history Those familiar with the behaviour pattern of Yahya Jammeh know very well how he refuses to play by the...
Letter to Pres. Jammeh on death penalty issue 26 August 2012 REF: STAT/08(1)/12 SECRETARY GENERAL PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC ORGANISATION...	Tribute to Tabara Samba This year’s Eid-ul-Fitr (2007) feast was too melancholic for me to celebrate. Throughout the winding days of the holy month of fasting,...
Children Flock to Jesus for Him to Lay Hands on them Children are God’s precious gifts to mankind. They are to be cared for, cherished by the parents and families, and they are expected to be given a...	Message from Ms Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO on the occasion of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People, 9 August 2012 At a time when debate has opened on the contours of a new global sustainability agenda, the voices of indigenous peoples must be heard. Their...