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DUMPED IN BRIKAMA BA: THE BLOODY STRANGER’S SHUTTLE INTO CASAMANCE AND THE GAMBIAN PROVINCES I wanted to fly back to Europe on Friday November 23rd 2012 either from Banjul or Dakar to attend a very important meeting from November 24th to the...	KISSY KISSY MANSA Gambia Executions: ‘Murder’ or Lawful Killing? In the village of Sittanunku, in northern Gambia, Lamin F. Jammeh was being eulogised with little ceremony. “It is weeks since he was...
Enter Ramadan: The Gully-Gaza Rivalry Persists The ‘Dagit’ On the countdown to Ramadan, ‘Outasses’ had grabbed the airwaves. The air was filled with pleas for the business community to...	The Debate Continues Now that the twenty persons accused of committing unnatural offence by engaging in alleged homosexual-like behaviors have all been set free, the...
Fatou Bom’s Justice - No Pick-and-Choose p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } Refusing to play oblivious to accusations of selective justice, Hague-based ICC’s new chief prosecutor, on...	Gambia A tale of two Nations in one Country Even a superficial look at available statistics reveal that Gambians are growing less, producing less, earning less and eating less than they used...
Keeping the Ji-bindaa Alive in ‘Modern’ Gambia Although he was born and bred in a Kombo Central village a rural setting, Louie P Mendy, 20s, did not enjoy the delights in drinking from the chilly...	Inspired to Take a Stance Against Child Sex Tourism Yes there are ethics in tourism and there are laws that protect children from irresponsible tourism. Yet child sex tourism is unabated in The Gambia,...
Yousou N’Dour Dances, But to the Tune of ‘Dirty’ Politics For 25- plus solid years, the undisputed king of Mbalax has been signing songs that appeal to the world. That was thought to be his destiny. He...	Victory against the ‘Four Fold Damocles’ Perhaps because it involves a former speaker of parliament or maybe it involves a government-aligned newspaper. Or maybe because the claimant is an...
2011: The Year of Living Very Dangerously But that was how Laurent Gbargbo himself came to power. Matter-of-fact, as a then-opposition figurehead, he directed Ivorians to take to the streets....	2011: The Year of Living Very Dangerously 2011 has been a king-destroyer year, but whether or not 2012 will be equally brutal on despots will depend a lot on the attitude of governments towards the masses as well as the environment.
The Bitter Pill Two years after the state-backed witch–hunting exercise, the survivors are battling against failing health status to re-build their shattered lives....	Mecca Sneezes, Gambia Catches Cold With the GRTS Friday Dec.2 evening broadcast that Sunday Dec.4 would mark ‘Yawmul Ashura’, Mba Fatoumata Jabbi Ceesay, 40, was put to...
Victory in the Air Gambians, oppressed, hungry, witch-hunted, and persecuted, are going to the polls tomorrow to elect a president. Yet, the man at the centre of all...	This isn’t about journalists, its about our rights [endif][if gte mso 9] ...
Beyond the Moon If Allah had condemned Adama and Awa to earth for eating the forbidden fruit in Heaven, are Gambians punishing their Islamic religious leaders for...	Things Fall Apart: Darboe Explains Juwara is irrelevant In spite of his shocking political u-turn, Lamin Waa Juwara, leader of dormant ruling-party-aligned opposition-NDAM never misses...
‘Ke-kendo!’ ‘Ke-kendo,’ is a flattering remark in local Mandinka language use to compliment a person for job-well-done. But journalist Dodou Sanneh has been made...	President Jammeh Owes Manneh Family an Explanation Whether it was a slip of the tongue or an informed statement, Gambian president Yahya Jammeh’s suggestion that missing Gambian journalist Ebrima...
Unforgettable London Lesson “Our country is an extended home that we share with millions of others. So respect those you share this country with – please keep it clean,” says...	What a World So Unfair To Women A book club on the verge of turning itself into a life transforming body of volunteers led by Cindy Gregg has made a follow-up fact finding mission...
Water for Women Gardeners Could Improve Lives in Mandinaring Ah! It appears that people are easily inspired these days. For instance, the popular protests sweeping across North Africa and Middle East were...	Water for Women Gardeners Could Improve Lives in Mandinaring It appears that people are easily inspired these days. For instance, the popular protests sweeping across North Africa and Middle East were...
Our Journey is So Far So Good “Despite entering a crowded newspaper market, The Daily News quickly establishes itself as the primary source of information in almost all...	Rebels at the Centre The three-decade long unrest in the southern Senegal, Casamance, has been at the crux of decades of thawing relations between Senegal and The...
Jawara Accuses Ghadafi of Masterminding Kukoi-Led 1981 Bloody Coup Assault The regime that the Libyan leader Muar mar Ghadafi was bent to tear-down by allegedly sponsoring a bloody rebel attack is no longer in power. But...	Jawara Accuses Ghadafi of Masterminding Kukoi-Led 1981 Bloody Coup Assault The regime that the Libyan leader Muar mar Ghadafi was bent to tear-down by allegedly sponsoring a bloody rebel attack is no longer in power. But...
A Hand of Destiny If Mr Jallow had not pressed hard for me to return to Banjul (then Bathurst), I would possibly have gone do ‘dara’ to acquire Quranic/Islamic...	After the Floods "But with all the millions worth of valuable items disbursed to help the disaster victims, coupled with years of devising strategies, Amie’s priority...
The Clock is Ticking Anti-Clockwise Unimpeachable reports have proven contrary to the sing-song that generally, the lot of Gambians has bettered over the years. Infact going by these...	Protests Against Jammeh Wearing Emperor Bokasa’s Boots It’s a familiar phenomenon in Africa where military messiahs have taken upon themselves the role of watchdogs, accusing the political class of bad...