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Muddy Waters of Female Circumcision in Islam 

By Momodou Buharry Gassama, Stockholm, Sweden The current...

Fighting for Democracy and Diversity are Worthwhile

 By Tumbul Trawally, Seattle, U.S.A  Narcissists do not...

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The Indispensability of Strong Government Institutions in Democratic Governance

By Tumbul Trawally Seattle, USA To those who second-guess or question the importance of having strong government institutions in term-limited democracies—the political impasse in Senegal, and its resolution in a...

Muddy Waters of Female Circumcision in Islam 

By Momodou Buharry Gassama, Stockholm, Sweden The current debate surrounding female circumcision, also known as...

Fighting for Democracy and Diversity are Worthwhile

 By Tumbul Trawally, Seattle, U.S.A  Narcissists do not have the ability to self-reflect; cannot see...

The Vanguards of the Paradigm Shift against their Intellectual Progenies—Part 7

By Musa Sanneh From July 29th to 31st, 2023, PDOIS held its "midterm congress" in Penchami...

The PDOIS Heresy—Part 3

By Musa Camara  The People’s Democratic Organization for Independence and Socialism (PDOIS) is preparing to hold...

The Election is Now Over, it’s Time for Reconciliation and Development

   The Election is Now Over, it’s Time for Reconciliation and Development    By Tumbul Trawally, Seattle, USA  Mr. President, now that the Courts have certified your victory...

The UDP Election Petition is a Seminal Case for our Elections Jurisprudence

By Sarjo Barrow, Esq.  Introduction UDP petition is suitable for The Gambia. Although hindsight is not 20/20, after a thoughtful analysis and comparing the trends in...

The Gambia Our Home Land!

By Sajor Barrow Significantly, after the general voters’ registration, no party contested the final result at the revising court (meaning you've all acquiesced to the...

Jammeh’s Snub is good for President Barrow

By Muhammed Waliyu Touray When Alagie Kijera, the Netherlands-based former president of Barrow Fans Club rejected the NPP/APRC alliance on moral grounds and left NPP...

The Legacy of Pa Nderry Mbai

By Madi Jobarteh ‘Pa Nderry Mbai’ is a name that will continue to live long with Gambians. For both good and bad. There is no...

A Mother’s Questionnaire for Presidential Candidates

By Lamin Fatty Dear Adama, Abdoulie, Essa, Halifa, Mama and Ousainou, My mother, Mariama Jaiteh, would like to get your written responses to the following. The...

Road to the State House is no Way a Cakewalk

By Fatou Jaw Manneh  Alhamdulillah that nominations have gone smoothly as they are now over. The road to the State House to fix The Gambia...

Releasing a Mere Press Statement Confirms Non-solidarity with Jammeh’s Victims

By Madi Jobarteh On 15 October 2018, President Adama Barrow launched the TRRC. In his launching statement, he said, “the TRRC was born out of...

ECOMIG Troops Should Leave, now!

By Madi Jobarteh The presence of ECOMIG in The Gambia is a matter of international agreement under the purview of Section 79(1)(c) of the constitution...

The APRC Should not be Celebrated and Embraced

By Madi Jobarteh The fence sitters and the cheerers of poor leadership and their anti-accountability desperados have started whining since September 5 trying to use...

U.S. Withdrawal of Troops from Afghanistan is a Grave Mistake

By Tumbul Trawally, Seattle, U.S.A. We will be haunted by the sight of Afghan young men holding on to the fuselage of a plane taxiing...

Tulun Bayo Datita

The Presidential Elections Circus has Begun “Chop their rice, vote your conscience" By Ousainou Mbenga Those of us who had rural or semi-rural upbringing will recall the...

On the Perils of the Divisive Politics of a Beleaguered Nation

By Abdullah Samateh My attention has been drawn to a video clip that captured a portion of the meeting recently held by the President Barrow with...

The Arms of Justice

By Hamad Sallah The long arms of justice have finally caught Yankuba Touray—a member of the default Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council (AFPRC). On July...

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