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President Jammeh’s Call for Accelerated Growth & Employment

During his address at the State Opening of the National Assembly on Friday 26th March President Jammeh disclosed plans of his government to launch the
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[Top News and Analyses] Can The APRC Center Continue To Hold?

Since the middle of last year when President Jammeh twice had to cancel trips to Kuwait and later the trip to the UNESCO assembly in ...
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[Top News and Analyses] President Wade’s Envoy Talks of Confederation, What Is Going On?

Well are we heading for another Senegambian confederation, another like the one branded “marriage of confusion” that ended abruptly at the end of the eighties? ...
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[Top News and Analyses] Femi Peters Trial: Kayode Raises the Stakes

It was drama again at the Kanifing Magistrates' Court on Wednesday March 17th, a dramatic unfolding of the chasm between two courts flexing muscles on their ...
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[Top News and Analyses] System of Executive Lawlessness In The Gambia

One can hardly take mercurial Gambian leader seriously nowadays. When he presided over the swearing-in-ceremony of six new judges recently President Jammeh advised the judges ...
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[Top News and Analyses] EPAs: Threat or Opportunity

For almost two weeks, a group of Gambian civil society organizations, including the National Youth Association for Food Security (NaYAFS), the Alliance for Food Security ...
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[Top News and Analyses] Femi’s Trial Is Trial of Free & Fair Elections

Hearing on the stay-of-proceedings appeal filed in by lawyer Ousainou Darboe on behalf of his client and party colleague, Mr. Femi Peters has been adjourned ...
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[Top News and Analyses] Nearly Forty Years with the IMF

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) at the end of February 2010 completed the sixth review of The Gambia’s economic performance under ...
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[Top News and Analyses] Violence against Women (wife-beating): A Bastion of Male-domination that must End

As I write this essay/ Op-ed, I am gripped by chilling memories of wife-beating in my childhood household, as well as other cases in neighboring ...
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[Top News and Analyses] What Chief Justice Agim Should Be Preaching Instead

When he spoke at a symposium organized by the Young Journalists Association of The Gambia (YJAG) on Monday 1st March, Chief Justice, Emmanuel Agim, went ...
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Of Foreign Investors & Conmen Part 2 of 2

But what goes around often comes around and President Jammeh has himself a record of outsmarting Gambians this way. Remember few days before
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Of Foreign Investors & Conmen Part 1 of 2

Another group of foreign “investors” are being paraded on national television as people interested in investing in The Gambia’s energy sector. At a
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Sleeping Dog Diplomacy

According to Gambian official news reports the Interior Ministry of The Gambia and the Italian Interior Department Public Security, on Thursday July 29th
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Sleeping Dog Diplomacy

According to Gambian official news reports the Interior Ministry of The Gambia and the Italian Interior Department Public Security, on Thursday July 29th signed a
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Go Tell Those Responsible

When he addressed a one-day retreat at Baobab Resort in Bijilo earlier this year in April Ousman Sonko, the Minister of the Interior and NGO
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Will Jammeh Let Lang Tombong & Others Go To The Gallows?

It has been more than three weeks since Justice Emanuel Amadi shocked the Gambian public by pronouncing the death sentence against former Chief of Defense
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What Is Fuelling Jammeh’s Anti-Western Harangues?

President Jammeh has always used July 22nd coup anniversary celebrations to lash out at his real or imaginary foreign adversaries, especially the British “imperialists and
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By Hindsight

Dear Editors,   Please allow me to remind readers of a three-part article published about a year ago in the web pages
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Too Much Cocaine for the Masses

Last Sunday July 18th the so called imam Ratib of Banjul presided over a session of special public prayers for the July 22nd “Revolution,” The
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July 22nd Anniversary: Celebration of Mishaps

Today marks the sixteenth anniversary of the so-called July 22nd revolution, a commemoration of the day when a band of unruly soldiers marched on State
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Essa Bokarr Sey