Every citizen must empower themselves with the understanding that a candidate's ethnicity will not lower the about 75 percent debt-to-GDP, nor will their personality reduce the cost of imported rice.
The Gambia’s story isn’t only unfolding within its borders. It is also being shaped in living rooms, bank queues, group chats, and boardrooms around the world. People who may never return permanently continue to contribute—not because they are waiting for recognition, but because home, for many of us, is carried, not claimed.
In essence, while the spirit of reform and the commitment to women’s rights remain, the path has proven more challenging than anticipated. The fight for true gender equality and comprehensive justice for past wrongs is an ongoing process that requires constant vigilance and renewed efforts.
By R. Carl Paschall, U.S. Ambassador to The Gambia For the first time in more than a generation, Gambians are presented with an intimidation-free election, having embraced the democratic freedoms ushered in after they courageously cast their marbles in December 2016 to demand peacefully at the ballot box a break with the past. Even a casual observer can’t miss the energy and excitement – and, yes, tension – with a crowded political field of candidates vying to make their case to the voters of why theirs are the best ideas to move The Gambia forward in rule of law-based democratic governance, respecting citizen’s fundamental...
By Dr. Muhammed B. Jaiteh and Dr. Ebrima S. Njie We have keenly read the above article that you published on your website on August 27, 2021. While we acknowledge your efforts to establish accountability, we also see it necessary to address certain claims that the said article made reference to concerning our person. In the report, one Isatou Jobe –the First Secretary at the Gambian Embassy in Turkey—claimed that Dr. Muhammed Jaiteh and some other Gambians demanded commission as part of transactions in the buildup to the deal. It further brought Dr. Ebrima S. Njie under the spotlight by referencing...
Kunta Kinteh is alive but not safe and sound, said social commentator Alagie Jinkang. Jinkang is a PhD candidate at the Department of Law of the Universitá degli Studi di Palermo.
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