Sheriff Saidykhan In a press conference yesterday, Dr. Ismaila Ceesay, party leader and flagbearer of the Citizens’ Alliance (CA) confirmed that lawyers for his party have “already issued proceedings against the Independent…
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Peace Ambassadors Publishes Report on Presidential Elections Nomination Process
By Alimatou S Bajinka Peace Ambassadors the Gambia (PAG) in partnership with the National Democratic Institute (NDI) has recently completed an overall report on their findings and observations of the nomination…
COLUMN | Presidential Election 2021 Nominations & the Big Questions Emerging From it
|The Tricky Business of Relying on Military Junta Decrees to Organise Democratic Elections in a Post Dictatorship Era| By Pa Louis Sambou For anyone who’s had to await decision on…
COLUMN | Why We Must Not Weaponise Section 62 of the Constitution
|We should be easing, not unduly heightening pre-election tension| By Pa Louis Sambou As the Presidential election nears, section 62 of the Constitution appears to be attracting unprecedented level of…
COLUMN | The Irony of The Gambia – EU Deportation Ping-Pong
|A Classic Example of Mercenary Diplomacy and How Not to Conduct International Relations| By Pa Louis Sambou With Presidential elections barely two months away, visa restriction measures imposed against The…
OPINION | Reasoning an APRC/NPP Alliance
By Philip Saine (Contributing Author) On Thursday 2nd September, 2021 the National People’s Party (NPP) and the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) formed an alliance that seems not to be a popular initiative. The People…
COLUMN | Why President Barrow’s Threat To Go Rogue Constitute a Self-Inflicting Hinderance Rather Than a Help
By Pa Louis Sambou Continuous politicking is a permanent fixture in any democracy. Without such, there will be no democratic counterbalance to the incumbent, nor any mechanism through which the…
COLUMN | How Yankuba Touray’s Legal Adventures Upend Society and Spook the Constitution
By Pa Louis Sambou It is natural human reaction cum instinct to embrace any, if not the first conviction which comes by, following the occurrence of a crime. In this…
OPINION | “Doff Yi”: My Struggles with Depression
By Amran Gaye (contributing author) In 2011, while in college in the US, I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. It was a new label, for things I had always felt, as far…
COLUMN | A Nation Ripe for Change — Is a ‘TRRC Party’ the Silver Bullet?
By Pa Louis Sambou Since the disintegration of what was the Coalition, our political discourse largely revolved around the binary black and white worlds of President Barrow versus Lawyer Ousainou Darboe. Therefore,…