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Kenneth Y Best Founder, Daily Observer

 By Sheriff Bojang Jr The Daily Observer has been in the news for the past two weeks for all the wrong reasons. The Gambia's leading...

Omar Bun Jeng: Ace preacher

By Omar Jabang According to excerpts from his biography being kept by his son in his homestead in Gunjur, the ancestors of Omar Bun Jeng...

Kenneth Y Best Founder, Daily Observer

The Daily Observer has been in the news for the past ten days for all the wrong reasons. The Gambia's leading daily was closed...

Seedy Njie: APRC Spokesman

 Alagie Manneh Adored by APRC vanguards and hated with passion by all other Gambians who oppose former president Jammeh's stranglehold onto power, Seedy Njie, is...

Babou Ceesay:Top British Gambian actor

In mid-April nominees for the 2017 British Academy's Television Awards were announced. Among them was Babou Ceesay, star of Showtime and Sky Atlantic's drama...

Salieu Taal: Chairman,’Gambia Has Decided’

By Alagie Manneh Salieu Taal, Esquire, is one of the most successful young lawyers in the country and has won praise and respect in many...

Book titled President Barrow launched

By Omar Bah   The Minister of Women's Affairs overseeing the office of the Vice President, Fatoumatta Jallow-Tambajang over the weekend launched a book titled...

Former Observer journalist talks about Chief Manneh

Pa Ousman Darboe was a senior reporter at the Daily Observer. He claimed to have been an eyewitness to the arrest and subsequent disappearance...

Momodou Cadi Cham

Former Minister, Tumana politician In this edition of Bantaba, firebrand politician and former Tumana Member of Parliament in the PPP government, talks to Ebrima Baldeh...

Baba Leigh

Imam, Kanifing East Mosque One of the defining characteristics of President Yahya Jammeh's 22-year rule over The Gambia was a widespread fear of speaking out....

Legal analysis of the Gambia’s 2017 National Assembly election results

On Thursday 6th April 2017, The Independent Electoral Commission (I.E.C.), under the able Chairmanship of Mr. Alhaji Mommar Njai, competently conducted The Gambia's National...

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Gap Accuses Barrow Of Using Tour To Consolidate Support

By Omar Bah General Lamin Bojang, the leader of opposition Gambia Action Party has accused President Adama Barrow of using his constitutionally mandated meet the...

Nothing can stop Jammeh’s return

Even after the Gambia Government said any suggestion that former President Jammeh will return to the Gambia soon is false, APRC interim leader Fabakary...

Nfally Fadera appointed OIC communications director

By Tabora Bojang Nfally Fadera has been appointed as the Head of Communications at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Gambia Secretariat, the body coordinating preparations...

Witch doctors cause 18 deaths in Jambur

By Mafugi Ceesay A senior citizen, Abdoulie Bojang from Jambur, has told the TRRC that 18 out of 62 people from his native Jambur accused...

GPU condemns attack on journalists covering president’s nationwide tour

Press release The Gambia Press Union has been informed of a disturbing news from journalists covering the ongoing Meet the People’s Tour of President Adama...