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Editor’s Welcome
January 9, 2019
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Opinion | How could Senator Kamala Harris be the most powerful U.S. VP ever
The Democratic Party presumptive nominee Joe Biden has chosen Kamala Harris for its candidate as his Vice President of the United States is formalised for November 3, 2020, Presidential election. However, this winning team also might be one of the most enlightened and creative political ploys of American history. A bicentennial celebration[Read More…]
Opinion
Opinion | It’s a toxic love story that will ruin your life
This is kind of a crude love story where the ending is not told at the end because frankly, we are still monitoring this relationship. I was talking to a friend of mine, about how human beings have this incessant need to do the opposite of what we are told. [Read More…]
Comment
Open letter to President Barrow: free journalists and allow all radio stations to resume broadcasting
Dear President Adama Barrow, Your election had raised high hopes of democratic change in The Gambia, and we would like to draw your attention to a recent arrest of media practitioners and journalists as well as the closure of two private radio stations. Mr.President, we are distressed to observe the[Read More…]
Africa
Guinea Bissau broadcaster Radio Capital FM vandalised
Authorities in Guinea Bissau should investigate the vandalism of broadcaster Radio Capital FM and hold those responsible to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. In the early morning of July 26, unidentified armed men in uniforms of Guinea Bissau’s national guard smashed equipment and other property at the[Read More…]
Culture
Jerri Jorr Ndella: the last Senegambia aristocrat to be executed by the French colonialists
We must refuse to let go of our rich history as there is a clear testimony that well before colonialism, our people were organised and they put in place their own democratic governance structures. They had the Lamans for example in Kayor from 1549 under the Jollof Empire. The many[Read More…]
Sport
Gambian football legend Biri Biri dies aged 72
Legendary Gambian footballer, Alhagie Momodou Njie, well-known as Biri Biri has died at the age of 72. Biri Biri was reported to have been battling with an unnamed illness. Mr Njie regarded as the Gambia’s greatest footballer to ever play the game was a star at home and abroad. The[Read More…]
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5 Facts You Don’t Know About The Gambia
Gambiana Presents Test your knowledge of The Gambia with these interesting facts about the Smiling Coast of Africa. Share
Business
Banks suspend Saturday hours due to coronavirus
Banks in Gambia have suspended Saturday services in a bid to control spread of coronavirus. The decision comes after the Bankers Association wrote to the Central Bank of Gambia to make the day a non-working day. The temporary suspension is expected to last during the 21 days nationwide curfew put[Read More…]
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