The announcement of President Adama Barrow’s swearing-in was made via his Twitter account on Jan. 19. The general public was invited to the ceremony held at the Gambian Embassy on a narrow and dusty street in Dakar, Senegal. In the absence of…
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Lamin Yarboe, a young man in his late 20s, celebrated the end of a blockade to social media applications in The Gambia on Saturday morning, calling it “freedom in its entirety.” Some 48 hours earlier, as his country went through…
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In May 2010, The Gambia’s president, Yahya Jammeh, and Qatar’s emir sheikh, Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani, discussed “ties of cooperation” between the two countries at the Al Wajbah Palace. This discussion resulted in an agreement between their countries, signed by The…
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The recent 12-week-long border standoff between The Gambia and Senegal, mediated by the Economic Community of West African States, is a part of the contentious, ongoing Gambia-Senegal border issue. There have been six border closures since 2000, all of which…
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She was born a few weeks ago to freedom-loving parents. Her father gathered the courage to take to the streets to demand freedom and was arrested. Her mother, unable to sit at home with her husband imprisoned, goes to court…
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by Sanna Camara Independent media is the Gambian population’s last bastion of defense against tyranny and suppression. This form of media first developed after in 1888, after the European division of the kingdoms of the coastal West African region. It…
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