Is a new mood developing in the country for peaceful settlement...
The constitutional position of the outgoing president is the claim that the courts will determine whether inauguration will take place or not. The constitutional...
Governance by relying on Institutions creates Certainty in Outcome
Africa is struggling to put an end to personality centred governments and build institution centred governments. A personality centred government leads to the centralisation...
THE BATTLE AGAINST THE MEDIA HOUSES
When one is not convinced of one’s ability to combat ideas with ideas, one must resort to suppressing freedom of expression and freedom of...
Is GRTS the State Broadcaster giving balanced political reporting?
The fact that no Gambian can put under the carpet is the existence of an incoming and an outgoing administrations.
GRTS is giving coverage to...
One sided post electoral reporting by GRTS
The national broadcaster is outdoing itself in suppressing divergent views and dissenting opinion and fully transformed into a propaganda machine of the loser of...
GRTS in sharp focus
The national broadcaster appears to be suffering from political fixation. The Gambia has gone through a campaign period which was marked by massive mobilisation...
What is the status of the “#GambiaHasDecided” T-Shirts?
Confusing information has reached Foroyaa regarding the staus of the “#GambiaHasDecided” T-shirts. A number of people were arrested in connection with the T-shirts but are now...
NEW YEAR, OLD HABIT
2017 is a New Year. It came with political transformation of the country from one executive authority to another.
Currently there is an impasse between the...
THE SECOND MOST IMPORTANT INSTITUTION IN THE COUNTRY CALLS FOR DIALOGUE
The National Assembly, the executive and the judiciary are the three most important institutions in the country.
Executive power is moving into the hands of...
IEC STAFF TO RESUME WORK
The announcement made for the IEC staff to resume work tends to go against an earlier decision to occupy the Election House grounds by...
A NATION IN WAITING
The clock is ticking by the seconds, minutes and hours. Months are being reduced to weeks of expectations of peaceful transfer of executive power....
THE FINE LINE OF PEACEFUL TRANSITION OF POWER
For the first time in Gambian history the country has an outgoing and an incoming government. Where the powers of the outgoing government end...
THE GAMBIA CAPTURES WORLD ATTENTION
The presidential election on the Gambia has been capturing world attention. At first many observers of the political situation in the Gambia wrote that...
PRESIDENT JAMMEH ON THE ECOWAS COMMUNIQUE
A proper reading of the ECOWAS Communique reveals two complimentary intentions that should be noted by President Jammeh, in particular, and the Gambian population,...
Members of the National Assembly Pass Tertiary, Higher Education Bill, 2016
By MUHAMMED S. BAH
Members of the National Assembly, on Tuesday, 20 December, 2016 passed the Tertiary and Higher Education Bill of 2016.
Tabling the bill...
Does APRC support a smooth transition or a chaotic one?
Ghana is going through a smooth transition of power. The incumbent lost the election and is willing to hand over in a month following...
THE GAMBIA IN WAITING
After the declaration made by President Jammeh that he has nullified the election and that Gambians will go back for election, many soldiers were...
ECOWAS and the Gambian situation
ECOWAS comprises 15 states namely Cape Verde, Senegal, The Gambia, Mali, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote D’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin,...
WHEN WILL PRESIDENT-ELECT ADAMA BARROW ASSUME OFFICE?
According to the national media, President Jammeh is supposed to have assumed office on the 19 of January 2012. He is supposed to serve...
CONFUSION CAUSED BY FALSE ANNOUNCEMENT OF Barrow’s CABINET
Telephones have been ringing to express congratulatory messages to people who are thought to be appointed as Vice President and Ministers in Barrow’s Cabinet....
