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Faraba Bantang: a cry of justice met with silence
Kerr Fatou revisits Faraba Bantang one year, six months after the deadly shootings by paramilitary officers that left 3 dead and over a dozen injured.
By Mustapha K Darboe
It is New Gambia, a term that suggests a new start for the small…
A father who comes home with a gift to find his son in mortuary
Two decades, two administrations— victims of April 10 and 11, 2000 student protest ask one question: Will there be justice?
By Mustapha K Darboe
On April 9, 2000, a break from the serenity Gambia enjoyed after the 1981 botched coup was…
Press statement by Gach Security on importation of guns into Gambia
Our attention has been drawn to reports doing media rounds of the interception by The Police of a container of firearms at the Seaport. Being the company at the center of these reports, we deem it necessary to release this statement to…
Six police charged with murder over Faraba killings
Six police officers have been charged with murder over the killings of 3 protesters in Faraba at the Banjul Magistrate Court on Thursday.
The officers who were charged with 3 counts of murder in connection to the Faraba incident denied…
Faraba Bantang fatalities a reminder of Gambia’s fragile transition
Monday was the saddest day of his presidency, said Adama Barrow of The Gambia, after three people were killed by security forces while protesting the environmental impacts of a sand mining company near the village of Faraba Banta. The…
New U.S. sanctions hits NAWEC’s collaborator Bazzi
Mohammad Ibrahim Bazzi, a Lebanese national and former ally of Yahya Jammeh, currently holds several business interest in Gambia including a generator with National Water and Electricity Company.
The United States sought on Thursday to…