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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…

The three fishmeal factories in Kombo South have a combined demand of 75 million kilos of fish a month. In this story, Kerr Fatou follows disputes between the natives of the Kombo South and the fishmeal factories and mining companies.…

By Prince Bubacarr Aminata Sankanu, Researcher on Contemporary History and Politics specializing in slavery abolition in West Africa Question: do you believe that people who trust each other will be humiliating each other, destroying…

By RFI’s Daniel Finnan It was the first time Hassan Jallow crossed the Gambia River. The young man had never traversed the winding waterway that geographically divides The Gambia in two, nor had he ever encountered the internet. It was…

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…

Nko is an alphabet developed in Guinea Conakry seventy years ago under the shadows of foreign scripts but the suppressed alphabet is recently gaining popularity in West Africa. By Mustapha K Darboe When a Guinean scholar Sulayman Kanteh…

Mustapha K Darboe Gambia’s president Adama Barrow has inherited a number of things from his predecessor, an old school autocratic ruler Yahya Jammeh, among which, it appears, is his show of indifference to environmental protection,…