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  By Sheriff Saidykhan  Gambia Participates (GP) a civil society organization set up to investigate corruption in The Gambia has said in its statement marking the international Anti-corruption Day that anti-corruption efforts progressing at a snail's pace in The Gambia.  Gambia Participates  has join the rest of the world to commemorate the international Anti-corruption  Day held on Friday 9, December 2022.  The day is set aside to raise awareness against corruption, and to device measures geared towards combating it globally.  In its statements on Twitter Gambia Participates has observed that anti-corruption efforts still progressing at a snail's pace in The Gambia.  “We would like to reiterate the slow anti-corruption efforts in The Gambia. One of the key missing puzzles in the Gambia's transitional justice process is anti-corruption legislation and government-led action-oriented efforts to prevent, detect and sanction corruption acts” the statement said.  The 2018-2021 N

  By Sheriff Saidykhan Imam Bakawsu Fofana, the renowned Islamic scholar has called on African leaders to fight and eradicate hunger, amid the price hike of basic commodities in the markets. He made these remarks on Friday in his sermon at Casamance. “I am calling the African leaders, including President Macky Sall of Senegal, President Adama Barrow of The Gambia and Umaro Sissoco Embaló President of Guinea Bissau to fight and eradicate hunger as the way coronavirus was defeated,” he said.  He further urged African government's to bring economic experts in their various countries, and chart ways geared towards eradicating hunger.  “I am urging them to bring economic experts together, and critically look at the economy and device ways to end inflation and eradicate hunger,” he urged.   African leaders and ministers need to cut their salaries, this he said will create employment and enhance the living conditions of people.  “The salaries of President's can pay 100 people. So let

        By Sheriff Saidykhan The independent aspirant for the upcoming local government election in 2023 has unveiled his plans for the Chairmanship of Brikama Area Council (BAC). Ibrahim JS Sanneh, has urged his supporters to vote for him saying he is the only candidate with sound policies for the development of the West Coast Region. He made these remarks in an interview with The Outpost Media at his residence in Brikama. “I have plans to unite the members of the council in order to archive our collective goals, expand the markets and build store, provide storage facilities for women vendors, drill boreholes and empower women gardeners, build proper drainage systems, provide as many as possible trash bins and waste trucks to keep the environments clean and healthy, scholarships for the underprivileged, youths and women empowerment, promoting health, sports and musicians within the west coast region,” he posited. Poised to run under an independent ticket, this he believes will bring u

    By Sheriff Saidykhan    | Political Analysis of The Gambia and Senegal Country Risk Report 2022  | Fitch Solutions, a data analytical research centre  based in London has projected that Macky Sall, the President of Senegal’s coalition would likely lose power in the upcoming Presidential election in 2024.   The report, by projecting a stable policymaking trajectory for the next 10 years in The Gambia impliedly assumes that Adama Barrow, the President of The Gambia will remain in office for at least 2031.    The report indicated that the loss of the ruling party in Senegalese Parliament will constrain policymaking ahead stating that: " We at Fitch Solutions expect that the policymaking process in Senegal will slow, given that President Macky Sall's Benno Bokk Yaakaar coalition lost its  parliamentary majority in the July 2022 legislative elections…The declining popularity of Sall and his administration pose increased policy continuity risk following the 2024 presidential ele

                                 By Sheriff Saidykhan Fatoumatta Hydara, the mother of the two children that were killed in a flat fire incident in Nottingham, has died in hospital.  She was taken to the Queen's Medical Centre in Clifton after the fire incident on Sunday, but subsequently died on Tuesday 22, November 2022.  Both of her children, Neemah Drammeh, aged one and Fatimah Drammeh, aged three all of them died on Sunday.   A 31 year old man was arrested after the fire incident for suspicion of murder. This is a developing story...

  Yahya Sonko      OUR AFRICAN HEAD OF STATES SHOULD START TO BLAME EUROPEAN UNION INSTEAD OF THEIR CITIZENS WHO ARE TAKING IRREGULAR MIGRATION TO LOOK FOR BASIC HUMAN NEEDS .  Reports from survivors relayed to IOM indicate that at least 252 people died during alleged forced expulsions by European authorities, also known as pushbacks, since 2021.Beyond a structural failure to provide adequate safe pathways, Missing Migrants Project records show that many of the deaths on migratory routes to destination countries in Europe could have been prevented by prompt and effective assistance to migrants in distress. As a Gambian German base migration activist, I am calling on my Government and other African heads to emulate Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo who in 2018 has expressed deep concerns over the cold-hearted treatment of African migrants in Europe.Ghanaian President did not mince words when he criticised the inhumane and abusive treatment of African migrants in Europe. He

         | UK Company directors, Wayne Hawkeswood and Graham Woodhouse found guilty of Health & Safety breaches linked to deaths of five Gambian men in 2016. | By Sheriff Saidykhan  Two company directors have been found guilty of safety failings after five Gambian agency workers at a metal recycling site were crushed to death when a 45-tonne wall collapsed in Nechells, Birmingham. A seven-week trial at Birmingham Crown Court was told the men died instantly while working in an area near the wall, which was holding back 263 tonnes of metal briquettes. Jurors were told the weight of metal, stored at a scrapyard in the Nechells area of the city, was equivalent to about six fully laden articulated lorries. Labourers Almamo Jammeh, 45, Ousmane Diaby, 39, Bangally Dukuray, 55, Saibo Sillah, 42, and Mahamadou Jagana, 49, were pronounced dead at the scene in July 2016. The Health and Safety Executive prosecuted Birmingham-based firms Ensco 10101 and Hawkeswood Metal Recycling, as well as di