Politics

There comes a point when a government’s failures can no longer be dismissed as temporary challenges, technical difficulties or inherited problems. For many Gambians, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝. Across the country, prolonged electricity blackouts are disrupting businesses, households, education and healthcare. Families are losing food and electrical goods, businesses are losing income, and students are struggling to study. Yet while citizens struggle wi

National Unity Party (NUP) Party Leader, Secretary General and Standard Bearer Dr. Lamin J. Darbo has condemned what he described as “reckless” and divisive remarks made by Imam Daaru Sanyang in an audio recording currently circulating on social media. In a solidarity statement dated 27 August 2026, Dr. Darbo said he had taken note of an audio recording attributed to Imam Sanyang in which the imam allegedly called on Kanifing Municipal Council Lord Mayor Talib Ahmed Bensouda,

The photo below shows the road corridor running through central Gunjur, from the coastal road around Gunjur Lower Basic School, through the Gunjur market, and connecting to the Gunjur–Brikama Road. The current state of road running through central Gunjur. | Photo credit: Hatab Jobe The construction of this vital road was announced several years ago by the Government of The Gambia through the Ministry of Works. Earlier this year, there was renewed hope when construction equipm

The relay still signs. Part Two found it in the state's own record: the seyfo and the alkalo administer the land the state claims ownership of, and no transfer of it moves without their mark. The office that endorsed the Kombo Coastal Belt leases in 1970 endorses transfers today. It never stopped. Part One asked by what right the state claims the land. This essay asks the narrower question, the one that falls on the men whose mark moves the land. By what authority was their

By Dave Manneh, Securing Futures: Land Rights Action Collaborative (SFLRAC) August 10, 2026 On 22 and 23 July, at the DPPH hall on Marina Parade in Banjul, the Ministry of Lands convened a workshop on the legal review of The Gambia's land tenure and land administration laws. The consultant leading the review set out its purpose from the front of the room. The task, the slides said, is to 'harmonise and modernise' the statutes that govern land in The Gambia. Fragmentation acro

The APeX Secretariat has announced the conclusion of more than 18 months of coalition-building negotiations involving several opposition political parties and movements, culminating in the proposed formation of a new political coalition named CHANGE. According to a press statement issued on Sunday, 9 August, the coalition’s official name is CHANGE — Coalition for Hope, Accountability, National-renewal, Good-governance, and Equity. The negotiations facilitated by APeX involved

Carnegie Minerals has signalled its intention to resume legal efforts to enforce an unpaid international arbitration award against the Government of The Gambia, according to correspondence seen by Gunjur Online. In an email copied to Gunjur Online, Ty Ludbrook, Executive Director and Chief Operations Officer of Atlas Assets, informed Minister of Finance Seedy Keita that he had been advised Carnegie Minerals would restart proceedings in the English High Court to seek recogniti

Here is the uncomfortable truth about coalitions: they are rarely built on friendship. They are built on arithmetic. UDP is not my political home. I do not support the party, and I am unlikely to support it in the future. That is precisely why I think this deserves to be said without partisan emotion. If UDP has walked away from the coalition talks because it refuses to surrender leadership, I think the party may have made the right calculation. Consider what we often miss wh