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Muddy Waters of Female Circumcision in Islam 

By Momodou Buharry Gassama, Stockholm, Sweden The current...

Fighting for Democracy and Diversity are Worthwhile

 By Tumbul Trawally, Seattle, U.S.A  Narcissists do not...

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The Indispensability of Strong Government Institutions in Democratic Governance

By Tumbul Trawally Seattle, USA To those who second-guess or question the importance of having strong government institutions in term-limited democracies—the political impasse in Senegal, and its resolution in a...

Muddy Waters of Female Circumcision in Islam 

By Momodou Buharry Gassama, Stockholm, Sweden The current debate surrounding female circumcision, also known as...

Fighting for Democracy and Diversity are Worthwhile

 By Tumbul Trawally, Seattle, U.S.A  Narcissists do not have the ability to self-reflect; cannot see...

The Vanguards of the Paradigm Shift against their Intellectual Progenies—Part 7

By Musa Sanneh From July 29th to 31st, 2023, PDOIS held its "midterm congress" in Penchami...

The PDOIS Heresy—Part 3

By Musa Camara  The People’s Democratic Organization for Independence and Socialism (PDOIS) is preparing to hold...

Could Schools Bar Students from Wearing Hijab on Campus?

By Bubacarr Drammeh, Esq.  In my previous article, I explained why wearing of Hijab in public places is a religious injunction for Muslim women qualifying...

Wearing Hijab in Public Places is a Constitutionally Protected Fundamental Rights and Freedom 

By Bubacarr Drammeh, Esq.  “The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights,” Thomas Jefferson. The “Hijaab lawsuit” has befittingly...

The Validity of The Gambia’s Death Penalty Regime: A Question the Supreme Court Answered Incorrectly (Rejoinder)

By Bubacarr Drammeh, Esq., LLB, BL, LL.M. The release of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) ‘Advisory Note on the Abolition of the Death Penalty in...

The Returning Officer is Legally Mandated to Deny Momodou Sabally Nomination

By Bubacarr Drammeh, Esq., LLB, BL, LL.M. The rejection of the nomination of Momodou Sabally — the United Democratic Party’s National Assembly candidate for Busumbala Constituency...

The Chief Justice Must not Ouster the Courts

By Bubacarr Drammeh, Esq., LLB, BL, LL.M.   A letter with referenced REF:ZA227/261/01/ (254) dated 25th October 2021 and addressed to the President of The Gambia Bar Association, with the...

The Gambia is a “Shithole” Country

By Bubacarr Drammeh James Clear, a renowned author, states that "The Cardinal Rule of Behavior Change: What gets rewarded, gets repeated. What gets punished, gets avoided....

Section 34(6) Cannot be a Basis for Declaring a State of Emergency (Rejoinder)

By Babucarr Drammeh In his article published by The Gambia Times on June 12th, 2020, with the above title, Madi Jobarteh asserted thus: Section 34(6) is...

Lawyers Must Help to Contain the Spread of COVID-19 in The Gambia

By Bubacarr Drammeh According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the United States of America, the novel Coronavirus spreads in the following way:  Person-to-person...

Differential Treatment Under the Law is Unequal Protection of Rights

By Bubacarr Drammeh The Gambia Times has reported that the Attorney General and Minister of Justice of The Gambia is planning, on December 3rd 2019, to...

The State v Touray, Part 1: Qualified or Blanket Immunity

By Bubacarr Drammeh Numerous Gambians both within The Gambia and outside of its territorial jurisdiction were outraged by Yankuba Touray’s refusal to testify before the...

Ousainou Darboe is Constitutionally Barred from Contesting Future Presidential Elections as Candidate under the Current Constitution

By Bubacarr Drammeh The dismissal of Hon. Ousainou Darboe, the Secretary General of the United Democratic Party (UDP), was destined to happen. There has been...

The President Has the Power to Revoke the Appointment of Nominated Members of The National Assembly

By Bubacarr Drammeh As reported by some news organizations at the end of last week, one of the five nominated Members in the National Assembly,...

Lawyers are Society’s Problem Solvers, but not in The Gambia 

By Bubacarr Drammeh Let’s evaluate the legal fraternity of The Gambia on this concept. Throughout our history as a sovereign republic, when did The Gambia Bar Association,...

In The New Gambia: Freedom of Assembly and Demonstration—A Constant Return to Scale

By Bubacarr Drammeh The new Government — like its predecessor — continues to deny permits, arrest and kill protesters The continued denial of permits, the arrests,...

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