Africa, World

Last year, Camille Liu's future was looking good. He had met a woman - "a perfect match" – while working in Mozambique as an electrician. They fell...

The world-famous Gambian cultural extravaganza known as the Futampaf (initiation) took place on Thursday at President Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh’s home  ...

Dr Aja Isatou Njie-Saidy, vice-president and secretary of state for Women’s Affairs on Friday, received Archbishop Cardinal Theodore Adrien Sarr of...

According to the French News Agency (AFP), a Gambian couple were on Friday, charged by the Norwegian  police for subjecting five of their daughters...

Unimpeachable sources informed the Daily Observer about a heavy-handed brutal killing of one Adama Sonko at Berending Village in Lower Niumi, North...

The Association of Non- Governmental Association (Tango) Thursday elected its new board of directors during a general meeting held at its secretariat...

(Edited by Dida Halake for Progressive Africans, Sep 2, 2006) (Italicized comments in brackets are by Dida Halake) "Colonial domination...

We wish to revisit the state of preparedness of our drainage systems, gutters and  water-ways as the rains will not wait and what we uncover is...

Its rulers were ordained into office by the king of Manding, but as the Manding Empire declined during the 15th century the Kaabu Empire became...

(1976: the Year of Soweto’s youth and the beginning of the end for Apartheid) A personal appreciation by Dida Halake, Daily Observer, 2006, ...