Tuesday, November 24, 2020
by Alagi Yorro Jallow. Fatoumatta: The Gambia is locked in a political deathtrap. We are all notorious tribalists. It does not matter our level of education and world view. We are all in the gutter together. The university lecturer is as rabidly tribal as the village idiot. The stew of […]
by Alagi Yorro Jallow. Fatoumatta: Lawyers must stand up for what is true, what is honorable, what is right, what is pure, what is of good repute, what is excellent and worthy of praise; this is the transcendent essence of the lawyers’ oath. Fatoumatta: When judges and lawyers hesitate to […]
Stockholm, 4 September 2020: Today, my organization Action for Humanity has facilitated the repatriation of 38 Gambian women including two children from Beirut, Lebanon and have arrived in Dakar, Senegal en route to their respective homes in the Gambia. Action for Humanity paid for the air tickets of each of […]
Alagi Yorro Jallow. Let it be clear we unreservedly condemn the attack on Mr. Nyang Njie, for his freedom of expression and political views as a citizen. In a democracy, no one should be assaulted or violently attacked for his views, whatever they are. Disagree with your opponent, take on […]
by Alagi Yorro Jallow. Any plans for the Gambia government help bring our Gambian women subjected to slavery in Lebanon?. The Kafala system regulates the arrival and stay of migrant domestic workers across the Middle East. According to the International Labour Organisation, an estimated 250,000 migrant domestic workers live in […]
by Alagi Yorro Jallow. The allegations of torture and ill-treatment by the Gambia Police Force has once again given rise to the demand for a separate law against torture. It is, therefore, essential to examine whether the Gambia’s existing law is inadequate to deter incidents of custodial torture at prisons […]
Alagi Yorro Jallow. Part II. A hundred years from now, people are still going to be talking about President Yahya Jammeh. He recognized that, as a poster child, he had become a symbol in which larger social, economic, and political forces were condensed. As a person, Yahya Jammeh lived in […]
