COLUMNIST: MATHEW K JALLOW

More directly, the Gambia rsquo;s Yahya Jammeh poses an existential threat to Senegal, Guinea-Bissau and Guinea-Conakry; ...

Last week, Gambia suddenly burst out into the international limelight as the newest flashpoint of spectacular political ...

Even by Yahya Jammeh rsquo;s disgustingly low ethical standard, this has to be a recapitalization from his customary che ...

Since 2000, elections in the Gambia have been a recurrent exercise in futility and deception, with grave, real life cons ...

Border closures between neighbor countries happen rarely, and when they do, it is typically over issues of significant e ...

By Mathew K Jallow . In South Africa, the incessant political tremors surrounding Jacob Zuma rsquo;s incompetence, cen ...

Quite often, stories about the predatory nature of Gambia rsquo;s political system has all the hallmarks of medieval ...

Precedence to the Africa Union rsquo;s shameful failure to assist in ending Burundi rsquo;s gradual descent into bloody ...

In Africa, the tendency for totalitarian rule is as pervasive as change is dynamic. The two forces are locked in a co ...

The needless executions, in 2012, of twenty-six people, all of who were inmates at the scene of more than five hundred d ...

The anticipation was both joyous and widespread, but so also was the ambivalence and outright skepticism. If the rece ...

Senile octogenarians, youthful maniacs, barbaric psychopaths, and crude nitwits; they all share the same idiosyncrasies: ...

By Mathew K Jallow There were no rumors, no discussions, and not even official clues as to what was about to happen to ...

,It is an historic failure of epic proportions, which began gradually, but steadily metastasized into an abominable cult ...

After more than twenty years of tyranny, the single consequential blow-back on the Gambia rsquo;s murderous regime, unde ...

By Mathew K Jallow The statistics are striking, but far from shocking. For the decade and a half that I observed race r ...