Vol 66 No 19 | GAMBIA Barrow fires Auditor, shielding a ballooning family empire 17th September 2025 After being accused of favouring relatives and friends with state-backed rice deals and discounted bank sales, the President has summarily sacked the Auditor-General When police forcibly removed Auditor-General, Modou Ceesay from the National Audit Office on 15 September they triggered youth-led protests in which several demonstrators were arrested as fighting spilled...
Vol 62 No 4 | GAMBIAGUINEA BISSAUSENEGAL Sall roots out rebels 18th February 2021 Senegal's media eagerly showed footage of soldiers walking through rebel camps which the Senegalese army overran in the first week of February. Deserted kitchens, mostly old weaponry and...
Vol 46 No 6 | GAMBIA Cold murder trail 18th March 2005 Efforts to find out who murdered Deyda Hydara, Editor of The Point newspaper, on 16 December become more bizarre by the day. Gambian police arrested Wally Hakim Mahmoud,...
Vol 67 No 13 | ALGERIAMALIRUSSIA Moscow and Algiers agree that Goïta has got it wrong 16th June 2026 Russian and Algerian diplomats and spies agreed a year ago that the junta’s demonisation of the Azawad militants would fail In the wake of April’s attacks that killed Defence Minister Sadio Camara and sent junta leader General Assimi Goïta into hiding, it was with Russia’s ambassador in Bamako,...
Vol 48 No 12 | NIGERIARUSSIA Russian roulette 8th June 2007 The shooting dead of a Nigerian driver and kidnapping of six Russians from their compound in Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom, looks like an escalation in a complex feud...
