The Police have arrested 19 individuals for unlawful assembly at the Public Utility and Regulatory Authority (PURA) headquarters along the Kairaba Avenue. The group, identified as GOMSABOPA, staged on Friday, August 22, 2025, a protest against alleged mobile credit data deductions without applying for the required police permit. Police officers were dispatched to the scene…
United Democratic Party (UDP) members on Saturday marched against the government’s overseas issuance of national documents, condemning the process as a violation of the country’s laws. The march, organised by the party’s youth wing, drew a large number of supporters, including both the young and the elderly. Protesters held placards denouncing the process and used…
Hundreds of Gambians, including young people, students, politicians, civil society activists, and women, yesterday flooded the streets of Kanifing in a powerful display of civic defiance, demanding accountability, transparency, and justice across the nation’s institutions. Spearheaded by the youth-led movement Gambians Against Looted Assets (GALA), the protest saw marchers converge from Ice Man Junction to…
The Gambia Press Union (GPU) notes with concerns the arrest of two journalists and an attempt to arrest a third while they were covering a protest organised by a group of activists known as Gambians Against Looted Assets (GALA). The journalists, Sheriff Conteh of In-depth Media, Alieu Ceesay of Alkamba Times, were arrested in Banjul…
The Gambia Car Dealers Association is sounding the alarm over the central government’s failure to honour the allocation of a promised land in Yundum. They say the refusal to fulfill the promise threatens dealers’ livelihoods and the economic contributions of the car sales industry. The contested site, dubbed Car City, was designated for vehicle sales…
Concerned Gamcel staff have staged a protest demanding better working conditions and payment of their 2-month salaries from Gamcel management. The protest was held at the Gamcel head office along the Momodou Majang highway in Kanifing on Monday. Pierre Njie, the commercial clerk of the company, read the petition statement on behalf of the protesters…
