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10/12/2025

✊🏾 Aji Fatou Bah: “Rights Are Not Abstract Ideals”

Aji Fatou Bah of the Edward Francis Small Centre for Rights and Justice (EFSCRJ) delivered a joint statement on behalf of Gambians Against Looted Assets, Activista The Gambia, and EFSCRJ on International Human Rights Day.

She emphasized:
“Rights are not abstract ideals. They are the conditions that allow every human being to live in dignity, safety, and freedom.”

10/12/2025

Activista The Gambia: Up With Justice, Down With Poverty

Activista’s Ansumana Camara and Baboucar Nyang delivered welcoming remarks at a joint event organized with Gambians Against Looted Assets (GALA) and the Edward Francis Small Centre for Rights and Justice (EFSCRJ) on International Human Rights Day.

10/12/2025

📹 GALA: Corruption Is Stealing Gambians’ Basic Rights

During his statement on International Human Rights Day, GALA Secretary General Omar Sanyang highlighted how corruption robs Gambians of basic services and dignity.

For GALA, the fight against corruption is not just a technical or legal issue — it is deeply rooted in the daily struggles of ordinary Gambians.
When public resources are diverted into private pockets, communities pay the price:

1. hospitals without supplies,
2. schools without support,
3. and young people whose dreams are crushed by a system that fails them.

Activista The Gambia Gambians Against Looted Assets Edward Francis Small Centre for Rights and Justice

10/12/2025

🤳🏿 Minister Jabbi Questioned Over Delay in Lifting Data Price Floor

During follow-up questions in Parliament, Hon. Abdoulie Njai pressed the Minister for Communications and Digital Economy, Hon. Lamin Jabbi, on the ongoing PURA Data Price Floor.

Minister Jabbi revealed that his ministry wrote to PURA on 16 October requesting the price floor be lifted — prompting Hon. Njai to ask:
“Doesn’t this [data price floor] continue to affect the citizenry?”

Watch the Minister respond to follow-up questions from three parliamentarians.

10/12/2025

🤳🏿 Minister Jabbi Confirms Comium’s “Strategy Worked,” Forcing Cheaper Data Prices

The Minister for Communications and Digital Economy, Hon Lamin Jabbi told Parliamentarians that Comium’s market pe*******on strategy has paid off, making the company the second-highest in data traffic across The Gambia’s telecom sector.

Watch the full Q&A in Parliament — supplementary questions drop in the next video.

10/12/2025

📹 Minister Reveals: Govt Asked PURA to Lift Data Price Floor Since October

The Minister for Communications and Digital Economy, Hon. Lamin Jabbi, told lawmakers today that his ministry wrote to PURA on 16th October 2025 requesting the lifting of the Data Price Floor.

But in the same session, he also revealed that PURA is still finalising a study to set a new price floor and price ceiling for mobile operators.

The mixed signals raise a bigger question: Is PURA prioritising the cost of public services over the quality of public services?

Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy The Gambia Public Utilities Regulatory Authority - PURA

10/12/2025

10/12/2025

💸 FactCheck: Has the Barrow Government Disbursed Over D90 Million to Support Women Entrepreneurs?

During the widely watched Good Morning Show on the State Broadcaster, GRTS TV, on 1st December 2025, the Minister for Information, Media, and Broadcasting Services, Dr. Ismaila Ceesay claimed that President Adama Barrow’s government has disbursed over D90 million to different women via the Women’s Empowerment Fund (WEF).

Our reporter conducted budget research to verify this claim and ascertained that only D49.9 million was spent on the Fund from 2019 to 2024.

However, the Minister for Gender, Children, and Social Welfare, Hon. Fatou Kinteh told Parliamentarians in July 2024 that “from its inception to date, a total of D66,320,000 has been disbursed to women’s groups across the country and in all the regions.”

These are both less than the Information Minister's claim that over D90 million was spent on the WEF.

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10/12/2025

💸 FactCheck: Has the Barrow Government Disbursed Over D90 Million to Support Women Entrepreneurs?

During the widely watched Good Morning Show on the State Broadcaster, GRTS TV, on 1st December 2025, the Minister for Information, Media, and Broadcasting Services, Dr. Ismaila Ceesay, claimed that President Adama Barrow’s government has disbursed over D90 million to different women via the Women’s Empowerment Fund (WEF).

Our reporter contacted Dr Ceesay, the WEF and conducted budget research to verify this claim.

More in this FactCheck.

During the widely watched Good Morning Show on the State Broadcaster, GRTS TV, on 1st December 2025, the Minister for Information, Media, and Broadcasting Services, Dr. Ismaila Ceesay, claimed that President Adama Barrow’s government has disbursed over D90 million to different women via the Women....

09/12/2025

📹 Press Stop: All TRRC Victims from 1994 to 2017 Register Now for Reparations

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