By Talibeh Hydara, Ndey Sowe & Isatou Colley Adama Bah lives in a two-bedroom house in Sukuta, a large suburban town and a political powerhouse
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Soil for the elites
Despite the accompanying regulation of the 35–year-old State Lands Act legally restricting individuals to a single land allocation, systemic political patronage has enabled President Adama
The $165M Gambia-Sinohydro paper plant
In February 2017, President Adama Barrow took his vows in front of a packed Independence Stadium amid a wave of immense national optimism. Barely ten
The Republic, GPU roll out training on investigative journalism, elections reporting
The training, followed by mentorship from The Republic, is expected to strengthen accountability journalism in the country ahead of the presidential election. The Republic, in
From Gambia’s State House to Turkey’s ponzi theater & back
German national Rene Schwarze, who was implicated in the high-profile Gambian diplomatic passport scandal in 2021, has been briefly arrested by authorities after resurfacing last
One nest at a time: The march to save The Gambia’s green turtles
The boundary between survival and death for a green sea turtle along the Gambian coastline could just be twenty meters of the beautiful sandy beach.
Gambian President orders inquiry into corruption allegations against former army chief
Gambian President Adama Barrow has ordered the military to establish an independent Board of Inquiry (BOI) to investigate corruption allegations against former Army Chief Lt.
Duty & profit blur in Gambia’s military leadership
Documents, military sources, and photographs indicate that Gambia’s Chief of Defense Staff, Mamat Cham, has been operating a commercial fishing boat — crewed in part
Inquiry prompted by The Republic’s exposé indicts officials in ‘botched sale’ of ex–dictator’s assets
A Parliamentary inquiry which followed an investigative report by The Republic and three days of protest in May 2025, found that the process towards the
The Gambian widows of the Ukraine frontline
While Moscow and Kyiv debate the semantics of a ‘special military operation’ versus an all-out war, the reality in The Gambia is stripped of all