#GMBSolutions to #GMBProblems ‘New Gambia’ Imagine if every Online Radio highlighted one solution to a Gambian problem just once a month. This could be in the form of inviting a Gambian scholar, or anybody who feels passionate about a solution that the whole country can benefit from. Do we encourage enough Gambians (young and old) to prepare tailor made solutions for our homeland? Imagine if every Gambian involved in further education (both at home and abroad), did their thesis on solving a Gambian Problem? As a Gambian Citizen I’m concerned that we spend a significant amount of time focusing on the…
Author: Yusef Taylor
Yusef Taylor
Yusef Taylor, commonly known as Flex Dan is an editor and practising journalist based in the Gambia with a keen interest in human rights, the economy and good governance among many others. He continues to break news on the economy, human rights violations and is highly engaged in security sector reforms, constitutional reform and the transition of the Gambia from dictatorship to a democracy, the NewGambia. Yusef has been working with Gainako as a media practitioner from 2015 to date. He has a degree in Civil Engineering with 5 years of Design Consultancy experience.
News roundup 23rd June 2015 By Yusef Taylor, @FlexDan_YT If you don’t know yet Killa Ace dropped a Bomb on the day that the National Assembly Members (NAM) were expected to rubber stamp Electoral Reforms and expand the Death Penalty. Killa Ace is making waves in Gambia with a hot and ultra conscious new track “Ku Boka C Geta B”. The multi talented artist states that “as an Emcee it’s my duty to speak out” and boy did he let rip into the Gambian Dictator on the injustices facing the Gambian society. The track has got a trap influenced beat…
Rejoinder on April 25th UK Protest On April 25th 2015, in London, UK, Gambian civil society organizations will gather to hold public protests to commemorate the 15th anniversary of one of the darkest days in Gambian history: the student massacre of April 2000. On April 10 11 2000, the Jammeh regime opened fire on students who were peacefully protesting the rape of a 14-year-old student and the death of another at the hands of state security agents. By the 11th, a total of fourteen students were killed, including 6 young children. To this day, no one has been held…
Press Release – On April 25th 2015, in London, UK, Gambian civil society organizations will gather to hold public protests to commemorate the 15th anniversary of one of the darkest days in Gambian history: the student massacre of April 2000. On April 10 11 2000, the Jammeh regime opened fire on students who were peacefully protesting the rape of a 14-year-old student and the death of another at the hands of state security agents. By the 11th, a total of fourteen students were killed, including 6 young children. To this day, no one has been held accountable. April 10th –…