Freedom Newspaper

Why Complicity and Profit from Slavery ? Unsung African heroine’s domestic workers made into Slaves in the Middle East: Alagi Yorro Jallow The infelicitous ‘sad truth’ of our unsung African heroines hired as domestic workers still face 'abuse and fraud' who are marooned in the Gulf countries – deprived of freedom, human dignity and the money they moved abroad for – is...

FOLLOW THE MONEY: CORRUPTION COULD DROWN GAMBIA Mining data is as difficult in the Gambia as mining gold in a war field. Freedom of information is a fundamental human right and the benchmark of all freedoms to which the United Nations is sanctified. One of the main reasons why Gambians supported the coalition was due to the agonizing political...

The Gambia’s New Normal Culture of Lassitude: Alagi Yorro Jallow NO nation prospers by encouraging its citizens to get rich without hard work. No nation excels through (rent collection) system. There cannot be a nation of moral giants where truth’s street value takes a seat behind equivocation. A nation where politics is a full-time job is assumed doomed from the beginning.   The...

SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND THE CALL FOR A ‘#METOO MOVEMENT’ IN THE GAMBIA. BY BULLI SOWE Labour Act defines sexual harassment as any unwelcome, offensive or importunate sexual advances or request made by an employer or superior officer or a co-worker, whether the worker is a man or woman.Men are no exception to this but in most cases it is the women...

President Barrow Welcomes France Agriculture Plans in The Gambia State House, Banjul, 17th October 2018 – His Excellency, President Adama Barrow has lauded the initiative of the French government to invest massively in Agricultural commercialization and mechanization, stressing that value addition in agricultural production will greatly contribute to food security in the country. The President made the remarks during a closed-door...