Gambia Archives | This is Africa https://thisisafrica.me/tag/gambia/ Opinion, Lifestyle, Arts, Music #TIA Wed, 30 Mar 2022 09:59:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://i0.wp.com/thisisafrica.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-logo-512x512-2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Gambia Archives | This is Africa https://thisisafrica.me/tag/gambia/ 32 32 67616479 Human Rights is a sham: A dispatch from the Neocolonial state https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/human-rights-is-a-sham-a-dispatch-from-the-neocolonial-state/ https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/human-rights-is-a-sham-a-dispatch-from-the-neocolonial-state/?noamp=mobile#respond Thu, 24 Mar 2022 14:51:28 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me/?p=69940 A reminder to Africans on the imperative need to move beyond the liberalist mere discourse of rights, towards an objective and concrete overhaul of their material condition. Alieu Bah here used his country, The Gambia as a pretext as to the failure of that liberal Democratic model and contemplating the complicity of the new kind of African activist in this scheme of neocolonialism.

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]]> https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/human-rights-is-a-sham-a-dispatch-from-the-neocolonial-state/feed/ 0 69940 The Gambia’s 55-year-old marbles voting system is simple but difficult to cheat https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/the-gambias-55-year-old-marbles-voting-system-is-simple-but-difficult-to-cheat/ https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/the-gambias-55-year-old-marbles-voting-system-is-simple-but-difficult-to-cheat/?noamp=mobile#respond Wed, 08 Dec 2021 10:22:49 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me//?p=69445 The Gambia has a unique system of voting that does not involve the use of paper ballots in casting votes – instead it uses marbles.

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]]> https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/the-gambias-55-year-old-marbles-voting-system-is-simple-but-difficult-to-cheat/feed/ 0 69445 Africa’s attempts to abandon practice of presidents for life suffer another setback https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/africas-attempts-to-abandon-practice-of-presidents-for-life-suffer-another-setback/ https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/africas-attempts-to-abandon-practice-of-presidents-for-life-suffer-another-setback/?noamp=mobile#respond Mon, 17 Aug 2020 08:17:26 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me//?p=67740 African countries need to make a concerted effort to establish a continental two-term policy.

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]]> https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/africas-attempts-to-abandon-practice-of-presidents-for-life-suffer-another-setback/feed/ 0 67740 Why the Gambia’s plea for the Rohingya matters for international justice https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/why-the-gambias-plea-for-the-rohingya-matters-for-international-justice/ https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/why-the-gambias-plea-for-the-rohingya-matters-for-international-justice/?noamp=mobile#respond Wed, 15 Jan 2020 08:28:54 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me//?p=66775 The Rohingya case before the International Court of Justice is politically and legally significant.

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]]> https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/why-the-gambias-plea-for-the-rohingya-matters-for-international-justice/feed/ 0 66775 Why The Gambia is suing Myanmar for genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/why-the-gambia-is-suing-myanmar-for-genocide-against-the-rohingya-muslim-minority/ https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/why-the-gambia-is-suing-myanmar-for-genocide-against-the-rohingya-muslim-minority/?noamp=mobile#respond Fri, 15 Nov 2019 09:05:18 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me//?p=65423 The Gambia successfully filed a case at the International Court of Justice on behalf of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation that accuses Myanmar of a genocide campaign against the Rohingya Muslim minority.

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