Gambia news, front pages compared
Crosswire tracks 4 major Gambia news outlets. Preview their homepages side by side below — switch between two, three and four columns, go compact, or translate every page into your language.
The Gambia media landscape on Crosswire
Crosswire lays the Gambia's front pages next to one another so you can see which stories lead where, how headlines are framed, and what one outlet foregrounds that another leaves out. Of the 4 titles tracked here, 1 lean left and 3 sit near the centre; Crosswire currently lists no right-leaning outlet in the Gambia, so for a contrasting perspective it is worth reading one of these beside a title from another country.
By kind of outlet, the 4 titles break down as 3 daily newspapers (The Point, The Standard and Foroyaa) and 1 digital-native outlet (Kerr Fatou). Crosswire lists no public-service broadcaster for the Gambia, so the fixed point in a comparison has to be a wire service or the most widely read daily instead.
The Gambia sits in West Africa, on Crosswire's Africa hub. By outlets tracked it is 8th of the 15 countries in West Africa and 21st of the 45 across Africa, where the average is 4 outlets per country. Its neighbours in West Africa with hubs of their own are Nigeria (5), Ghana (5), Senegal (4), Côte d'Ivoire (4), Burkina Faso (4), Niger (4), Guinea (4), Togo (4), Benin (4), Cape Verde (4), Mauritania (4), Mali (3), Sierra Leone (3) and Liberia (3).
Leaning groupings are approximate guides drawn from widely cited media-bias assessments — see the methodology and what the labels can and can't tell you. Counts are taken from the directory as of .
Which are the Gambia's main news outlets?
Across the Gambia's editorial spectrum, Crosswire currently lists on the left, Foroyaa; near the center, The Point, The Standard and Kerr Fatou. Each outlet below links to a full profile — its facts, editorial leaning and a live front-page preview — and the comparison view above shows any of them side by side.
The Point is a Gambian newspaper published in Banjul since 1991, co-founded by Deyda Hydara, the press-freedom figure assassinated in 2004, and Pap Saine. Appearing several times a week with a regularly updated website, it covers Gambian news, politics, business and sport and is one of the country's principal independent papers.
The Standard is a private Gambian newspaper founded in 2010 by journalist Sheriff Bojang. Based near Banjul, it was temporarily shut down under the Jammeh government before resuming publication, and today provides daily coverage of Gambian politics, society and sport, with an online edition that ranks among the country's most-read news sources.
Foroyaa is a Gambian newspaper published in Serrekunda and affiliated with the opposition People's Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism (PDOIS). Known for documenting detentions and rights abuses during the Jammeh era, it covers politics, human rights and social issues and remains one of The Gambia's longest-standing independent-minded papers.
Kerr Fatou is a Banjul-area online media house founded by Gambian broadcaster Fatou Touray. Combining a news website with widely followed video interviews and talk programming, it covers Gambian politics, current affairs and social issues, and has become one of the country's most prominent digital news platforms since the post-2017 media opening.
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