To mark the eighth anniversary of the “disappearance of journalist Chief Ebrima Manneh”, the Gambia Press Union, GPU, issued the following statement: The Gambia Press Union (GPU) is concerned about the disappearance of journalist Chief Ebrima Manneh who went missing in July 2006. Following the disappearance of Chief Manneh, the Ghana based Media Foundation for West Africa instituted civil action against The Gambia Government at the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in Abuja. The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in Abuja, Nigeria, relied on evidence adduced by two plaintiff witnesses to deliver its verdict in the case. According to…
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The U.S. State Department’s Trafficking in Person’s (TIP) Report for 2014 that was released in June downgrading Malaysia, Thailand, Venezuela and The Gambia from Tier 2 to Tier 3, the lowest grading possible, has finally drawn a defiantly-worded reaction from the regime of Yaya Jammeh. The 2014 TIP Report described The Gambia as ” a source and destination country for women and children subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking”, the majority of whom are sexually exploited by European sex tourists. A German travel blog, Brothel Sex, has cited two night spots, “Wow” and “Totties” in the tourism area…
PRESS STATEMENT RELEASE THE IMAM AND ALKALO WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY GMC demands the immediate, unconditional release of Sheikh Muhideen Hydara, the Khaliph General of Darsilami Sangajor and BuyehTouray, the Alkalo of the same village in Foni Kansala District, West Coast Region. They have been arrested and detained since Tuesday, 29th July, 2014 and moved to different police stations for having observed Eid prayer on Tuesday and notMonday as announced by the Supreme Islamic Council. The arrest and detention of both men violate their fundamental constitutional liberties. The Supreme Islamic Council is not a creature of statute, nor is it funded from the…
HAPPENING NOW First look at The Washington Times’ dynamic new website U.S. health officials issued a travel warning Thursday for three West African nations as the death toll soared from an Ebola outbreak, while Obama administration officials downplayed the possibility that travelers could bring the virus to a U.S.-Africa summit President Obama will attend in Washington next week. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced an advisory against “non-essential” travel to Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, where the deadly disease has claimed the lives of at least 729 people and infected more than 1,300. The last time the federal agency issued such a travel warning was in 2003,…
Gainako can confirmed that a large entourage of Security personnel have arrived in Washington DC ahead of President Jammeh’s visit to the United States to attend the African leaders’ summit organized by the U.S President Barrack Obama. The security team is led by Ansumana Tamba who is the current head of the security services at the President’s office. Mr. Baboucarr Jobarteh who is also the head of the Protocol team is also reported to be accompanying the high level security team to Washington DC. Readers may recalled that Mr. Jobarteh was one…
Q. Mr. President. I’m from South Africa. Previously Nelson Mandela had inspired the foundation of the South Africa Fund for Enterprises. It has run for two decades, and it has since been stopped. Is there any chance to develop another fund for enterprises in Africa? THE PRESIDENT: Well, it’s a great question. One of the things that’s been interesting in not only some of the platforms that you developed at your universities, but also during my trips to Africa is the degree to which young Africans are less interested in aid and more interested in how can they create opportunity…
Reports reaching Gainako at this hour has it that an 80 year old religious Imam has been detained in Gambia since Tuesday July 29th, 2014. The Imam Sheriff Sheikh Muhidein Hydara the grand Imam of Dar Salaam Shangajor in the western region of the country was reportedly detained after he defied Presidential orders for Muslims in the country not to perform their Eid Prayers on Tuesday. He was reportedly transported from one police station to another to prevent his followers from knowing or gathering at his place of detention. The Imam was detained with several others across the Western…
A large number of Muslims in diverse places in the Greater Banjul Area were prevented by the security forces from praying on Tuesday, 29 July 2014, to mark the end of the Ramadan month of fasting. This development came on the heels of the announcement made by President Yahya Jammeh at state house on Monday, 28 July, during his meeting with the Banjul Muslim elders after the Eid el Fitr prayers and in which he asked the security to prevent anyone from praying the following day. This Foroyaa reporter was out and about to find out whether there were some Muslims who wanted to pray on Tuesday…
Commentary: In a second term, the President needs to do more to support African democracy By Alhagie Yorro Jallow NEW YORK, NY — There is a palpable thrill in Africa at the prospects of a second term for President Obama, even though in his foreign policy, Africa has not been a priority. Apart from visits to Egypt and Ghana, he has done little about the Malian meltdown, HIV-AIDS, education, small arms, rising food insecurity linked to global warming and South Sudan’s increasingly precarious status as it hovers near a new war with the North. Compared to his predecessors, presidents Clinton…
“THE GAMBIA IS MINE”, CLAIMED PRESIDENT JAMMEH OWLISHLY “DEKABI SUMA BOSS-LA”, President Jammeh told Gambians and the rest on the world in his televised Eid message broadcast on GRTS. Amazingly, all the state ministers and Islamic clerics sitting from across him sheepishly nodded their heads in approval to his claim of ownership of the Gambia. On the one hand, on a constitutional and legal point, one can dismiss his claim as preposterous and oafish. To better sculpt a colourful image of my exposition, I would sponge Wikipedia’s designation of the term country. Most importantly, it will help President Jammeh distinguish…