(JollofNews) Gambia’s ousted ruler Yahya Jammeh has used the country’s feared National Intelligence (NIA) to spy on President Adama Barrow and his colleagues during last year’s presidential elections, a report into the conduct of the agency says. According to the report, an unamed NIA officer on study leave was planted[Read More…]
Year: 2017
Banjul Letter With Njundu Drammeh: We Must Not Forget
(JollofNews) – General Wellington to his men at the Battle of Waterloo “forward, all over the line”. “Forward all over the line” too to all of us. Let the incident of Kanilia and the “darkness” that is NAWEC make us forget that we have Jammeh victims who need remembrance, support,[Read More…]
Gambia Charges Foni Protesters With Unlawful Assembly
(JollofNews) – Authorities in the Gambia have slapped criminal charges against 13 residents of Foni involved in Friday’s protest against the militarisation of the community. The protesters are accused (under archaic’ British colonial law) of unlawful assembly, incitement of violence, riot and conspiracy to commit misdemeanor. They denied the allegations[Read More…]