What has gone wrong? Fifteen months ago, people who were on the same side fighting dictatorship, tyranny, oppression and state high handedness are now apparently divided or polarised, engaged in open hostility here and in proxy war or shadow boxing there, disagreeing on the core human rights issues they had[Read More…]
Year: 2018
New York Letter With Alagi Yorro Jallow: Political Paranoia And The Public Order Act Is Tearing Gambia Apart
Fatoumatta: There’s a total abuse of the Public Order Act to stifle civil society and opposition political activities. Those youth activists must be released immediately and unconditionally because they have violated no law, instead the police and those issued orders are the very complicit violating the constitutionally guaranteed rights of[Read More…]
Ex-Newspaper Editor To Receive Award For Services To Gambian Media
One of Gambia’s most persecuted journalists during the previous APRC regime of President Yahya Jammeh is to be honored today for his contributions to the development of Gambian media. Alagi Yorro Jallow, former managing editor and founder of The Independent, the Gambia’s only private newspaper before it was banned by[Read More…]
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