(JollofNews) – Police in the Gambia have filed criminal charges against a group of private taxi drivers who were detained for staging a peaceful protest against the reduction of fares in the country. Sixty taxi drivers were arrested, according to a spokesman of the Gambia’s Police Force, Foday Conta. He[Read More…]
Author: Abdoulie John
Gambia: Immigration Boss Justifies Removal Of ‘Homeless’ Senegalese Children
(JollofNews) – Gambia’s Immigration Chief Buba Sanyang has defended the removal of ‘homeless’ Senegalese children from the tiny West African nation. “Fifty seven youngters ranging in age from 11 to 16 years were taken to the border with Senegal,” Buba Sanyang told this reporter in an exclusive interview. He said the[Read More…]
Gambia: Authorities Urged To Introduce Community Policing To Combat Banditry
(JollofNews) – Barely two weeks after a group of armed robbers stormed Hajo Jarra Pharmacy in Essau Village, North Bank Region, and got away with more than D16,000, calls are intensifying for authorities to embark on community-oriented policing to contain the menace. The attack left one Modou Bah seriously wounded,[Read More…]
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