One of Gambia’s most persecuted journalists during the previous APRC regime of President Yahya Jammeh has opened up about his experiences in the hands of the country’s feared National Intelligence Agency (NIA). Alagi Yorro Jallow, former managing editor and founder of the private newspaper, The Independent, before it was banned[Read More…]
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Man Loses Fight Against Death Sentence For Killing Brother Over Dinner
A Gambian brother who killed his brother following an argument over food has lost his fight against death sentence. Bakary Kanyi of Farafenni stabbed Lamin Camara with a broken bottle in December 2009 after a squabble about him eating food his bare hand. According court documents, the Camara Kunda family[Read More…]
Gambia: How Baba Jobe Was Used And Dumped By Yahya Jammeh (Part one)
In the wake of the 22nd July military coup that brought Yahya Jammeh and his AFPRC/APRC government to power in 1994, the economic life of the once prosperous West African country began to sink deep and deeper into the wide blue sea prompting fears that the junta would not be[Read More…]