A new online Gambian news website which intends to bring to the public space the voice of the poor has been launched. Founded by Ebrima Papa Colley, a former reporter and cartoonist with the Gambia Daily Observer now based in the US, forGambia.com will serve as a news platform for[Read More…]
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New York Letter With Alagi Yorro Jallow: Gambia: Justice Minister Is Not A Worthy Recipient Of Press Hero Award
It is easy enough to find absurdities in any list of formal awards–e.g., Pearl Buck and William Golding won the Nobel Prize, while Tolstoy, Joyce, and Proust did not–but, with the Oscars, absurdity has been more the rule than the exception. Yet the Gambia Press Union has decided that what[Read More…]
Two Ghanaian journalists arrested and interrogated, one allegedly tortured in custody
Ghana’s Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice should immediately launch an independent investigation into the arrests of Modern Ghana editor Emmanuel Ajarfor Abugri and reporter Emmanuel Yeboah Britwum and security forces’ alleged torture of Ajarfor, and hold those responsible to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On[Read More…]
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