(JollofNews) – The Disease Control and Elimination Theme of MRC Unit the Gambia has been awarded a Grand Challenge Exploration grant, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to pursue an innovative global health and development research project using medical-detection dogs to identify people with malaria parasites.[Read More…]
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Tourism: Gambling On Gambia
(JollofNews) – As we shivered in the drab weather, the question in the Nichol house was: ‘Where do we go for some guaranteed sunshine without crossing half the planet?’ A few years ago, the answer may have been Egypt or Tunisia. But due to recent attacks at tourist resorts and[Read More…]
Gambia’s Higher Education Minister Removed
(JollofNews) -President Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia has sacked the country’s minister of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology, Dr. Aboubacar Senghore. Dr Senghore, 48, was sent packing from his office on Monday afternoon. No reasons were given for his re moval, but a statement from the President’s Office said[Read More…]
Gambia: Opposition Activist’s Cause Of Death Revealed
(JollofNews) – A Gambian opposition activist who lost his life in state custody in April died as a result of shortness of breath, or breathlessness, medical records show. Ebrima Solo Sandeng, organising secretary of the main opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) died on 15th April 2016 less than 24 hours[Read More…]
Open Letter To The Grand Panjandrum
(JollofNews) – You grand panjandrum. You call yourselves our saviors, yet seek to butcher our souls. You plant your malice-soled boots on our throats, yet claim to give us voices. You seek to cut our tongues with machetes of greed yet proclaim that you are teaching us the speech of[Read More…]
Gambia: Where Is Solo Sandeng?
(JollofNews) – I find it unacceptable that after a complaint with the Gambian courts, the shameful Jammeh tyranny finally admitted to snatching the man’s life on broad-day light. As one of the thinkers once said, if people are not honest with the little things, they will not be honest with[Read More…]
Gambia: 9 Former Senior Civil Servants, Businessman Sacked, Remanded
(JollofNews) – Authorities in the Gambia have filed criminal charges again nine former senior government officials and a local businessman who were arrested some days ago as part of ongoing investigations into alleged corruption at the state-owned Gambia National Petroleum Company (GNPC). Sira Wally Ndow Njie, who was the first[Read More…]
Gambia: Mr Jammeh, Let The UDP Leadership Go
(JollofNews) – Mr President, last night as I was scuffing a 12 inch vegetarian pizza I ordered from my local takeaway shop, a friend of mine sent me a picture of the leadership of the opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) being escorted in handcuffs to a waiting prison van. As[Read More…]
Gambia Admits Opposition Activist’s Death In Custody
(JollofNews) – A Gambian opposition activist who led April’s demonstration against the regime of President Yahya Jammeh died during enhanced interrogation by security officials, Saihou Omar Jeng, director of operations at the Gambia’s feared National Intelligence Agency reveals. Ebrima Solo Sandeng, organising secretary of the main opposition United Democratic Party[Read More…]
Gambian Sentenced To Life In Austria For Murder
(JollofNews) – A Gambian asylum seeker has been jailed for life after being found guilty of murdering an American au-pair he met on a couch-surfing website in Austria. The man – who under Austrian law can only be identified as Abdou I – was living illegally in the country when[Read More…]
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